"This Woman's Work" in a "Man's World": A Feminist Analysis of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002

Published in Whittier Law Review, v.28, 2006Farm Bill, Feminism, Farm Security and Rural Investment Act, 2002, Sciullo, law, womyn, international agriculture, covered commodities, Agricultural and Food Policy, Food Security and Poverty, International Development, International Relations/Trade, Public Economics,

REVISTING THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN BROADBAND DIFFUSION AND REGIONAL SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT: A PRIMER

As they create generative conditions for socioeconomic development ICTs and broadband technology, can be understood as an innovation kernel for system evolution. Whereas for a regional system (a local area), technological progress may at certain times be regarded as exogenous, information endowments and expected level of functionalities are not. An innovation kernel, in fact, cannot exist outside the organization of the regional/local system which it belongs to. To grow and deploy its potentials, a fertile environment capable to adapt pro-actively to the changes it produces is needed. In this paper the conceptual underpinnings of an innovation kernel are overviewed and their relationships with those conventionally addressed in regional science studies briefly discussed. Bbuilding upon the IRES research undertaken as a part of the Piedmont ICT Observatory activities, an effort is made to pinpoint the determinants and processes of regional development on which an innovation kernel would encroach. A conceptual framework is outlined which makes it possible to elicit some main relationships between ICTs, broadband and developmental processes in a regional system.

Sur la définition des variables

Nous argumentons en faveur d’une définition strictement intrinsèque et syntaxique de la catégorie des variables dans le cadre de la théorie gouvernement-liage. L’analyse de structures de l’italien contenant des objets nuls, des PROarb et des pronoms résomptifs appuie l’idée que les notions de variable syntaxique et de variable sémantique ne sont pas coextensives. Des arguments qui ont trait à la typologie des catégories vides et aux propriétés de la théorie unifiée du liage, au sens de McA’Nulty (1983) et di Sciullo (1982), justifient indépendamment une définition intrinsèque de la catégorie des variables syntaxiques. Dans notre système, les variables sont les seules catégories vides marquées d’un Cas, ce qui les rend grammaticalement distinctes des autres catégories vides. En outre, des définitions contextuelles pour les catégories syntaxiques, et donc pour les variables syntaxiques, sont exclues par les principes de la théorie grammaticale que nous proposons.We argue in favor of a strictly syntactical and intrinsic definition for the category of variables in the Government Binding theory. The analysis of italian constructions involving null objects, PROarb and resumptive pronouns provides evidence that the notions syntactic variables and semantic variables are not coextensive. Arguments related to the typology of empty categories and to the properties of the unified binding theory, in the sense of McA'Nulty (1983) and di Sciullo (1982), justify independently an intrinsic definition of syntactic variables. In our system, variables are the only empty category with Case, this makes them grammatically distinct from the other empty categories. Furthermore, contextual definitions for syntactic categories, and thus for syntactic variables, are excluded by the principles of the theory of grammar that we propose

REVISTING THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN BROADBAND DIFFUSION AND REGIONAL SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT: A PRIMER

As they create generative conditions for socioeconomic development ICTs and broadband technology, can be understood as an innovation kernel for system evolution. Whereas for a regional system (a local area), technological progress may at certain times be regarded as exogenous, information endowments and expected level of functionalities are not. An innovation kernel, in fact, cannot exist outside the organization of the regional/local system which it belongs to. To grow and deploy its potentials, a fertile environment capable to adapt pro-actively to the changes it produces is needed. In this paper the conceptual underpinnings of an innovation kernel are overviewed and their relationships with those conventionally addressed in regional science studies briefly discussed. Bbuilding upon the IRES research undertaken as a part of the Piedmont ICT Observatory activities, an effort is made to pinpoint the determinants and processes of regional development on which an innovation kernel would encroach. A conceptual framework is outlined which makes it possible to elicit some main relationships between ICTs, broadband and developmental processes in a regional system

Government and code-mixing

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Constructions à prédicats légers et quasi-légers

Nous proposons d’étendre la classe des prédicats légers (lights verbs) pour y inclure les verbes causatifs et à restructuration de l’italien. Leur structure d’argument contient des positions vides et ils forment des prédicats complexes avec des prédicats lourds par identification de positions d’arguments. Les propriétés argumentales d’un complexe avec volere (vouloir) sont celles du prédicat lourd; quant à celles d’un complexe avec fare (faire), elles sont attribuées au fait que ce dernier a un argument externe spécifié. La formation de prédicat complexe s’effectue au niveau de la Structure d’Argument, bien que la classe des prédicats (quasi-)légers soit définie au niveau de la Structure Lexicale Conceptuelle : les prédicats s-sélectionnent des événements. Un prédicat (quasi-)léger est coïndexé à un prédicat lourd en structure-P et en Forme Logique.We propose to extend the class of light verbs in order to include restructuring and causative verbs in Italian. Their argument structure contains empty positions and they form complex predicates with heavy predicates by identification of argument positions. The argument properties of a complex predicate with volere (to want) are those of the heavy predicate; as for the argument properties of a complex predicate with fare (to do), they are attributed to the fact that the latter has a specified external arguement. Complex predicate formation takes place at the level of Argument Structure, whereas the class of (quasi-)light verbs is defined at Lexical Conceptual Structure: the predicates s-select events. A (quasi-)light verb is coin-dexed with a heavy verb at D-structure and at Logical Form