Negation in Chinese
汉语中的否定结构
Shou-hsin Teng 邓守信

Abstract 摘要
Negation is an important, albeit complex, area of linguistic research, but unfortunately very little effort has been made in Chinese linguistics along this line, especially in the transformational framework. The more sophisticated linguistic model of generative semantics has made possible systematic studies in the interplay between negation and other phenomena such as adverbs and (higher) predicates. This paper assumes the recent important discoveries in generative semantics and studies the syntactic characteristics of negation in Chinese.