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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)This thesis makes the following three claims: (1) Competition exists in natural language: the grammaticality (and meaning) of using a linguistic object 0 can be affected by the grammaticality (and meaning) of a different ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1984)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)This thesis examines the syntax of Tagalog with a particular focus on argument structure and its implications for clause structure. Through cross-linguistic comparison I show that Tagalog syntax is not as exotic as is often ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1986)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)This thesis is about phonetic events, phonetic representations, and the grammatical constraints on those representations, with respect to one particular phonetic dimension: time. It focuses on a process called beat mapping, ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1984)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)Through the study of floating quantifiers in a variety of languages, I demonstrate that floating quantification is not a uniform phenomenon and outline a series of puzzles that force us to adopt a two-part analysis. I argue ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)In this thesis, I investigate the question of how the units of a linguistic expression are linearly ordered in syntax. In particular, I examine interactions between locality conditions on movement and the mapping between ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1983)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)(cont.) I suggest that the control principles are intact, and that a separate aspect of grammar is responsible for these non-adult interpretations. I argue that adjunct attachment height, which is crucial to determining ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)This thesis investigates relative clauses (henceforth RCs) in Mandarin Chinese as spoken in Taiwan from both syntactic and processing perspectives. I also explore the interaction between these two areas, for example, how ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)(cont.) (iii) covert operations such as reconstruction and type raising are constrained by an economy principle so that they are disallowed when not motivated.
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