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Nine characteristics of discontinuous agreement are shown to flow from a syntax that deals in whole phi structures and a linearisation algorithm that renders these discontinuous when conditions converge. This approach is demonstrably superior to reliance solely on syntax, morphology, or the lexicon, outperforming these across a range morphological and syntactic data from Afroasiatic languages and those of Australia and Papua New Guinea. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines the work that measures and values do in policy in the context of an epochal change in the relations between knowledge and policy in Australia. I tell a story of successive attempts to rehabilitate a dying Australian river. The first attempt employs policy as the application of theoretically justified natural knowledge about rivers and their environs. The second attempt occurs after the evidencebased policy era has dawned in Australia. The contrast shows that measures, values and facts about the dying river justified by epistemic practices have been displaced. In an era of evidence-based policy and governance through market mechanisms, measures and values speak to policy through designs that can be bought and sold. In order to be able to better describe this shift I develop an analytic vocabulary to give an account of the intensive properties of what I call enumerated entities, and link the shift to the move from a disciplinary to a control society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]