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Can follow a finite auxiliary to negate a sentence, but not a finite verb.
I should not have said that.
* I not slept well last night.
Can precede any major phrase for so-called constituent negation.
NP: Pat read not [NP: this book] but the other one.
VP: Chris is likely not [VP: to get the scholarship]
PP: Sandy put the book not [PP: on the shelf] but next to it.
Forms: not, n't (when cliticised to an auxiliary)

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Gert: Created page with "Can follow a finite auxiliary to negate a sentence, but not a finite verb. I should not have said that. * I not slept well last night. Can precede any major phrase for so-call..."