Negation as a predictor of clausal complement choice in World Englishes

Research on complementizer selection has shown that the presence of a negative particle in subordinate complement clause influences choice, leading to relatively higher proportion finite complementation patterns by increasing complexity syntactic environment. Studies have also different types negation, namely not - and no -negation, increase tendency towards more explicit options (Rohdenburg 2015). The current study focuses effect -negation profile verb regret , which allows variation between /zero-complement clauses nonfinite (S) ing clauses. GloWbE corpus was used create data set than 4,000 examples from 16 varieties English. results analysis support previous findings marker increases preference for patterns, especially L2 However, contrary expectations this study, found stronger choice -negation.