Focus particles (words such as even, only, also) play an important role in English, in various syntactic and semantic domains, but their characteristics pose numerous problems for current syntactic frameworks and semantic theories.
This book presents a comprehensive analysis of the syntax, meaning and use of focus particles and related function words in English and many other languages. It also provides a historical perspective on their development.

This collection of original papers is a representative survey of recent theoretical and cross-linguistic work on reciprocity and reflexivity. Its most remarkable feature isits combination offormal approaches, case studies on individual languages and broad typological surveys in one volume, showing that the interaction of formal approaches to grammar and typology may lead to new insights and results for both fields.

Among the major issues addressed in this volume are the following: How can our current knowledge about the space and limits of variation in the relevant domain be...

Twenty years ago Tanabe and Sugano published the first ligand field energy diagrarns which are applicable to dN electronic configurations. These diagrams are limited in scope in that they can be used only for octahedral symmetry and for a limited number of terms. The present volume is an attempt to fill the gap by providing a reasonable nurober of complete and accurate ligand field energy diagrarns for dN configurations in the most commonly encountered symmetries. Despite their limited nature, the diagrarns of Tanabe and Sugano were exten- sively used in the past in order to rationalize...

Seit langem besteht in der Fremdsprachendidaktik Übereinkunft darüber, dass durch einen umfassenden Vergleich von Muttersprache und zu erlernender Fremdsprache verbesserte Grundlagen für den Fremdsprachenunterricht und das Studium einer Fremdsprache geschaffen werden können. Der wichtigste Teil dieses Programms der kontrastiven Linguistik, nämlich das Erstellen von umfassenden, detaillierten Bestandsaufnahmen der wesentlichen Kontraste zwischen zwei Sprachen, ihrer Zusammenhänge und ihrer Erklärungen, wurde lange Zeit nicht realisiert. Das vorliegende Buch schließt diese Lücke, indem...