Phase Theory is the latest empirical and conceptual innovation in syntactic theory within the Chomskyan generative tradition. Adopting a cross-linguistic perspective, this book provides an introduction to Phase Theory, tracing the development of phases in minimalist syntax.
An argument that Merge is binary but its binarity refers to syntactic positions rather than objects. In this book, Barbara Citko and Martina Gračanin-Yüksek examine the constraints on Merge--the basic structure-building operation in minimalist syntax--from a multidominant perspective. They maintain that Merge is binary, but argue that the binarity of Merge refers to syntactic positions Merge relates: what has typically been formulated as a constraint that prevents Merge from combining more than two syntactic objects is a constraint on Merge's relating more than two syntactic positions.
Virginia Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta is called in to autopsy the body of convicted murderer Ronnie Waddell after his execution. Several days after the execution, a young boy is discovered murdered in the fashion of Waddell's earlier killings, with Waddell's prints near the body. Scarpetta, along with FBI Agent Benton Wesley and Detective Pete Marino, try to discover how a dead inmate could have possibly committed another murder after his death. As the story progresses she seeks the assistance of her 17-year-old niece Lucy after she discovers a strange folder on her computer.
Black Mountain, petite bourgade de Caroline du Nord. La vie s'écoule paisiblement. Pourtant, Emily Steiner, ravissante fillette de onze ans, est enlevée, torturée et assassinée. Le mode opératoire ressemble en tout point à celui du tueur en série Temple Gault, que Kay Scarpetta traque depuis des années. Épaulée par Marino et Wesley, elle démèle un à un les fils qui la rapprochent du meurtrier. Elle doit affronter l'hostilité d'une communauté frappée par l'horreur, et le chagrin d'une mère qui ne comprend pas qu'on veuille exhumer sa fille.
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Le cadavre de son ami Ted Eddings, un journaliste, retrouvé au fond de l'eau dans une zone militaire interdite, lance le médecin légiste Kay Scarpetta sur les traces d'une secte manipulée par un réseau terroriste international. En compagnie de Lucy, sa nièce, devenue un agent du FBI, et de son complice Marino, le flic macho, au grand cœur, elle affronte d'implacables ennemis, tout au long d'un suspense où les technologies de pointe et la réalité virtuelle bouleversent les données de l'enquête criminelle... Patricia Cornwell a connu une célébrité immédiate avec son premier roman, Postmortem, Prix Edgar Poe aux Etats-Unis et, en France, Prix du Roman d'aventures 1992. Mémoires mortes, Et il ne resta que poussière..., Une mort sans nom sont aujourd'hui des best-sellers dans vingt-quatre pays.
Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching and gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it. For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago. Maybe, like Mitch, you lost track of this mentor as you made your way and the insights faded. Wouldn't you like to see that person again, ask the bigger questions that still haunt you? Mitch Albom had that second chance. He rediscovered Morrie in the last months of the older man's life. Knowing he was dying of ALS - or motor neurone disease - Mitch visited Morrie in his study every Tuesday, just as they used to back in college. Their rekindled relationship turned into one final 'class': lessons in how to live. TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE is a magical chronicle of their time together, through which Mitch shares Morrie's lasting gift with the world.
Long retired, Sherlock Holmes quietly pursues his study of honeybee behavior on the Sussex Downs. He never imagines he would encounter anyone whose intellect matched his own, much less an audacious teenage girl with a penchant for detection. Miss Mary Russell becomes Holmes's pupil and quickly hones her talent for deduction, disguises and danger. But when an elusive villain enters the picture, their partnership is put to a real test.
After months of menacing phone calls and feeling that her every move is being watched, successful writer Beryl Madison flees Key West when a terrifying message is scratched on her car. But the very night she returns to Richmond, she deactivates her burglar alarm and opens her door to someone who nearly decapitates her. Why did she let him in, wonders Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta? And, why is Beryl's latest manuscript missing? Persuing the answers involves Scarpetta in the murder of another writer - Beryl's jealous mentor. While she copes with a variety of personal and professional problems, Scarpetta's high-tech forensic skills enable her to collect a body of evidence - clues that would mean little without her intelligence, compassion, and imagination - that leads her directly into a nightmare all her own.
In Richmond, Virginia, young lovers are dying. So far, four couples in the area have disappeared, only to be found months later as mutilated corpses. When the daughter of the president's newest drug czar vanishes along with her boyfriend, Dr. Kay Scarpetta knows time is short. Following a macabre trail of evidence that ties the present homicides to a grisly crime in the past, Kay must draw upon her own personal resources to track down a murderer who is as skilled at eliminating clues as Kay is at finding them ...
U dobrotvornoj akciji na Badnju večer Kay Scarpetta i Pete Marino dijele pokrivače siromašnoj djeci Richmonda. No njihovi planovi za božićne praznike rasplinut će se zajedno s dimom baruta i nestati kao odjek hitaca u noći. Leš mladog crnca na vratima kuće u kojoj su se zatekli biti će samo uvertira. Njihov zakleti neprijatelj Temple Brooks Gault, serijski ubojica s najmanje pet žrtava na krvavom popisu, ima svoj vlastiti plan za proslavu blagdana. U njujorškom Central Parku pronađen je leš s jasnim Gaultovim zločinačkim potpisom. Sada će sve drugo morati pričekati dok se ne iščitaju tragovi u snijegu a mrtvo tijelo nepoznate mlade žene ne oda posljednju tajnu i usmjeri doktoricu Scarpetta na pravi put. Patricia Cornwell sa svojim šestim romanom Sa sirotinjskoga groblja nastavlja najuspješniju kriminalističku seriju novog doba. Za svaku novu Scarpettu već su unaprijed rezervirane milijunske naklade, prvo mjesto na listi najprodavanijih knjiga i prijevodi na tridesetak jezika.
U zabitim šumskim predjelima savezne države Virginije lovci i izletnici pronalaze davno ostavljena trupla mladih parova. Doktorica Kay Scarpetta, glavni sudski patolog, usprkos svojem bogatom iskustvu, neće uspjeti utvrditi uzroke smrti iz posmrtnih ostataka, a kamoli naći neki trag koji bi policijskog inspektora Marina mogao dovesti do iznimno opreznog i lukavog ubojice. No kada kći jedne od najmoćnijih žena u američkoj politici postane žrtvom opakog serijskog ubojice, pritisak na doktoricu Scarpettu postat će neizdrživ. Od najtanjih niti indicija, gotovo nepostojećih dokaza, kontradiktornih činjenica i maglovitih sumnji Kay Scarpetta bit će prisiljena isplesti paukovu mrežu nadajući se da će biti dovoljno čvrsta da se ubojica uplete u nju.
Mirni gradić Black Mountain u srcu savezne države Sjevena Karolina potrest će jeziv zločin. Način na koji je počinjeno ubojstvo jedanaestogodišnje djevojčice natjerat će dr. Kay Scarpetta i policijskog poručnika Petea Marina da posumnjaju kako je riječ o još jednom zlodjelu okrutnog ubojice Gaulta. Tijekom istrage na licu mjesta, u kojoj će im se pridružiti specijalni agent Wesley i Scarpettina nećakinja Lucy, situacija će se dodatno zakomplicirati novim ubojstvima, pa zatim i složenim međusobnim odnosima samih istražitelja. Jedinu nadu za rješenje ovog zapletenog ubojstva dr. Scarpetta očekuje od rezultata eksperimenta kojeg će pokušati privesti kraju na istraživačkom poligonu sudske patologije poznatom pod nazivom Farma leševa. U hrvatskom prijevodu Martine Gračanin i uz ilustraciju Nenada Martića Farma leševa Patricije Cornwell peti je roman u seriji slučajeva dr. Kay Scarpetta, trenutačno najpopularnijeg lika kriminalističkih romana u svijetu.