Before revision: (the NPI anywhere is used in the environment of the preceding negative not) Note that the alternative form with the double negative, *I was not going nowhere , is ungrammatical in the standard language, although such forms are used in some colloquial English, and parallel the constructions used in certain other languages which have negative concord.
After revision: (the NPI anywhere is used in the environment of the preceding negative not) Note that double-negative constructions like I was not going nowhere take on an opposing meaning in formal usage, but that this is not necessarily the case in colloquial contexts and in various s, which parallels other languages which have negative concord.