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Structure and stress in the phonology of Russian
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990)
Crossing and nested paths--NP movement in accusative and ergative languages
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992)
On the metaphysics of belief
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998)
There is a traditional picture of belief, according to which someone's having a belief is that person's standing in a certain relation to an abstract object, a proposition. My dissertation examines the metaphysical demands ...
On the making and meaning of chains
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998)
This thesis investigates the mechanisms applying in the interpretation of syntactic chains. The theoretical background includes a translation of syntactic forms into semantic forms and a model theoretic explication of the ...
Belief in semantics and psychology
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994)
Making "implicit" explicit--toward an account of implicit linguistic knowledge
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991)
Conditions on x-̊movement
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990)
Classical and connectionist models of cognition
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990)
Decomposing questions
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998)
The primary proposal of this thesis that in questions, a "Q morpheme must undergo syntactic movement from a clause-internal position to a clause-peripheral position. Throughout this thesis, we develop a syntactic analysis ...
Propositional attitudes and indexicality : a cross categorial approach
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999)
Universal Grammar uses the same distinctions (features) and the same interpretive procedures for reference to individuals, times, and possible worlds. We give a partial argument for this hypothesis: person, tense and (maybe) ...