Can 〜てなんかいない contract to 〜てなんかない?


In [this answer](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/12605/1478), nkjt gives
the following example of **なんか** insertion:

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    　　　　待ってないんだから　→　待って **なんか** ないんだから
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On the left-hand side, it appears that 〜ていない is contracted to 〜てない. This is
very common, of course, but as I understand it, contractions of いる to る **only
happen after 〜て** , as in the following examples:

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    　　　　持っている　　→　持ってる
    　　　　持っていない　→　持ってない
    　　　　持っています　→　持ってます
    
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In the example with **なんか** inserted, it seems that いない is contracted to ない,
even though it follows something other than 〜て!

**Is this possible?**

If it is, I'm forced to wonder about the いません version, as well:

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    　　　　持っていない　　→　持って **なんか** ない
    　　　　持っていません　→　持って **なんか** ません
[/code]

If they _are_ acceptable, how do you explain it? Is my "only after 〜て" rule
incorrect?




～てなんかない is a valid contraction of ～てなんかいない in spoken Japanese. I personally
hear ～てなんかません as unnatural, but a Google search suggests that this is also
technically valid, though significantly less common. (Incidentally, I find it
a bit humorous that the seemingly overwhelming majority of results for
"てなんかない" are 「泣いてなんかない」.)

I would say that your intuition that いない can only contract to ない after ～て is
very close, and possibly exactly right... but it's likely not the ～て, but
rather that it's being used as a kind of helper to another verb, which even
after inserting なんか, is still the case. That's just my own guess, though.




～てなんかない is a valid contraction of ～てなんかいない in spoken Japanese. I personally
hear ～てなんかません as unnatural, but a Google search suggests that this is also
technically valid, though significantly less common. (Incidentally, I find it
a bit humorous that the seemingly overwhelming majority of results for
"てなんかない" are 「泣いてなんかない」.)

I would say that your intuition that いない can only contract to ない after ～て is
very close, and possibly exactly right... but it's likely not the ～て, but
rather that it's being used as a kind of helper to another verb, which even
after inserting なんか, is still the case. That's just my own guess, though.

