Adjuncts for Tissue stasis

Useful adjuncts for vitreoretinal surgery.

Many vitreoretinal procedures are performed in offices and hospitals where cost control is important. We describe three useful devices and techniques that facilitate these procedures at minimal expense and often greater convenience. These include an accurate method for localising the pars plana without the use of callipers, an inexpensive, reliable, pressure regulated air pump for fluid-air exc...

Fewer adjuncts: more relatives*

Substantially agreeing with Hornstein (2009: 81), “it is fair to say that what adjuncts are and how they function grammatically is not well understood”. I refer the reader to, e.g., Hornstein 2009: chapter 4, Hornstein & Nunes 2008, Hunter 2010 or most recently Hunter 2015 for a catalog of properties and problems adjuncts raise in general, and in particular for all previous proposals including ...

Surgical adjuncts to orthodontics

Around 1970, after overcoming obstacles related to anesthesia, infection, and blood supply, orthognathic surgeons come into their own. The history of cleft lip and palate treatment has a much earlier beginning because a deformed infant evokes a strong desire to intervene. Angle’s belief that orthodontists can grow bone finally came to fruition with the advent of distraction osteogenesis, which ...

Repetition & Stasis

Linearisation: adjuncts and arguments

Kayne (1994) introduced a ‘Linear Correspondence Axiom’ which offered for the first time a principled theory concerning the linear PF ordering of NL phrases and words. Within this theory, adjuncts constitute an anomaly, requiring a stipulative definition of c-command. If the category labels of Categorial Grammar are used, a simpler linearisation depending on Asymmetric Merge is obtained, which ...