In NLLT 7,1 (1989), Geoffrey Pullum laments the impending doom of formal linguistics in favor of the "gentle, vague, cuddly sort of linguistics" that he feels I have been advocating since a shift of opinion that he traces to 1979. His account, however, is based on misreading and serious misunderstandings. I will keep to the latter. Two interrelated issues lie in the background: the status of fo...

or as the ends of a boiv are drawn together." They have a legend that it visits the country every thirty years. The epidemic arrived in Bhamo in June last, having travelled up the Irrawaddy Yalley starting in Rangoon in May and visiting Mandalay during the early part of June. It is interesting to note this following of the important trade route. It is not unlikely that the epidemic originated f...

Episodes of population loss and cultural change, including the famous Classic Collapse, punctuated the long course of Maya civilization. In many cases, these downturns in the fortunes of individual sites and entire regions included significant environmental components such as droughts or anthropogenic environmental degradation. Some afflicted areas remained depopulated for long periods, whereas...

Amaç: Bu çalışmada, üst ekstremite rehabilitasyon değerlendirilmesinde kullanılan Çocuk Kol Rehabilitasyon Ölçeği’nin (ÇKRÖ) Türkçe geçerlik ve güvenirliğinin belirlenmesi amaçlandı.Yöntem: Çalışmaya, 5-16 yaş arasında, serebral palsili (SP) 69 (34 kız, 35 erkek) çocuk dahil edildi. Çocukların sosyo-demografik özellikleri ile ilgili veriler, araştırmacı tarafından oluşturulan bir form sorguland...