Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgment -- Part I: Aims and background -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical background: Nanosyntax -- Part II: The internal structure of negative markers -- 3. Classification of negative markers -- 4. The crosslinguistic morphosyntax of negative markers -- 5. The internal syntax of a negative marker -- Part III: Negative markers and their clausal syntax in English and French -- 6. The external syntax of negative markers in English -- 7. Diachronic change in French -- Part IV: Remaining issues -- 8. Other syntactic perspectives on negation -- 9. Semantics -- 10. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index