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  • Interactions with context 
    Swanson, Eric (Eric Peter) (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 ...
  • Interface issues in the English imperative 
    Flagg, Elissa Jill, 1974- (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 ...
  • Internalism and armchair reasoning 
    Krupnick, Ari L. (Ari Lowell) (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 ...
  • Intonation and interface conditions 
    Ishihara, Shinichiro, 1973- (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 ...
  • Intransitive verbs and Italian auxiliaries 
    Burzio, Luigi (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1981)
  • Introducing arguments 
    Pylkkänen, Mariliina, 1973- (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 ...
  • Investigations into grammatical knowledge 
    Saddy, James Douglas, 1952- (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991)
  • Investigations into Polish morphology and phonology 
    Higgins, Ewa Czaykowska (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1989)
  • Investigations of covert phrase movement 
    Nissenbaum, Jonathan W., 1964- (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)
  • Issues in the foundations of cognitive psychology 
    Stabler, Edward Palmer (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1981)
  • Issues in the philosophical foundations of lexical semantics 
    Ulicny, Brian Edward (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993)
  • Issues in the phonology of prominence 
    Meredith, Scott (Scott Emery) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990)
  • Issues in the phonology of Tiberian Hebrew 
    Hovav, Malka Rappaport (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1984)
  • Is there a human right to democracy? 
    Abdul-Matin, Karim (Ishmawil Karim) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
    My dissertation asks whether there is a human right to democracy. This is a difficult question, not least because there is no consensus about either what democracy requires or how to interpret human rights. The introduction ...
  • Japanese syntactic structures and their constructional meanings 
    Kubo, Miori (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992)
  • Jingulu grammar, dictionary, and texts 
    Pensalfini, Robert J (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997)
  • Lessons in smelling : essays on olfactory perception 
    Batty, Clare (Clare E.) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
    This three-paper dissertation focuses on olfactory perception, with each paper exploring an ongoing debate in the perceptual literature through the olfactory 'lens'. Philosophers of perception have typically assumed what ...
  • Lexical phonology 
    Mohanan, Karuvannur Puthanveettil (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982)
  • A lexicographic study of Ulwa 
    Green, Thomas Michael, 1966- (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999)
  • Liberalism and ethical life : on equality, neutrality, and culture 
    Kurtz, Roxanne Marie (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
    Liberalism faces an apparent paradox. Its commitments to values such as neutrality and tolerance seem to recommend a hands-off attitude toward a society's ethical life. It seems the state should not regulate the value ...
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