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  • The universality of concord 
    Bayırlı, İsa Kerem (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 ...
  • Tough constructions in the context of English infinitives 
    Brillman, Ruth (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 ...
  • Joint practical deliberation 
    De Kenessey, Brendan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
    Joint practical deliberation is the activity of deciding together what to do. In this dissertation, I argue that several speech acts that we can use to alter our moral obligations - promises, offers, requests, demands, ...
  • An inflexible semantics for cross-categorial operators 
    Hirsch, Aron, Ph. D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
    This thesis studies operators such as and and only, which occur in a broad range of environments. And, for instance, appears between sentences, intransitive verbs, quantifiers, and so forth. One line of analysis assigns ...
  • The role of perceptual similarity and gradient phonotactic well-formedness in loan gemination processes/ 
    Magyar, Lilla (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
    Loan gemination is a cross-linguistically widespread phenomenon: short consonants preceded by short stressed vowels in the source language are borrowed as long in loanwords. It is generally considered to be an 'unnecessary' ...
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