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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1984)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1986)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)The focus of this dissertation is the syntax and morphology of case, and how case interacts with A-movement and agreement. In chapter 1, I argue on the basis of novel data from Uyghur that noun phrases bearing structural ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1979)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1989)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985)
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1986)
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(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 ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)
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(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 ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
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(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 ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1984)
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(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. ...
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