The purpose of this paper is to account for missing arguments in impersonal constructions in earlier English. Having examined all the proposals for accounting for the missing arguments in line with the discussion of such arguments in early child English, we saw that all of them had potential problems. I proposed a new view that the missing arguments were not missing, but simply did not exist in...

In the current study, we tested whether 7-month-old infants would selectively imitate the goal-relevant aspects of an observed action. Infants saw an experimenter perform an action on one of two small toys and then were given the opportunity to act on the toys. Infants viewed actions that were either goal-directed or goal-ambiguous, and that represented either completed or uncompleted goals. In...

Knowledge management can greatly facilitate an organization’s learning via strategic insight. Assessing the achievements of knowledge communities (KC) includes both a theoretical basis and practical aspect; however, a cautionary word is in order, because using improper measurements will increase complexity and reduce applicability. Group decision-making, the essence of knowledge communities, le...