[CWB] Strange problem with a query

[Josep M. Fontana]

Hi Stefan,
>> When I enter the query I get the following error:
>>
>> "Warning:
>>     ``Keep Ranges'' only allowed when
>> querying subcorpora (ignored)
> That's because you added an exclamation mark "!", which executes a subquery as a filter in CQP syntax (internally referred to as the "keep ranges" flag).
>
>>> [pos="VV.*"][pos="DT."]? [pos="AV0"]? [pos="AJ.*"]* [pos="N.*"] [pos="AJ.*"][(pos="N.*")|(pos="PR.*")|(pos="TO0")]! within s;
> Why did you put the exclamation mark if you're not running a subquery?

OK, I thought '!' was the boolean operator for NOT. The reason I 
constructed the search like this is that I wanted to filter out results 
where the adjective was followed by either a noun, a preposition or the 
infinitive marker 'to'. Having a boolean operator '|' with these three 
categories and then the '!' outside the brackets seemed to be the most 
logical way to accomplish that. In principle this should give you NOT 
(adjective or preposition or infinitive marker), shouldn't it? I must 
sound stupid but I cannot think of any other way to do this except for 
having a negative operator with scope over a choice between these three 
categories.





>
> Best
> Stefan
>
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