Syntactic function vt{NEG}+V.adN

transitive negation verb with its verbal object, this phrase modifying a nominal

One might object that this is not a meaning of bu4 不 but only a grammatical frame it can enter. The reason why such features are listed in SSC is simply to make them conveniently retrievable. Moreover, of course, it does remain an arguable point of view that "un-" is an important separate meaning of a negation.


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