English negation

English negates a declarative verbal clause with the particle not, contracted n't, placed after the first auxiliary: chris is not dancing. A clause in a simple tense has no auxiliary, and its negative is built on do, which carries the tense and agreement while the lexical verb is bare: chris does not dance. The same periphrasis serves in the affirmative for emphasis, chris does dance, so a simple tense has two affirmatives, plain and emphatic, and one negative. Miestamo's examples are rows of Data.Examples.Miestamo2005.

References

• [Mie05]

def English.Negation.not : Negation.Marker

not, the standard negator.

Equations

• English.Negation.not = { pieces := [[Morphology.Morph.free "not"]] }

def English.Negation.nt : Negation.Marker

n't, the contracted negator, an enclitic on the auxiliary.

Equations

• English.Negation.nt = { pieces := [[Morphology.Morph.encl "n't"]] }

def English.Negation.standard : List Negation.Marker

The standard negators.

Equations

• English.Negation.standard = [English.Negation.not, English.Negation.nt]