A familiar syntactic feature of dialectal (Southern and Appalachian) U.S. English is the optional occurrence of a nonsubcategorized “personal dative” pronominal in transitive clauses which obligatorily coindexes the subject but whose semantic contribution is ill-understood. As we shall see, this personal dative (PD) bears suggestive if not always straightforward relations to constructions in su...

Unlike Mendelian epilepsies, complex epilepsies may be due to the effect of several or multiple susceptibility genes. Association studies have been used in the past decade to help identify common genetic variants underpinning complex epilepsies. However, as the data in the Epilepsy Genetic Association Database (epiGAD) show, many of these studies have been negative, or have shown confl icting r...

In the present paper we consider the on-off intermittency phenomena observed in time series of spontaneous paroxysmal activity in rats with genetic absence epilepsy. The method to register and analyze the electroencephalogram with the help of continuous wavelet transform is also suggested.

[This corrects the article on p. 42 in vol. 4, PMID: 23717298.].