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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)My dissertation consists of a series of papers on grounding pluralism, the broad view that there are multiple kinds of metaphysical grounding relations. Specifically, I argue that there are three species of grounding: ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)If you can help someone without detriment to your interest, nor anyone else's interest, then it is clear that you ought to do so. But things are not always so easy. When there is a conflict of interest, you have to decide ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)In this thesis, I propose a new theory of implicature. I argue that the two main theories available so far - the (Neo-)Gricean pragmatic theory on the one hand (e.g., Sauerland (2004)), and the hybrid grammatical theory ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)I begin with a discussion of two ways of imagining something: 'from the inside' and 'from the outside'. My interest in this topic is two-fold: First, I want to see what studying this topic can teach us about the nature of ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)The aim of this thesis, and the research project within which it is embedded, is to delineate a neural model of grammatical competence. For this purpose, we develop here a novel integrated, multi-disciplinary experimental ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)In this thesis, I investigate a set of apparently disparate phenomena that relate, more or less closely, to the interpretation of Determiner Phrases (DPs): the restrictiveness effects associated with NP modification, the ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)Being rational and being moral can be difficult. However, some theories of rationality and morality make living up to these ideals too difficult by imposing requirements which are excessively rigid. In this dissertation, ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1983)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995)
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(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 ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999)
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