ABSTRACT: This paper examines the negation system of Gaozhou Yue, an under-documented and under-studied Yue variety. The discussion takes the official documentation of the variety as a starting point, which reports two negators mau5 and mau5 jau5 to be equivalent to Mandarin méi ( yǒu ) and can appear interchangeably. Then based on systematic acceptability judgment data and field-recorded production data, the paper compares Gaozhou Yue and Mandarin negators and argues that (i) mau5 is resemblant to méi ( yǒu ) only in terms of viewpoint aspectual restrictions but has a much broader application where situation aspect is concerned; and (ii) mau5 and mau5 jau5 are only interchangeable in negative existential and negative possessive constructions, together with the fact that mau5 jau5 is hardly acceptable in verbal negation, these demonstrate that mau5 jau5 is not a standard negator. The empirical findings from this comparative study highlights that aspectual restriction still happens in a Chinese variety with only one standard negator. The conclusion reopens discussion on the negation-aspect interaction in Chinese varieties and points the discussion towards a more typologically generalisable formal explanation. 摘要: 摘要 本文旨在探讨高州粤语的否定系统。高州粤语是一个未受广泛关注及 纪录的粤语变体。文章先从官方县志的描述启首，县志中指高州粤语 有两个与普通话"没有"相通并能互相交替使用的否定词——"冇" mau5 和"冇有" mau5 jau5 。但根据田野考察中收集的日常沟通语料 和句子语法判断结果，再比较高州粤语和普通话后，本文做出以下两 项分析。一、"冇"和"没有"在时点体的限制方面的确相似，但在 情状体方面"冇"并无普通话"没有"的限制。二、"冇"和"冇有" 只在存在否定式和领属否定式中能交替使用，而且"冇有"并不能出 现在一般句子否定式，证明"冇有"其实并不是标准否定词。文中的 例证和分析说明在汉语语系当中，尽管只有一个标准否定词也会出现 时态限制。因此，本文对高州粤语的否定系统分析亦有助于拓展对汉 语否定式与时态之间互动的研究。
Cherry Chit-Yu Lam (Thu,) studied this question.