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  • A case study in the syntax of agreement : Hebrew noun phrases and Benoni verb phrases 
    Ritter, Elizabeth Ann (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1989)
  • Case theory and the Projection Principle 
    Massam, Diane (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985)
  • The causal and the moral 
    Sartorio, Ana Carolina, 1972- (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)
    My dissertation is about the following two questions: The causal question: When is something a cause of something else? The moral question: When is someone morally responsible for something? I examine the way in which these ...
  • Causal efficacy and externalist mental content 
    Newman, Anthony E. (Anthony Edison), 1970- (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
    Internalism about mental content is the view that microphysical duplicates must be mental duplicates as well. This dissertation develops and defends the idea that only a strong version of internalism is compatible with our ...
  • Causation and evidence 
    Schumacher, Melissa Renée (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)
    This work addresses questions about causation and evidence: How can we learn what causes what? Can we get evidence for objects that don't cause anything? And what is the evidential relationship between events in a causal ...
  • Causation in metaphysics and moral theory 
    McGrath, Sarah, 1972- (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
    Chapter 1: The causal relata. Ordinary talk suggests that entities from different ontological categories can cause and be caused: Kathy's throw, the fact that Kathy threw, and Kathy herself can all cause the window to ...
  • Chains and anaphoric dependence : on reconstruction and its implications 
    Barss, Andrew (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1986)
    This thesis is concerned with developing an account within the Government and Binding (GB) theory of the grammaticality of such structures as (1), and exploring the implications of this account for the theory of empty ...
  • Chance, indeterminacy, and explanation 
    Emery, Nina R. (Nina Rebecca) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
    This thesis is about the philosophical and scientific significance of chance. Specifically, I ask whether there is a single notion of chance that both plays a well-defined scientific role and proves useful for various ...
  • Classical and connectionist models of cognition 
    Lormand, Eric Paul (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990)
  • Clause chaining, switch reference and coordination 
    Nonato, Rafael (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
    In this thesis I ponder over a constellation of phenomena that revolve around switch reference and coordination, drawing mainly on their instantiation in Kisedje (Je, Brazil). I start by investigating Klsedje's case system. ...
  • Clitics and agreement 
    Roberts, Taylor, 1967- (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)
    A phrase structure is developed for Pashto, the most important Indo-Iranian language for which this task remains to be undertaken. New data show that the placement, ordering, and interpretation of second-position clitics ...
  • Communicative efficiency in the lexicon 
    Graff, Peter Nepomuk Herwig Maria (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
    In this dissertation, I argue that a variety of probabilistic patterns in natural language phonology derive from communicative efficiency. I present evidence from phonetically transcribed dictionaries of 60 languages from ...
  • Comparative quantifiers 
    Hackl, Martin, 1968- (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
    The main goal of the thesis is to present a novel analysis of comparative quantifiers such as more than three students. The prevalent view on such expressions advocated in Generalized Quantifier Theory is that they denoted ...
  • Complementation in Chol (Mayan) : a theory of split ergativity : 
    Coon, Jessica (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)
    The central claim of this dissertation is that aspect-based split ergativity does not mark a split in how Case is assigned, but rather, a split in sentence structure. Specifically, I argue that the contexts in which we ...
  • Complementation in Moroccan Arabic 
    Wager, Janet Stephanie (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1984)
  • Composing questions 
    Kotek, Hadas (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
    This dissertation motivates a new syntax and semantics for simplex and multiple wh-questions, concentrating on English and German data. The proposed theory combines Cable's (2007; 2010) Q-based syntax for wh-movement and ...
  • Compression effects, perceptual asymmetries, and the grammar of timing 
    Katz, Jonah (Jonah Isaac) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)
    This dissertation reports the results of two English experiments on timing and perception. The first experiment demonstrates asymmetries in timing between consonants and vowels, which depend on the manner of the consonant. ...
  • The computation of prosody 
    Idsardi, William James (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992)
  • Conditions on (dis)harmony 
    Nevins, Andrew (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)
    (cont.) Chapter 4 turns to microvariation within the (dis)harmony system of a single language, examining transparency variation in Hungarian front vowels, and distance-based variation in Hungarian neutral vowel sequences, ...
  • Conditions on x-̊movement 
    Li, Yafei (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990)
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