Research on complementizer selection has shown that the presence of a negative particle in a subordinate complement clause influences complement choice, leading to a relatively higher proportion of finite complementation patterns by increasing the complexity of the syntactic environment. Studies have also shown that different types of negation, namely not- and no-negation, increase the tendency towards more explicit complementation options (Rohdenburg 2015). The current study focuses on the effect of not- and no-negation on the complementation profile of the verb regret, which allows variation between finite that/zero-complement clauses and nonfinite (S) -ing clauses. The GloWbE corpus was used to create a data set of more than 4,000 examples from 16 varieties of English. The results of the analysis support previous findings that the presence of a negative marker in the complement clause increases the preference for finite patterns, especially in L2 varieties of English. However, contrary to the expectations of this study, no-negation was found to have a stronger effect on complement choice than not-negation.

补语选择的研究表明，从属补语从句中是否存在否定助词会影响补语的选择，通过增加句法环境的复杂性，导致有限补语模式的比例相对较高。研究还表明，不同类型的否定，即非否定和非否定，增加了更明确的补充选项的趋势（Rohdenburg 2015）。目前的研究集中于非否定和非否定对动词后悔补语的影响，它允许有限的那个/零补语从句和非有限的(S) - ing之间的变化。条款。GloWbE 语料库用于创建一个包含 16 种英语的 4,000 多个示例的数据集。分析结果支持先前的发现，即补语从句中存在否定标记会增加对有限模式的偏好，尤其是在 L2 英语变体中。然而，与本研究的预期相反，发现非否定对补体选择的影响比非否定更大。