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Linguistics and Philosophy - Ph.D. / Sc.D.

 

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  • Argument licensing and agreement in Zulu 
    Halpert, Claire (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 ...
  • Temporal implicatures 
    Thomas, Guillaume (Guillaume Pierre Yves) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
    This dissertation proposes a theory of temporal implicatures, and applies it to the study of tense in Mbyá Guaraní. It is composed of two parts. In the first one, I discuss the analyses of temporal implicatures developed ...
  • On the semantics of phi features on pronouns 
    Sudo, Yasutada, Ph. D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
    This thesis investigates three topics relating to the semantics of phi features on pronouns. Part I focuses on gender features on pronouns. Following previous studies (Cooper 1983, Heim & Kratzer 1998), I claim that they ...
  • (Anti-)locality at the interfaces 
    Patel-Grosz, Pritty (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 ...
  • Praise without perfection 
    Sliwa, Paulina Anna (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
    This dissertation is about agents like us, who are both epistemically flawed and morally imperfect. First, how should such agents form and revise their moral beliefs? Second, how should we morally evaluate the actions of ...
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