On the Position of Negation: The Structure < no + Participle >
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https://doi.org/10.20420/Phil.Can.2024.669Keywords:
negation, verbal periphrases, participles, negative events, statesAbstract
This paper studies the structure in which negation precedes a participle, following the scheme <no + participle>; specifically, we establish the conditions under which that sequence is possible. We argue that there are two requirements that determine the possibility of having that construction: on the one hand, the participle must contain verbal structure and, specifically, the projection corresponding to the causative subevent; on the other hand, negation must not interfere between the heads that form the participle. The second condition allows us to understand why <no + participle> is possible in the nominal domain, but not in verbal periphrases. The first one accounts for the fact that not all participial forms that modify a noun accept the anteposition of no.
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