I-IV -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Five ways of saying no: the development of sentential negation in English in a Government and Binding perspective -- English negation from an interactional perspective -- On Negative Raising in the history of English -- Negative Concord and Verb Projection Raising in Old English and West Flemish -- Multiple negation in Middle English verse -- Sentential negation and clause structure in Old English -- The facts and nothing but: the (non-)grammaticalisation of negative exclusives in English -- Isn't it? or is it not? On the order of postverbal subject and negative particle in the history of English -- The origin and development of the "Neg ... neither" construction: a case of grammaticalisation -- Affixal and non-affixal negation - a case of stable variation over time? -- On the scope of Negative Concord -- On expletive negation with adversative predicates in the history of English -- Index -- 335-336