Verbs of implicit negation in Chinese, which contain latent negative operators, can take negative polarity items. Their implicit negation can be externalized through complements. The speaker, in his production of the utterance, externalizes the implicit negation through cryptanalysis and shifts the focus of attention by word stress, achieving negation shift. Verbs of implicit negation can cause negative concord, which is referred to as double syntactic negation expressing a single syntactic negation. The externalization of implicit negation is context-dependent. As opposed to affirmative compl...
