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.
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.
U gradu Richmondu, u saveznoj državi Virginiji, serijski ubojica u sitne noćne sate s petka na subotu provaljuje u stanove žena koje žive same, vezuje ih, muči, siluje i ubija, a zatim nestaje bez traga. I dok se policijski poručnik Pete Marino i Benton Wesley, FBI-ev specijalist za psihologiju zločinaca, vrte u krug pokušavajući proniknuti u poremećeni um ubojice, doktorica Kay Scarpetta, šefica sudske patologije, od iščezlih mirisa i nevidljivih čestica alkemijom intuicije i dedukcije sastavlja slagalicu koja će zlikovca dovesti pod prozor njezina vlastitog doma. U ovom iznimno napetom romanu, koji je dobio sve prestižne američke nagrade za najbolji krimić godine, Patricia Cornwell autentičnim je izrazom dočarala Sherlocka Holmesa novog doba. Koristeći se iskustvom koje je stekla kao novinarka crne kronike i kompjuterski stručnjak na sudskoj patologiji Patricia Cornwell stvorila je upečatljiv lik liječnice koja, služeći se najsuvremenijom tehnologijom dostupnom američkom pravosuđu, raspetljava zamršeno klupko zločina.
A reclusive writer is dead. And her final manuscript has disappeared ... Someone is stalking Beryl Madison. Someone who spies on her and makes threatening, obscene phone-calls. Terrified, Beryl flees to Key West - but eventually she must return to her Richmond home. The very night she arrives, Beryl inexplicably invites her killer in ... Thus begins for Dr Kay Scarpetta the investigation of a crime that is as convoluted as it is bizarre. Why would Beryl open the door to someone who brutally slashed and then nearly decapitated her? Did she know her killer? Adding to the intrigue is Beryl's enigmatic relationship with a prize-winning author and the disappearance of her own manuscript. As Scarpetta retraces Beryl's footsteps, an investigation that begins in the laboratory with microscopes and lasers leads her deep into a nightmare that soon becomes her own. For more about Patricia Cornwell and her books visit her website at www.patricia-cornwell.com