Negation in epistemic small clauses

Natural languages dispose of two ways of realizing syntactic negation: (1) functional projection in the extended projection of the verb (NegP); (2) “adverbial” negation in small clauses and nominals, adjoined to AP and NP, respectively. Relevant evidedence concernc the co-occurrences of negation and negative adverbs, scope phenomena, and phonological properties of Italian non. A difference between Italian/French and English concerning the scope of negation in small clauses is traced back to LF-preposition stranding. With respect to licensing of negative quantifiers in simple and Neg-raising contexts, full clauses and small clauses display the same pattern. The Neg-criterion is claimed to also apply in small clauses, under dynamic agreement