ATG Interviews Kingsley Greene

Harry S.N. Greene, M.D.

Varieties of World Englishes KINGSLEY BOLTON

The concepts of language variety and variation lie at the heart of the world Englishes enterprise, not least because many researchers in this field have identified their interests as the study of "varieties of English," "localized varieties of English," "non-native varieties of English," "second-language varieties of English," and "new varieties of English." The issue of linguistic variety is a...

Who ’ s Afraid of George Kingsley Zipf ?

We explore the implications of Zipf’s law for the understanding of linguistic productivity. Focusing on language acquisition, we show that the item/usage based approach has not been supported by adequate statistical evidence. By contrast, the quantitative properties of a productive grammar can be precisely formulated, and are consistent with even very young children’s language. Moreover, drawin...

Harry S. N. Greene, M.D.

Hic locus est, et iam tempus est, nobis doctori Harrico Viridi honores dare. This is the place and now is the time for us to give honors to Doctor Harry Greene! And Dr. Greene, were he here, besides scurrilous remarks about bad Latin Grammar would undoubtedly comment that the "Harrico Viridi" bit sounds suspiciously like "green beans" in French! Dr. Harry S. N. Greene thought it was a man's dut...

Hepatotoxicity induced by horse ATG and reversed by rabbit ATG: a case report

BACKGROUND The use of antilymphocyte agents has improved patient and graft survival in hematopoietic stem cell and solid organ transplantation but has been associated with the development of short-term toxicities as well as long-term complications. CASE PRESENTATION We report a young female with Fanconi anemia who received antithymocyte globulin as part of the conditioning regimen prior to he...