本书旨在建立一种分析方法，为由否定引起的现代汉语中表面上似不关联的现象找出内在联系。书中着重探讨了否定与动词前和动词后附加语以及否定与体之间的相互联系。还论述并揭示了一些现代汉语研究中处于核心地位的理论问题，如词序、话题结构、时态、动词前附加语的句法限制等。

本书旨在建立一种分析方法，为由否定引起的现代汉语中表面上似不关联的现象找出内在联系。书中着重探讨了否定与动词前和动词后附加语以及否定与体之间的相互联系。作者认为单纯从句法结构角度不能够解释现代汉语否定现象，必须考虑现代汉语否定标记独特的体特征，进而提出“B原则”和“M原则”。这两个原则释了否定与体及否定与动词后附加语之间的关系，并对探讨诸如否定与情态间关系等问题也具深远影响。本书还论述并揭示了一些现代汉语研究中处于核心地位的理论问题，如词序、话题结构、时态、动词前附加语的句法限制等。

CHAPTER 1 Functional Projection Analysis of Chinese Clause Structure

 1.0 IntroduCtion

 1.1 Word Order Facts of Chinese

 1.2 Functional Categories

1.2.1 Topic projection

1.2.2 Tense projection

1.2.3 Aspect projection

1.2.4 Predication projection

 1.3 Hierarchy among TopP，TP，AspP and PrP

 1.4 An Account 0f word Order Facts

 1.5 Summary

CHAPTER 2 The NegP Hypothesis and Its Extension to Chinese

 2.0 Introduction

 2.1 Syntactic Properties of Negation in Mandarin Chinese

2.1.1 The negative marker bu

2.1.2 The negative marker mei

 2.2 The NegP Hypothesis

2.2.1 French and English

2.2.2 Turkish and Swedish

2.2.3 Italian and Piedmontese

2.2.4 West F1emish

 2.3 Difficulties with the NegP Hypothesis in Mandar in Chinese

 2.4 Summary

CHAPTER 3 Negation and Preverbal Adjuncts

 3.0 Introduction

 3.1 Distribution of Preverbal Aajuncts

3.1.1 Manner adjuncts

3.1.2 PP aajuncts

3.1.3 Temporal adjuncts

3.1.4 Locative adjuncts

3.1.5 Classifiction of preverbal adjuncts

 3.2 Structure of Preverbal Adjuncts

3.2.1 Scope Princir，le

3.2.2 Ernst's analysis

3.2.3 An alternative：Gen-adt Constraint

 3.3 Interaction between Negation and Preverbal Adjuncts

3.3.1 Issues to be considered

3.3.2 The NegP account

 3.4 No NegP：bu under Pr'

 3.5 Summary

CHAPTER 4 Negation and Postverbal Adjuncts

 4.0 Introduction

 4.1 Properties of Postverbal Adiuncts

4.1.1 Frequency and duration expressions

4.1.2 Descriptive and resultative expressions

4.1.3 Postverbal prepositional phrases

 4.2 Structure of Postverbal Adjuncts

4.2.1 Li's Case Theory account

4.2.2 An alternative analysis

 4.3 Issues of Negation and Postverbal Adjuncts

4.3.1 Huang's Principle P

4.3.2 Ernst's morphological approach

 4.4 Towards a Solution

 4.5 Summary

CHAPTER 5 Negation and Aspect：the Issue

 5.0 Introduction

 5.1 The Two-component System of Aspect

 5.2 Situation Types in Chinese

5.2.1 Preliminaries

5.2.2 States

5.2.3 Activities

5.2.4 Accomplishments

5.2.5 Achievements

 5.3 Aspectual Perspectives in Chinese

5.3.1 Preliminaries

5.3.2 Perfective le

5.3.3 Perfective guo

5.3.4 Imperfective zai

5.3.5 Imperfective zhe

 5.4 Interaction Between Negation and Aspect

5.4.1 The issue

 5.5 Summary

CHAPTER 6 Negation and Aspect：Further Implications

 6.0 Introduction

 6.1 BU and Aspect

6.1.1 The argument：bu and perfective le

6.1.2 Principle B and aspectual perspectives

 6.2 Mei and Aspect

6.2.1 The argument：mei(you)and perfective le

6.2.2 Principle M and aspectual perspectives

 6.3 Postverbal Adjuncts Revisited

 6.4 Further Significance of Two Principles

6.4.1 Derivations of volitional interpretations

6.4.2 Modal auxiliary verbs

6.4.3 Relation with tense

 6.5 Summary

CHAPTER 7 Structural Analysis of Negation in Chinese

 7.0 IntroduCtion

 7.1 Against NegP in Chinese

7.1.1 Preverbal adjuncts

7.1.2 Modals

7.1.3 SOV structures

7.1.4 Negative Polarity Items

7.1.5 Negative quantifiers

7.1.6 Co-occurrence of bu and mei

 7.2 A Solution：bu under X'，mei Base-generated on you under Asp 0

7.2.1 Preverbal adiuncts

7.2.2 Aspectual markers

7.2.3 Modals

7.2.4 SOV structures

7.2.5 Negative Polarity Items

7.2.6 Negative quantifiers

7.2.7 Co-occurrence of mei and bu

 7.3 Summary

CONCLUSION

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