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Aspects of A
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997)
Counterfactuals, dispositions, and conscious experience : essays on entropy
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
Chapter 1 of this thesis concerns counterfactual conditionals. David Lewis has offered a natural and influential analysis of counterfactuals. But the analysis fails to take into account the asymmetry of entropy, and comes ...
Structure and stress in the phonology of Russian
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990)
Perceptual experience : relations and representations/
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
The aim of this dissertation is to elaborate and assess the Relational View of perceptual experience, and to compare it to its main rival, the Representational View. Roughly stated, the core claim of the Relational View ...
A theory of individual-level predicates based on blind mandatory implicatures : constraint promotion for optimality theory
(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 ...
Making "implicit" explicit--toward an account of implicit linguistic knowledge
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991)
A/A-bar partition in derivation
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993)
The crucial role of proof--a classical defense against mathematical empiricism
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993)
Adjunctions and projections in syntax
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1986)
The Logic of Principia Mathematica
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995)