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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, 1998)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1984)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1979)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)My dissertation asks how we affect conversational context and how it affects us when we participate in any conversation -- including philosophical conversations. Chapter 1 argues that speakers make pragmatic presuppositions ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)Two puzzles in the syntax of the English imperative are treated here as consequences of interface conditions. The first concerns the inability of certain predicates to take an overt subject in the imperative. The second ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)In this thesis, I try to answer some basic questions about the a priori. Namely, what is it supposed to be? Should we believe in its existence? And is it important? Chapter One, "The Problem of Forgotten Evidence," sets ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)Abstract This dissertation concerns three kinds of variability that pose challenges for the compositional semantics of question-embedding sentences: (i) lexical variation among clause-embedding predicates with respect to ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)The thesis presents a theoretical and experimental investigation of the interaction between focus intonation pattern (FIP) and certain syntactic phenomena-especially those involving wh-questions-in Japanese. A phonological ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1981)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)Verbal arguments can be divided into two different types: those that are true arguments of the verb and those that are "additional" in the sense that there is evidence that they do not belong to the basic argument structure ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991)
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