Reciprocal pronouns "each other" and "one another"

The subject of this thesis are English reciprocal pronouns each other and one another. There are many approaches to the issue of reciprocity in English (such as generative, typological or transformational) nonetheless; this study attempts to approach the issue from the general perspective. The thesis is a corpus based study and the primary corpus chosen for this analysis is the British National Corpus, from which 100 examples were extracted (i.e. 50 examples on the pronoun each other and 50 instances on the pronoun one another). The main goal of this thesis was to map the immediate environment of the pronouns - in depth analysis was especially paid to the issue of the pronouns' antecedents, which concerns the number of participants in the reciprocal action (meaning whether they refer to two participants, to a group of three and more or whether they pertain to an unspecified group - i.e. when making a general statement). Further, the pronouns' preference to animate or inanimate entities was discussed, the pronouns' verbal collocates, their syntactic functions within clauses and finally their stylistic distribution. Key words: reciprocal pronouns, number of participants in the reciprocal actio