The present paper recalls some of the early days of work in this model of linguistics from the perspective of someone who was privileged to be able to take part in some of them and attempts to trace the trajectory of developments in the thinking of Michael Halliday, who initiated the model and who has been at the heart of its development ever since.
Mr. Gibney's account of this recent history attempts to trace a kind of double tragedy.
But this shuffling act makes it hard to identify and compare immunoglobulin genes of different organisms, thwarting attempts to trace the evolution of the adaptive system.
In the novel Hannibal, a now world-weary and disgraced Clarice Starling is sent by corrupt FBI officials on the fool's errand of attempting to trace the whereabouts of literature's most famous cannibal.
Far more significant to the book's structure, though, is the fact that Norbury was adopted (her memoir includes, towards its end, an account of her attempts to trace her birth family).
My book, "The Yale Book of Quotations," attempts to trace famous sayings to their earliest appearances in print and documents that McLuhan used the line in question in 1960.
Previous attempts to trace the source of the account, which has over 200,000 followers on Twitter, had suggested that a Russian spammer was behind it.
Attempts to trace the rhythm of Vasquez are doomed to failure: drummer Corey Fogel prowls and leaps across the bar, Devin Hoff's hands dance about the double bass, and Holter's piano notes disregard both.
But despite extensive attempts to trace the operator of the model aircraft, with help from local model flying club members, the culprit has not been found, the body said.
Attempts to trace the genealogy of the Uralic languages to periods earlier than Proto-Uralic have been hampered by the great changes in the attested languages, which preserve relatively few features and therefore provide little evidence upon which scholars may base meaningful claims for a more distant relationship.
