| Abstract | 第1-6页 |
| Part Ⅰ Introduction | 第6-13页 |
| ·A Folk View of Negation | 第6-9页 |
| ·A linguistic review of negation and layout | 第9-12页 |
| ·Overview of the paper | 第12-13页 |
| Part Ⅱ Scope and focus of negation | 第13-24页 |
| ·Internal and external negation | 第14页 |
| ·Scope of negation | 第14-19页 |
| ·Quirk et al's version and its weakness | 第14-17页 |
| ·Others' understanding of the scope of the negation | 第17-19页 |
| ·Focus of negation | 第19-24页 |
| ·Definition of the focus of the negation | 第19-20页 |
| ·Classification of the focus | 第20-21页 |
| ·The Negation and the Focus (association with focus) | 第21-24页 |
| Part Ⅲ Negation of uni-polar lexical items | 第24-40页 |
| ·Division of lexical items | 第24-25页 |
| ·Negation of uni-polar items | 第25-36页 |
| ·Binary truth-value of propositions | 第25-28页 |
| ·Prototypical model of categorization and negation | 第28-34页 |
| ·A brief introduction of the theoretical background | 第28-30页 |
| ·Categorization and negation | 第30-32页 |
| ·Negation and vagueness | 第32-33页 |
| ·An exception | 第33-34页 |
| ·Salience of semantic features and negation | 第34-35页 |
| ·A summary of the preceding sections | 第35-36页 |
| ·A general model for the negation of uni-polar items | 第36-40页 |
| Part Ⅳ Negation of lexical items of bi-polar description | 第40-53页 |
| ·Two models of processing negation | 第40页 |
| ·Oppositeness and negation | 第40-49页 |
| ·Division of oppositeness | 第41-44页 |
| ·Asymmetry of Oppositeness under negation | 第44-49页 |
| ·A brief summary and a modification upon the model | 第49-53页 |
| Part Ⅴ Conclusion and others | 第53-56页 |
| ·Conclusion | 第53-54页 |
| ·The application field of the model | 第54-56页 |
| Bibliography | 第56-58页 |
