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Object scrambling in Chinese

Soh, Hooi Ling, 1968- (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998)
On deriving the lexicon

Sproat, Richard William (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985)
One and the same reason

Walden, Kenneth Edward Dale (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)

My dissertation is about the relationship between theoretical and practical reason. I argue that these two kinds of reason are unified in important respects. In Chapter One I argue that there is a single, fundamental kind ...
On economizing the theory of A-bar dependencies

Tsai, Wei-Tien (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994)
On numbers

Wetzel, Linda Elizabeth (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1984)
On reduced relatives with genitive subjects

Krause, Cornelia (Cornelia Ann), 1972- (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)

What is the place of relatives with genitive subjects in a typology of relative clauses? Are they full or reduced, headed or free relatives? Can they appear pre- and postnominally? Can they be head-internal relatives? Are ...
On some issues concerning symbols and the study of cognition

Lebed, Jay Aaron (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988)
On some phonologically-null elements in syntax

Jaeggli, Osvaldo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1980)
On the content of empty categories

Bouchard, Denis (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982)
On the grammar of optative constructions

Grosz, Patrick Georg (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)

The primary aim of this dissertation is to present an analysis for so-called optative constructions, clauses that express a wish, hope or desire without containing a lexical item that means 'wish', 'hope' or 'desire'. A ...
On the interaction of morphology and syntax

Farmer, Ann Kathleen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1980)
On the interpretation of concealed questions

Nathan, Lance Edward (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)

Determiner phrases have the ability to act as "concealed questions" (CQs), embedded questions in sentences like John knows the time (i.e., John knows what time it is). The fact that know and wonder differ in their ability ...
On the making and meaning of chains

Sauerland, Ulrich, 1969- (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998)
On the metaphysics of belief

Spencer, Cara (Cara J.), 1971- (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998)
On the metaphysics of numbers

Page, James Hampton (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990)
On the nature of grammatical relations

Marantz, Alec (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1981)
On the nature of tone

Bao, Zhiming (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990)
On the organization of the lexicon.

Lieber, Rochelle (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1980)
On the relationship of the lexicon to syntax

Zubizarreta, Maria Luisa (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982)
On the semantics of phi features on pronouns

Sudo, Yasutada, Ph. D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)

This thesis investigates three topics relating to the semantics of phi features on pronouns. Part I focuses on gender features on pronouns. Following previous studies (Cooper 1983, Heim & Kratzer 1998), I claim that they ...

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