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.
En deux ans, quatre couples ont disparu dans la region de Williamsburg. On a retrouve leurs voitures, et, plusieurs semaines apres, leurs restes... Trop peu de choses en verite pour que Kay Scarpetta puisse determiner les causes du deces. Mais, cette fois, tout va changer: l'etudiante qui circulait avec son petit ami a bord d'une Jeep Cherokee est la fille d'une des femmes les plus puissantes des Etats-Unis, numero un de la lutte antidrogue, qui est bien decidee a remuer ciel et terre pour elucider cette disparition. Un suspense haletant et toute la rigueur de la procedure policiere: on retrouve ici l'alliage subtil qui a fait le succes de Patricia Cornwell, laureate de l'Edgar Poe Award et du Prix du roman d'aventures. www.patriciacornwell-deuxterres.com www.patriciacornwell.com
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.
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 . . .