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  • Modularity and locality in interpretation 
    Singh, Raj, Ph. D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
    This thesis will argue for four broad claims: (1) That local contexts are needed for a descriptively adequate theory of linguistic interpretation, (2) That presupposition accommodation is made with respect to a set of ...
  • Mood, force and explicit performatives : some notes for a study of mood 
    Rodríguez, Jorge (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990)
  • Moral properties and moral imagination 
    Doggett, Tyler, 1976- (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
    "Moral Realism" is about an argument against moral realism, why it is unsound, and what emerges from that. The argument is that if there were moral properties, they would be queerly related to non-moral properties and this ...
  • Moral relativism and reasons for action 
    Streiffer, Robert (Robert Keith), 1970- (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999)
  • Moral Status 
    Harman, Elizabeth, 1975- (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)
    Chapters One through Three present the following view: (i) I explain moral status as follows: something has moral status just in case we have reasons not to cause harms to it simply in virtue of the badness of the harms ...
  • Morphology after syntax--pronominal clitics in romance 
    Bonet i Alsina, M. Eulàlia (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991)
  • The morphology-phonology interface in signed languages 
    Mathur, Gaurav, 1972- (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)
  • Morphosyntax : the syntax of verbal inflection 
    Bobaljik, Jonathan David (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995)
  • Movement of degree/degree of movement 
    Matushansky, Ora (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
    In this project we examine the DP-internal behavior of degree operators contained in attributive extended APs, specifically degree fronting (so sunny a day) and degree right extraposition (a day sunny enough). We argue ...
  • Multiple case assignments 
    Young, Katherine McCreight (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988)
  • Multiple feature-checking : a theory of grammatical function splitting 
    Ura, Hiroyuki (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996)
  • Natural language and formal languages 
    Maciá Fábrega, Josep (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997)
  • Negation in syntax--on the nature of functional categories and projections 
    Laka Mugarza, Miren Itziar (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990)
  • Neg-raising : polarity and presupposition 
    Gajewski, Jon Robert (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)
    In this thesis, I advance a semantic theory of Neg-Raising rooted in the work of Bartsch (1973) and Heim (2000) and defend it against syntactic and pragmatic alternatives. The primary source of support for my position on ...
  • Nominalizations and aspect 
    Salanova, Andrés Pablo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
    Languages that have aspectually-conditioned ergativity splits generally oppose a "perfect" tense (often called perfective or aorist), with ergative-absolutive case pattern, to an imperfective where case marking follows the ...
  • The Non-Identity Problem 
    Urbanek, Valentina Maria (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)
    Some actions are identity affecting, they affect who will exist in the future. Explaining how identity affecting actions can be wrong has been thought to pose a problem, the Non-Identity Problem. The problem is that an ...
  • Non-sentential assertions 
    Stainton, Robert James Harold (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993)
  • Non-specific objects in the pseudopassive : the syntax and semantics of English pseudo-incorporated pseudopassives 
    Mills, Jillian Louise (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
    This thesis introduces a special form of pseudopassive that differs from previously discussed forms in that it includes a direct object adjacent to the verb. It is shown that the direct object position in this construction ...
  • Non-standard features 
    Egan, Andrew M. (Andrew Michael), 1970- (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
    The dissertation is composed of three papers on properties and their relatives. "Second-Order Predication and the Metaphysics of Properties" argues that giving a happy account of second-order predication motivates us to ...
  • Non-verbal argument structure : evidence from Tagalog 
    Sabbagh, Joseph (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)
    This dissertation examines the syntax and argument structure of non-verbal predicates (focusing primarily on adjectives) in Tagalog. Drawing on evidence from a variety of construction types (including Comparative, Existential, ...
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