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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995)
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(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 ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1986)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1977)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)Part I of this dissertation proposes an implicature-based theory of individual-level predicates. The idea is that we cannot say '#John is sometimes tall' because the sentence triggers the scalar implicature that the ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)This dissertation is a study of modality and, in particular, of conditional statements within the framework of possible world semantics. I argue that in order to understand what the meaning of a modal sentence is we need ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1980)
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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, 1993)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1978)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)This dissertation is a study of word structure showing that words exhibit the syntactic phenomenon of phase-by-phase Spell-Out, Chomsky (2001), Marantz (2001). The analysis of data from English and Slovenian indicates that ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)This dissertation asks two main questions for Turkish: (i) what is the interaction between verbal morphology and the structure?, and (ii) what is the interaction between word order and interpretation? Following Kornfilt ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1980)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1978)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988)
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