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 ...

This study aimed to examine cross-cultural differences in performing refusal of requests between Persian native speakers (PNSs) and English native speakers (ENSs) in terms of the frequency of the semantic formulas. Also examined in this study was whether Persian EFL learners would transfer their L1 refusal patterns into the L2, and if there would be a relation between their proficiency level an...

Adjuncts and relative clauses are traditionally classified as strong islands for extraction across languages. However, the Mainland Scandinavian (MSc.) languages have been reported to differ from e.g., English in allowing adjunct clauses. In order investigate distribution of possible island extractions these based on naturally produced material, we conducted two exploratory corpus studies claus...

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 ...

The issue of adjuncts has long been a neglected field of linguistic study whether it be syntactic or semantic. It is only in Pustejovsky (1995) that we find a brief mention of adjuncts. In addition to what the author calls true arguments, default arguments, and shadow arguments, he sets up a class of true adjuncts citing the following sentence , Mary drove down to New York on Tuesday. We will t...

Although there are several of reviews of technology in psychology, none to date has focused on technological adjuncts for improving traditional face to face therapy. However, examination of response, adherence, and dropout rates suggests there is considerable scope for improving traditional face to face services. The purpose of this paper was to examine technological adjuncts used to enhance ps...