Movement operations in the Minimalist Program (MP) framework are assumed to be last resort, that is, to have to be driven by some interface need. In recent versions of the MP (Chomsky 2000, 2004), movement has been viewed as a concomitant of the operation 'Agree', under which a head bearing an uninterpretable (unvalued) instance of a formal feature F, acting as Probe, seeks to enter into a feat...

Efficient cooperation requires effective coordination of individual contributions to the cooperative behaviour. Most social birds and mammals involved in cooperation produce a range of vocalisations, which may be important in regulating both individual contributions and the combined group effort. Here we investigate the role of a specific call in regulating cooperative sentinel behaviour in pie...

L’hémangiopericytome est une tumeur vasculaire rare classée comme sarcome des tissus mous, elle peut être bénigne ou maligne, elle prend naissance au niveau des péricytes qui sont des cellules localisées au niveau de la lame basale de l’endothélium des capillaires ce qui explique son caractère ubiquitaire. Leur traitement de référence est la chirurgie souvent complétée d’une radiothérapie. Nous...

A decrease in wetland habitats throughout North America has caused a decline in populations of marsh birds. The objective of this study was to estimate population densities and abundances of secretive marsh birds in Iowa. Call-broadcast surveys were conducted in conjunction with distance sampling for eight species of marsh birds at wetlands in three regions of Iowa during 2009 and 2010. Regions...

Correlations between behavioural traits constrain animals to a limited range of behavioural choices and set a limit to the available variation in behavioural phenotype of a population. These constraints are especially important during stressful situations, potentially limiting the ability to cope with stress appropriately. As yet, very little consideration has been given to a possible role for ...

The purpose of this paper is to determine whether the different properties of the operation Move before and after Spell-Out can be grounded in independently motivated properties of the minimalist program. To this end I will address two potential problems for the requirement that derivations must be uniform: (i) the obligatory nature of pied-piping prior to Spell-Out and (ii) the obligatory elim...

English allows a peculiar type of elliptical wh-questions that can be found only under sluicing, in which the wh-object of the preposition appears not after the preposition but before it, as in “John fixed it, but I don’t remember what with.” Merchant (2002) calls this construction Swiping. This study evaluates two competing syntactic analyses of Swiping, by using data from a novel source: the ...

Dolenec, Z.: Some breeding traits of the pied wagtail (Motacilla alba) in NW Croatia. Nat. Croat., Vol. 20, No. 1., 209–214, 2011, Zagreb. In this study, some key aspects of the breeding performance of the pied wagtail are reported for the first time in northwestern Croatian. Only first clutches are included. The average egg length was 20.04 mm, breadth = 14.96 mm, volume = 2276.41 mm3 and egg ...

Résumé Le pied diabétique pèse lourdement sur la santé des diabétiques, étant responsable d’une grande morbidité et de graves incapacités. Leur prévention reste incontournable. Notre étude vise à réduire le taux d’amputation chez les diabétiques. Nous avons fait une étude rétrospective descriptive, transversale et multicentrique du dépistage du risque podologique chez les diabétiques de type 2,...

Les lymphangiomes, plus récemment appelés malformations lymphatiques kystiques, sont des malformations lymphatiques matures, hémodynamiquement inactives, constituées de vaisseaux lymphatiques anormaux et de kystes de taille et de formes variées; Nous rapportons ici le cas d'une femme âgée de 30 ans ayant une malformation lymphatique macrokystique localisée au niveau du pied droit. Suivie depuis...