Linguistics and Philosophy - Ph.D. / Sc.D.

Recent Submissions

  • Modest epistemology 

    Dorst, Kevin(Kevin Matthew) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)
    Thinking properly is hard. Sometimes I mess it up. I definitely messed it up yesterday. I'll likely mess it up tomorrow. Maybe I'm messing it up right now. I'm guessing you're like me. If so, then we're both modest: we're ...

  • Scope theory revisited : lessons from pied-piping in wh-questions 

    Demirok, Ömer (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)
    It is widely assumed that both the movement-based theory of scope and the scope-based theory of intensionality fall short in the face of empirical challenges like 'exceptional' scope out of extraction islands and the ...

  • Presuppositions in focus 

    Francis, Naomi Clair. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)
    This dissertation explores how presuppositions and focus interact. It takes as its starting point a puzzle about expressions like even and its cross linguistic kin in declarative sentences that deny presuppositions: these ...

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