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Phrase structure in minimalist syntax
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995)
What moves where when in which languages?
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997)
Verb raising and A/A-bar distinction : evidence from exceptional case marking
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997)
The morphology-phonology interface in signed languages
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)
This thesis provides a novel way of looking at verb agreement in signed languages by using an interaction of several processes within the Distributed Morphology framework. At the center of the model is a phonological ...
About sharing
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
This thesis is about multidominance or sharing in syntax. The term sharing is used in a technical sense, to refer to a situation where a syntactic node has more than one mother. I assume that multidominance is allowed by ...
The syntactic forms of predication
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1983)
Multiple feature-checking : a theory of grammatical function splitting
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996)
Minimizing harm : three problems in moral theory
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
Chapter 1 (Distance and Morality): This chapter is a response toFrances Kamm's "Faminine Ethics: the Problem of Distance in Morality and Singer's Ethical Theory". I argue that Kamm fails to produce a pair of cases in which ...
On the content of empty categories
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982)
Topics in Turkish syntax : clausal structure and scope
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
This dissertation asks two main questions for Turkish: (i) what is the interaction between verbal morphology and the structure?, and (ii) what is the interaction between word order and interpretation? Following Kornfilt ...