Abstract This study presents new data on the bi-absolutive construction in Chechen, a Nakh-Daghestanian language spoken northern Caucasus. The basic case frame transitive clause Chechen is ergative-absolutive. In progressive constructions with an auxiliary and simultaneous converb, alternates absolutive-absolutive – or construction. To assess factors conditioning this alternation, we use from t...

Transplantation is the preferred treatment for the most serious forms of kidney disease; deceaseddonor and live-donor kidneys are the two sources for transplantation, and these sources are utilized via two different programs. One of these programs, a two-way kidney paired donation (KPD), involves two patient-donor couples, for each of whom transplantation from donor to intended recipient is not...

In Case, Mark Baker develops a unified theory of how the morphological case marking of noun phrases is determined by syntactic structure. Designed to work well for languages of all alignment types – accusative, ergative, tripartite, marked nominative, or marked absolutive – this theory has been developed and tested against unrelated languages of each type, and more than twenty non-Indo-European...

The stranding of quantifiers/prepositions is argued to show the path of movement. Mayrinax Atayal, a verb-initial ergative language, displays a wide range of positions for the quantifier kahabaag ‘all’ and the reflexive anaphor nanaq ‘self’ when they are interpreted with absolutive DPs. Assuming stranding phenomena as diagnostics for movement, I investigate quantifier stranding and reflexive st...

The existence of two independent components of long-term memory has been demonstrated by the authors. The evidence has been derived from the authors' findings related to the optimum spacing of repetitions in paired-associate learning. The two components are sufficient to explain the optimum spacing of repetitions as well as the spacing effect. Although the molecular counterparts of the two comp...

The interlimb coordination during overground locomotion was analysed in intact rats, using the method of contact electrodes (Górska et al. 1998). It was found that in animals moving with a speed ranging from 10 to 78 cm/s (step cycles 685 to 215 ms, respectively) the interlimb coordination was characterized by homologous phase shifts close to 0.5 and much shorter diagonal than lateral phase shi...