Focus particles (words such as even, only, also) play an important role in English, in various syntactic and semantic domains, but their characteristics pose nu

This study explores the grammar of focus particles in German. It gives a thorough description and analysis of focus particle constructions and links their synta

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The present volume is centered on the notional domain of additivity. Many linguistic phenomena are based on additivity (i.e. are incremental) and additive relat

Particle verbs (combinations of two words but lexical units) are a notorious problem in linguistics. Is a particle verb like look up one word or two? It has its