We bring under careful examination their distribution, scope of negation and possible syntactic interpretation, which may also give play to their semantics and pragmatics, the two indispensable components of any linguistic studies.

• 本文运用传统语法与生成语法理论，对中英文中两个最重要的否定词“不”和“not”在线性分布、否定辖域和句子否定中所表现出的句法特征进行描写、对比和分析，以期对中英文中否定现象及普遍语法有更深入的理解。