Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations of grammatical terms -- Abbreviations of language names -- Abbreviations of authors and texts -- 0. Introduction -- Part I: The diachronic and areal perspective -- 1. Types of negation in the Romance languages -- 2. The diachronic perspective -- 3. Word order and negation -- 4. The areal perspective -- Part II: The analysis of the Questionnaire -- Foreword -- 5. Sentence and phrase negation -- 6. Quantifier systems -- 7. Morphological typology of negative quantifiers -- 8. The syntax of negative quantifiers -- 9. 'Raising' -- 10. Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Appendix -- Index of languages -- Index of authors