In Bangladesh, pervasive poverty has kept generations of families from sending their children to school, and without education, their children’s future will be a distressing echo of their own. Many children from poor families in Bangladesh do not attend school either because their families cannot afford books and other school materials, or because the children contribute to their family’s livel...

This paper argues for a neo-Davidsonian voice approach in the spirit of Kratzer (1996, 2003) to the syntax and semantics of dative arguments in German, and against syntactic or lexical theories of possessor raising. The voice approach is developed in some detail for so-called “possessor” datives, and later on extended to “beneficiary” datives. It is argued that, in both cases, the local contrib...

A major objective for the Commission on the Future of Higher Education is to insure that consumer-friendly information about colleges and universities be easily available to the public with little or no cost. The following issue paper/proposal is designed to produce that outcome through a recommendation to implement a free, comprehensive information system about higher education available from ...