Book contents
- The Evolution of Chinese Grammar
- The Evolution of Chinese Grammar
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Conventions Used in the Examples
- Abbreviations and Symbols
- 1 Some Preliminaries
- 2 Copular Word and Construction
- 3 Focus and Wh- Words
- 4 Serial Verb Construction
- 5 Disyllabification
- 6 Resultative Construction
- 7 Information Structure
- 8 The Passive Construction
- 9 The Disposal Construction
- 10 Verb Copying and Reduplication
- 11 The Comparative Construction
- 12 The Ditransitive Construction
- 13 Aspect and Tense
- 14 Negation
- 15 The Boundedness of the Predicate
- 16 Classifiers
- 17 Demonstratives from Classifiers
- 18 Distal Demonstratives from Phonological Derivation
- 19 Pronouns, Plurals, and Diminutives
- 20 Structural Particles
- 21 Word Order and Relative Clauses
- 22 Conclusions
- References
- Primary Sources of Texts
- Index
14 - Negation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 March 2023
Book contents
- The Evolution of Chinese Grammar
- The Evolution of Chinese Grammar
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Conventions Used in the Examples
- Abbreviations and Symbols
- 1 Some Preliminaries
- 2 Copular Word and Construction
- 3 Focus and Wh- Words
- 4 Serial Verb Construction
- 5 Disyllabification
- 6 Resultative Construction
- 7 Information Structure
- 8 The Passive Construction
- 9 The Disposal Construction
- 10 Verb Copying and Reduplication
- 11 The Comparative Construction
- 12 The Ditransitive Construction
- 13 Aspect and Tense
- 14 Negation
- 15 The Boundedness of the Predicate
- 16 Classifiers
- 17 Demonstratives from Classifiers
- 18 Distal Demonstratives from Phonological Derivation
- 19 Pronouns, Plurals, and Diminutives
- 20 Structural Particles
- 21 Word Order and Relative Clauses
- 22 Conclusions
- References
- Primary Sources of Texts
- Index
Summary
Negative systems have historically undergone several major changes that were caused by the overall properties of the grammatical system in particular periods. The functions of negatives in any period had to be consonant with the predicate structure, especially the structure of verbal predicates. This chapter addresses the developments of negatives that are most relevant to the establishment of the negative system of Contemporary Chinese rather than exhaustively surveying all negatives in history.
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- The Evolution of Chinese Grammar , pp. 368 - 385Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023