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Originally posted by PlatinumPimp
wow, you opened the French dictionary on the letter P? 
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Just to fucking shut you up, here is a copy of a paper I presented a ferw years ago which I am revising for publication. My real name has been deleted (and replaced by my nick). Here's a quote from a section dealing with NOT/PAS:
1.1 Adverb Placement
The placement of adverbs, relative to the verbal head, has long been regarded as a diagnostic for verb movement (e.g., Pollock 1989, Chomsky 1991). Assuming that adverbs occupy fixed positions in the syntax, it has been proposed that contrasts such as the one in (2) between English and French arise from the fact that French main verbs raise overtly to T, crossing the adverb, while English main verbs remain in situ within the VP.
(2) a. *John kisses often Mary.
b. Jean embrasse souvent Marie.
c. John often kisses Mary.
d. *Jean souvent embrasse Marie.
In this section, I will attempt to show how this diagnostic may be used to identify instances of short movement to Pr. The discussion will center primarily on (i) the distribution of a certain class of strictly VP licensed manner adverbs, and (ii) the position of adverbs in the pseudo-passive construction.
http://www.boobstand.com/verbmovement.pdf