The Blackwell Companion to Syntax-Vol I

the first volume of 5-volume series

This monumental reference resource offers a comprehensive survey of the field of syntax as it has been studied over the last forty years or so. Made up of 77 extensive case studies written by 80 of the world's leading linguists, it gives a complete overview of the empirical facts and theoretical insights gleaned in syntactic research in recent decades.

Under the editorial direction of martin Everaert and Henk van Riemsdijk, this comprehensive multi-volume set comprises case studies commissioned specifically for this Companion. Contributors are drawn from an international group of prestigious linguists, including Joseph Emonds, Sandra Chung, Susan Rothstein, Adriana Belletti, C.-T. James Huang, Howard Lasnik, and Marcel den Dikken, among many others.

Each set features an accessible alphabetical structure, with an index integral to each volume. The entire Companion is also available electronically on the accompanying CD-Rom. Published within the prestigious Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics series, this significant reference work can be relied upon to deliver the quality and expertise with which this series - and Blackwell Publishing' linguistics list - is associated.

ALICE-AN INTERACTIVE MUSEUM (ISO)
The game begins in a living room, which was modeled after the one in painter Kuniyoshi Kaneko's own house. From there you enter a museum and the world of Alice. There is very little story here, but there is very much a purpose to the game that you uncover as you explore, which is to find all of a deck of 53 cards and thus find your way out of the museum. The game is very much designed to have the feel of a modern-day Alice in Wonderland, which is one of the more unusual aspects to the game. It also offers myriad images signifying this relationship, not the least of which is the white rabbit and Alice herself. This is not to say that this is a child's game—it actually is not. There are a number of adult images here, some a bit suggestive, which really work well for the piece; it's just that I wouldn't hand it to a 10-year-old to play. Finding the cards is tricky. They are cleverly hidden, although some are easier to find than others. The hiding of them seems to fall well in line with some of the more abstract aspects of Lewis Carroll's own Alice. There are twelve rooms to explore, divided into four sections, one each for the four suits in a deck of cards. Once found, some of the cards provide the player with clues to unlock the secret of Alice. I guess you could say this was one of the first 'hidden object' games and is extremely rare to find.