In Early Modern English, verbal negation was commonly expressed by the addition of not directly after a lexical verb, a construction which subsequently underwent a pronounced decline in frequency as part of broader changes in verbal syntax. Even after the rise of the auxiliary do, however, constructions with the same surface form as the earlier pattern have continued to be used as a stylistically marked alternative. Data from the Hansard Corpus are presented here to show an increase in the frequency of these constructions since the mid twentieth century. The syntactic environments in which contemporary postverbal negation occurs are compared to the patterns existing in Early Modern English, and evaluated in the light of trends within constituent negation. The interpretation proposed is that a lexical split has occurred to produce two separate lexemes of the form not, with different syntactic properties. Postverbal negation would thus occur in Present-day English when speakers choose to make use of the new lexeme.

中文翻译：

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后动词否定和 not 的词汇分裂

在早期现代英语中，口头否定通常通过添加不是直接在词汇动词之后，该结构随后经历了频率显着下降，作为更广泛的口头句法变化的一部分。即使在辅助崛起之后做然而，具有与早期图案相同表面形式的结构继续被用作风格标记的替代品。数据来自议事录语料库在这里展示，以显示自 20 世纪中叶以来这些建筑的频率有所增加。将当代后动词否定发生的句法环境与早期现代英语中存在的模式进行比较，并根据成分否定的趋势进行评估。提出的解释是发生了词汇分裂以产生以下形式的两个单独的词位不是，具有不同的句法属性。因此，当说话者选择使用新词位时，现代英语中会出现词后否定。