<HTML><BODY><br><br><br><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Dear colleagues,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">What do we know, cross-language, about syntactic restrictions on the “young” Perfect? In particular, are we aware of languages where Perfect is incompatible with negation? I.e., it would be replaced by a Simple Past form in the context of negation.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span>Thank you very much,</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span>Sergey Loesov</p><br></BODY></HTML>