This paper proposes an analysis of Mandarin Chinese negation in which bu 'not' is an adverb in Spec,AuxP or Spec,VP which may occur only with unbounded aspectual situations and which must cliticize to ...

The findings are amenable to the account advanced by Thornton & Tesan (2013), who contend that children's grammars are initially restricted to adverbial negation. Children's nontarget productions with ...