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Negatives

Although there are many ways to saynoinEnglishevenwhenappearingto
sayyes,grammatically we form the negative usingno, not,andnever.Tech-
nically, these words are adverbials, but phrase-structure grammar analyzes
them as negation markers in the Aux, as the following phrase-structure rule
shows:

AuxÆtense (neg) (DO) (M) (prog) (perf)

negÆ

no

not

never

ì

í

ï

î

ï

ü

ý

ï

þ

ï

An interesting feature of the negative is that it triggersDo Supportin the
verb phrase of simple active sentences. Consider these examples:

71. Fred kissed Macarena.
    71a. Freddid notkiss Macarena.

152 CHAPTER 4

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