Comment Re:Some pedants are more pedantic than others... (Score 1) 667
As per the sibling post, and quoting from a cousin post of mine:
It's called Negative Agreement.
"I don't have any books" is ok, but "*I have any books" is wrong.
"I didn't go anywhere" is ok, but "*I went anywhere" is wrong.
Replacing "any" with "no" to form Negative Agreement doesn't actually change the state of the negation. It just changes the term used to construct Negative Agreement.