It has been implicitly and explicitly (Kim and Sag 2002) claimed that the English constituent negation not adjoins to an XP that it modifies. In this article I argue against such a claim. I argue that English constituent negation forms a base-generated X0-adjunction structure with an X0 that it cooccurs with. I first show that X0-adjunction and XP-adjunction differ from each other with respect to c-command domain and constituency, given Kayne's (1994) definition of c-command. I then show that the scope interaction between not and a VP-adjunct, the movement of not plus an XP that it cooccurs with, and the movement and the deletion of the XP support X0-adjunction, not XP-adjunction, as the structure of constituent negation in English.
abstract
1.Introduction
2.V-adjunction vs VP-dajunction
3.For V-adjunction
4.Summary and concluding remarks
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