Timeline for でも followed by が?
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| Dec 2, 2013 at 11:21 | comment | added | user1478 | It's just an explanation I read. I don't know whether it's the only explanation or even the best one. I think it's motivated by the desire to say "no particles attach to も" is universally true. | |
| Dec 2, 2013 at 11:20 | history | edited | Tim | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 2, 2013 at 11:19 | comment | added | Tim | I did not know that - perhaps I should have followed your link. It still seems to be one of those colloquial uses that feel natural to native speaker even though they can't explain them. | |
| Dec 2, 2013 at 11:15 | comment | added | user1478 | What I learned for 誰も is that in positive sentences 誰も acts like a single lexical word, which allows it to be marked with が. In negative sentences, it acts like 誰 plus the particle も, so it can't be marked with が because you can't add が to も. I wonder whether this explanation works for 誰でもが. | |
| Dec 2, 2013 at 11:13 | history | answered | Tim | CC BY-SA 3.0 |