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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)Child phonological processes that lack counterparts in adult phonological typology have long posed a problem for formal modeling of phonological acquisition. This dissertation investigates child-specific processes with a ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1978)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)It is a cross-linguistically robust fact that the same modal auxiliaries come in different flavors: epistemic, deontic, ability, teleological... This fact is neatly captured in a system where each modal has a single lexical ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1983)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)This thesis examines and critically assesses five arguments for the autonomy of the political. The arguments I examine are those of Niccol6 Machiavelli, Jean Bodin, Thomas Hobbes, Carl Schmitt, and John Rawls. After ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)This dissertation is concerned with the broad question of why auxiliary verbs occur in natural language. Much previous work has assumed that the occurrence of auxiliary verbs is morphologically or syntactically arbitrary. ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993)
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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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