Southern Min Post-verbal Negation

Carrie Gillon, Hui-Ling Yang

Abstract


In this paper, we examine the structure of Southern Min (SM) post-verbal negation. Contra Wang (2008), we analyze postverbal negation as an instance of a Serial Verb Construction (SVC), rather than a Resultative Verb Construction (RVC), based on a comparison between the behavior of RVCs and SVCs in SM.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3765/exabs.v0i0.522