Finally, inflectional prefixes ( which Young & Morgan call " paradigmatic prefixes " ) are affixed to the base & mdash; producing a complete verb.
2.
Originally, the negative verb inflected as a more complete verb : it had both present and past tense, and possibly participles and other moods as well.
3.
If it is assumed that the antecedent to the ellipsis is to be a complete verb phrase, then the only possible antecedent appears to be the VP in bold.