Rejoinder to Malcolm Ross's Squib

Syntax 2 Squib:

Assuming the Raising-to-Object analysis of ECM (Bošković, 1997; Lasnik, 1999a, 1999b; Lasnik & Saito, 1991; Postal, 1974), this raises a problem for recent minimalist accounts of Subjacency (e.g., Davies & Dubinsky, 2003; Uriagereka, 1999) that tries to derive the Subject Condition effect in (1), since the DP that receives Accusative Case in (2b) is essentially raised from the embedded clause s...

Malcolm Bennett

Poppy, who also was a co-organiser of the meeting, leads a new research project called ASSETS (Attaining Sustainable Services from Ecosystems through Trade-off Scenarios). This project investigates two model regions at the forest–agriculture interface, one in Colombia and one in Malawi. The case studies cover around two million people, but the researchers believe that the results they obtain wi...

Malcolm Burrows

At the international level, there is an increasing awareness that many of the environmental problems that our civilisation has brought upon itself are either focused on the shorelines or most obvious in their vicinity. Fertiliser run-off from agricultural lands produces eutrophication of coastal waters, marine litter washes up on Norway’s otherwise flawless beaches, and disoriented whales as we...

Rejoinder to Gordon Tullock

Rejoinder: Response to Sobel*

Sobel claims to disagree with many of the points made in my paper. He also claims that much if not all of what I say is already in the statistical treatment effect literature. He treats my Section 4 as a literature review rather than an illustration of the basic principles made in Sections 1–3 of the paper, as I intended it to be. In joint work with Edward Vytlacil, I present a comprehensive li...