Prohibition:negative imperatives and the parametric typology of negation
A number of researchers have offered hypotheses about the syntactic relationship between Tense and Negation. Zanuttini 1996, for example, has argued that the head NEG may only occur in the presence of Tense. This paper examines data on negation in 15 languages which has been collected in an ongoing typological research project, PARATYP. The study focuses on the difference between prohibitive and n
