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  • Datives at large 
    Cuervo, Maria Cristina (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)
    This dissertation is a study of the syntactic and semantic properties of dative arguments. The main source of data is Spanish, where dative arguments can appear with all types of verbs, and can have a wide range of meanings: ...
  • Decomposing questions 
    Hagstrom, Paul Alan, 1971- (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998)
  • Decompositionality and identity 
    Takahashi, Shoichi, Ph. D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
    The Scope of quantificational phrases (QPs) is often not represented in surface structures, in the sense that a constituent that is, on the surface, sister to a QP is not necessarily interpreted as its argument semantically. ...
  • A defense of intentional realism 
    Klempner, Erica D. (Erica Diane) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997)
  • Deletion, deaccenting, and presupposition 
    Tancredi, Christopher Damian (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992)
  • De de se 
    Anand, Pranav (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
    In this dissertation, I argue against a unitary treatment of individual de se ascription. Based on consideration of Yoruba logophors and English dream-report pronouns, I show that one mechanism is best analyzed as binding ...
  • Desire, belief, and conditional belief 
    Etlin, David Jeffrey (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
    This dissertation studies the logics of value and conditionals, and the question of whether they should be given cognitivist analyses. Emotivist theories treat value judgments as expressions of desire, rather than beliefs ...
  • Desires and dispositions 
    Ashwell, Lauren Mary (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
    In philosophy of mind, desire is an also-ran when it comes to theorizing about mental states - all the attention is on belief, (visual) perceptual experience, and pain. Desire is largely ignored, as it is assumed to be ...
  • Dialogue games : an approach to discourse analysis 
    Carlson, Lauri Henrik (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982)
  • Dimensions of symmetry in syntax : agreement and clausal architecture 
    Hiraiwa, Ken, 1974- (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)
    (cont.) are, then, determined at phase levels by late insertion of categorial features. One crucial aspect of the proposed theory of structural symmetry involves interweaving effects, which emerge as categorial determination ...
  • The distributive aspects of social justice. 
    Foster, Susan Jane (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1977)
  • Economic inequalities and choice : a reassessment of Ronald Dworkin's theory of distributive justice 
    Sofaer, Neema, 1972- (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
    This dissertation proposes a new reading and appraisal of an important theory of distributive justice, Ronald Dworkin's "Equality of Resources" (ER). ER is traditional in holding that choices made by rational, ignorant and ...
  • Economy and semantic interpretation : a study of scope and variable binding 
    Fox, Daniel J. (Daniel Judah), 1966- (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998)
  • Edges and linearization 
    Trinh, Tue H. (Tue Huu) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
    This thesis is concerned with how grammar determines the phonological consequence of syntactic dislocation. It centers on a hypothesis regarding the linearization of movement chains - the Edge Condition on Copy Deletion, ...
  • The effects of frequency and composition on production duration on morphological processing 
    Tapio, Sophia (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
  • Effects of head-movement on theories of subjacency and proper government 
    Law, Paul S (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991)
  • Elementos de gramatica del miskito 
    Salamanca, Danilo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988)
  • Elements of control 
    Landau, Idan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999)
  • Elements of number theory 
    Harbour, Daniel, 1975- (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)
    The dissertation argues for the necessity of a morphosemantic theory of number, that is, a theory of number serviceable both to semantics and morphology. The basis for this position, and the empirical core of the dissertation, ...
  • Embedded interrogatives and predicates that embed them 
    Lahiri, Utpal (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991)
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