Linguistic anthropology has remained largely unaffected by debates about ontology in other subfields. In turn, the concept of language been conspicuously absent from ontological debates. The past few years, however, have seen attempts at articulating two, interrogating what is ethnographic perspectives and extending analytic focus to ontologies or linguistic natures. This article discusses such...

A basic sense of the issues can be garnered from a look at Halle's one stated rule: “Shorten the head vowel of a branching foot.” This brief imperative fairly bristles with unasked questions. Why shorten rather than lengthen? indeed, why do anything at all? Why head rather than nonhead ? indeed, why not affect both? Why branching rather than nonbranching? indeed, why not operate on any foot? Ov...

Peripheral T-cell lymphoma, not otherwise specified, is a broad category of biologically and clinically heterogeneous diseases, which can not be further classified into any other of the existing entities defined by the World Health Organization classification. Anthracycline-containing regimens, namely cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine and prednisone (CHOP), nowadays represent the stand...

Lichen planus pemphigoides (LPP) is a rare autoimmune blistering disease that is characterized by the development of vesico-bullous skin lesions in patients with lichen planus. The histopathology of LPP reveals a sub_epidermal blister with linear deposition of IgG and /or C3 along the dermal_epidermal junction (DEJ) upon direct immunofluorescence (DIF). We hereunder describe a case of lichen pl...