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Browsing Theses - Linguistics and Philosophy by Title
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)This thesis is about multidominance or sharing in syntax. The term sharing is used in a technical sense, to refer to a situation where a syntactic node has more than one mother. I assume that multidominance is allowed by ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1989)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)In order to discover how children acquire the T(ense) and C(omplementizer) system, finite and nonfinite embedded clauses produced by children in the CHILDES database were studied. It was discovered that young children often ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)My dissertation consists of three essays in the Metaphysics of Modality: In "A Puzzle about Truth and Singular Propositions," I consider two theses that seem to be true and then an argument for the conclusion that they ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1986)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1984)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)In this thesis, I argue that the obligatory nature of agreement in [phi]-features (henceforth, [phi]-agreement) cannot be captured by appealing to "derivational time-bombs"-elements of the initial representation that cannot ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)In this thesis I demonstrate that a simplified theory of locality \ has greater success in accounting for locality in movement than more complicated alternatives that have been suggested. In particular, I argue that closeness ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1980)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)Antidepressants and bioenhancement technologies raise special concerns - both for those who use them and those who don't - about who we are and how we should treat ourselves. In this dissertation, I confront these concerns ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)This dissertation investigates the constraints on referential dependency relations that can hold between epithets and their antecedents under c-command. The initial observation, presented here in (1), is that epithets can ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)In this thesis, I examine some core grammatical phenomena - case licensing, agreement, the EPP - through the lens of the Bantu language Zulu. Zulu has a number of remarkable and puzzling properties whose analysis affords ...
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