If you consider

2) He is not lucky.

and

3) He is unlucky.

to be functionally identical, would you analyze them differently?


>In the following pair of sentences:
>
>1)  He is lucky.
>2)  He is not lucky.
>
>Would you consider this an example of verb negation or noun negation, and
>why?  In other words, does the adverb modify the linking verb or the subject
>complement?
>
>Diane

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Paul T. Wilson                                   [log in to unmask]
Professor of Reading                   Western Michigan University

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