Benjamin Bruening
List of John Benjamins publications in which Benjamin Bruening is involved.
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2025 A simpler analysis of English negation (and the Bulgarian definite marker) Linguistic Variation: Online-First Articles | Article
I propose a maximally simple analysis of English negation in which both not and n’t are adjuncts. Not is a phrasal adjunct that can attach to any category, while n’t is a head adjunct that strictly selects the category AuxV. I show that this proposal captures all the facts of English negation,… read more