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The morphosemantics and morphosyntax of the Malayalam verb
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
The questions posed and addressed in this dissertation are broadly questions regarding the nature cross-linguistic variation and why languages differ from one another in these particular ways. This thesis focuses on four ...
Tough constructions in the context of English infinitives
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
The dissertation was inspired by the question of why subjects cannot undergo tough movement (1). (1) a. Jonathan Franzen is easy for Anneke to criticize b. *Anneke is easy - to criticize Jonathan Franzen. To answer this ...
The universality of concord
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
Abstract In this dissertation, we develop and defend a universal theory of concord (i.e. feature sharing between a head noun and the modifying adjectives). When adjectives in a language show concord with the noun they ...
Multiple dominance and interface operations
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
This dissertation explores the consequences of multidominance in syntactic theory, with a particular focus on how multidominance interacts with interpretation at the interfaces. In particular, I explore how interpretation ...
Indo-European reduplication : synchrony, diachrony, and theory
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
The reduplicative systems of the ancient Indo-European languages are characterized by an unusual alternation in the shape of the reduplicant. The related languages Ancient Greek, Gothic, and Sanskrit share the property ...