The donkey is not just a smaller, inferior type of horse. To those who have taken the time to get to know him, the donkey is a unique equine of special qualities. Yet he is an evolutionary relative of the horse and so will forever be compared with the horse. The mule, however, is still a scientific enigma. The mule has been described as the animal without “pride of ancestry, nor hope of posteri...

This paper addresses multiple proportional readings in donkey sentences and deals with a question of why the disambiguation of proportional readings is affected by the topic structure of a sentence. The correlation between proportional readings and topic structure has been observed by Heim (1990) and Chierchia (1992) but has not been given a satisfactory explanation yet. Based on my previous st...

The paper argues that discourse reference in natural language involves two equally important components with essentially the same interpretive dynamics, namely reference to values, i.e. (non-singleton) sets of objects, and reference to structure, i.e. the correlation / dependency between such sets, which is introduced and incrementally elaborated upon in discourse. To define and investigate str...

Donkeys belong to the Equidae family and as such are similar to equines in many ways. However, there are a number of significant features peculiar to the donkey that practitioners should be aware of when attempting to investigate and treat respiratory disease. These include differences in anatomy, physiology, pharmacokinetics, disease incidence and morbidity with certain infectious diseases. Th...

in the early 90’s, donkeys were in danger of extinction as species. in italy, there were counted few heads of many breeds but, unfortunately, others had already been extinct. with the donkey in danger, there was a risk of disappearance of a part of ecosystem, a biodiversity particularly significant as it represents humans’ history. all countries around the mediterranean sea, countries of southe...

At the start of the 2000s Australia was derided by some for being an ‘old economy’. It lacked a substantial information and communications technology sector and was seen to be overly dependent on the extraction of resources, an activity that was not going to be enriching due to the declining relative value of commodities and weak potential productivity gains. However, by the end of the 2000s Au...