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.
The first novel featuring Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta from the #1 bestselling author of Black Notice and Point Of Origin Winner of the Edgar Award and the Macavity Award for best first mystery. Four women with nothing in common, united only in death. Four brutalized victims of a brilliant monster - a "Mr. Nobody", moving undetected through a paralyzed city, leaving behind a gruesome trail of carnage . . . but few clues. With skilled hands, an unerring eye, and the latest advances in forensic research, an unrelenting female medical examiner - Kay Scarpetta - is determined to unmask a maniac. But someone is trying to sabotage Kay's investigation from the inside. And worse yet, someone wants her dead . . .
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.
Judy Hammer, l'héroïne de La Ville des frelons, est nommée à Richmond (Virginie). Sa mission : réorganiser la police, lutter coûte que coûte contre une criminalité qui a fait de l'ancienne capitale sudiste une jungle urbaine. Auprès d'elle, ses adjoints, Virginia West et Andy Brazil. Il leur faudra se battre sur tous les fronts : réformer une police corrompue ou récalcitrante, braver des mentalités racistes et bornées, et venir à bout d'une délinquance formée souvent de très jeunes criminels, soumis à la loi de fer des gangs. Comme celle que fait régner Smoke, véritable psychopathe qui sème la terreur et tue de sang-froid. Noirceur et humour forment un mélange détonant, où l'efficacité n'empêche pas la lucidité. Dans cette nouvelle série, Patricia Cornwell brosse le tableau sans concession d'une société à la dérive.