My Daughter La Chola Martina

Letting my daughter go.

I always knew Daisy would die before reaching adulthood. She was my fourth child, born prematurely in December 2004 with a severe form of rare genetic condition called Costello syndrome. Daisy required complex care, but every decision about her care was made on the basis of improving the quality of her life, which meant helping her do the things she loved, such as being at home with her family,...

An open letter to my daughter.

The author writes a poignant "open" letter to her daughter about her experience with breast cancer, the family legacy of breast cancer, and the impact of learning there is a BRCA1 mutation in the family.

‘My adopted daughter and then my second wife died of kuru’

I was in my thirties and had a son by the name of Anua when Dr Carleton Gajdusek came into the Purosa Valley to do research on kuru. Carleton picked Anua from among the boys to work with him. When Carleton, Anua and others went on patrol, I assisted them by carrying field equipment and rations for two to three weeks. I also assisted by explaining to the village people why we were there in their...

Martina Huber KTH report

About Sharing by Martina

This thesis is about multidominance or sharing in syntax. The term sharing is used in a technical sense, to refer to a situation where a syntactic node has more than one mother. I assume that multidominance is allowed by the grammar. I argue that sharing configurations are more diverse than it has been proposed. I identify two kinds of sharing: bulk sharing and non-bulk sharing. A string of mul...