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As for the 28 examples of SEL, on the other hand, nine of them occur
in the middle of lines, and not in rhyme. Nevertheless, the
phenomenon is still minor in SEL as well, at least in contrast to the
large number of the other examples of not that are observed in the
text.
As discussed in the present section, ne, ne ... not, and not
present some variants in terms of the locations of the adverbs p
and not. Irregular examples of the adverb ne are extremely rare,
however. Some examples illustrate the case in which ne has failed to
move forward or backward despite the movement of the finite verb,
by which the finite verb separates itself from the subject.
Furthermore, some other examples reveal the case in which ne
precedes the whole verbal compound instead of the finite verb within
the compound. All in all, however, irregular positioning of the
adverb ne is confined to some minor cases.
By contrast, the locations of the adverb not are much more fluid.
The positioning of not before the finite verb, for example, is fairly
common. This is perhaps much more frequently attested in ME than
has been pointed out to date, although most examples in the sample
are related to the exigency of rhyme, as in early MnE. Another
feature to be noted with not is its separation from the finite verb.
This is most typically caused by the intervention of a pronominal
object. The phenomenon is also more popular in ME than has thus
far been noted in existing studies, and may not be so much
conditioned by the exigency of rhyme. There are a large number of
examples of this type as against only a restricted number of
counterexamples. The separation also occurs when not manifests
itself after the verbal compound, and not after the finite verb within
the compound. This phenomenon is, however, much more limited than
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