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  • 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, ...
  • Non-verbal predication and head-movement 
    Carnie, Andrew Hay (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995)
  • Not by reasons alone 
    Manne, Kate (Kate Alice) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
    My thesis is a sustained argument that the practical reason is not a suitable master concept in ethics, let alone the only ethical notion we need. In Chapter One, I defend the idea that desires have irreducible and pervasive ...
  • Null and displaced subjects 
    Shlonsky, Ur (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987)
  • Null operator constructions 
    Browning, Marguerite (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987)
  • Null subjects 
    Barbosa, Maria do Pilar Pereira (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995)
  • Object scrambling in Chinese 
    Soh, Hooi Ling, 1968- (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998)
  • On deriving the lexicon 
    Sproat, Richard William (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985)
  • One and the same reason 
    Walden, Kenneth Edward Dale (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
    My dissertation is about the relationship between theoretical and practical reason. I argue that these two kinds of reason are unified in important respects. In Chapter One I argue that there is a single, fundamental kind ...
  • On economizing the theory of A-bar dependencies 
    Tsai, Wei-Tien (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994)
  • On numbers 
    Wetzel, Linda Elizabeth (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1984)
  • On reduced relatives with genitive subjects 
    Krause, Cornelia (Cornelia Ann), 1972- (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
    What is the place of relatives with genitive subjects in a typology of relative clauses? Are they full or reduced, headed or free relatives? Can they appear pre- and postnominally? Can they be head-internal relatives? Are ...
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