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How have Classical Chinese negative elements (e.g. 否、無) preserved in dialects?
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ipsi() -

As part of my study of Classical Chinese, I'm looking into how the various negative elements in
Classical Chinese (e.g. 不、非、否、弗、莫、未、勿、etc) have been preserved in
Chinese dialects. This is not exactly an in-depth or detailed essay. I'm just looking for a brief
overview, basically. Word length is 1500 words, and I'm also trying to incorporate something about
how they're still used in public signs and the like, and why (which is getting posted to another
topic elsewhere). This only relates to the use of negative elements, other bits are only going to
be included if they're relevant.

If anyone can give me any help, that would be great. It's also due Friday... (I've been slack).
Suggested readings would be great too.

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ipsi() -

It's a little depressing that this is the top result on Google for this sort of thing.

roddy -

On public signs - about 1,000 or so of the photos on signese.com are searchable, so you could find
examples of usage that way - ie for 无.

it's a start

ipsi() -

Thanks - I hadn't realised some were searchable .

Also, this may help some people (if they ever end up with the same question):

https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/dsp.../1/349_016.pdf - it's an old discussion (with toneless
romanisation only ), discussing some aspects of negation in Mandarin, Cantonese, and Taiwanese,
which is going to help me a bit.

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