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Metrical theory and English verse 

McKay, David Andrew (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997)
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Acquisition of the T and C system in clausal complements 

Norris, Rebecca L. (Rebecca Lynn), 1977- (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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Subset comparatives as comparative quantifiers 

Nussbaum, Miriam Claire (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
This paper motivates and presents a novel analysis of the "subset comparative" construction (e.g. John saw more phonologists than just Mary; John drank more than just coffee). I build on Hackl (2000) and Alxatib (2013)'s ...
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Stress and vowel harmony in Telugu 

Kolachina, Sudheer (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
This thesis presents a study of vowel harmony in Telugu, a Dravidian language. Vowel harmony in this language is manifest primarily in the form of vowel alternations in paradigms triggered by suffixes. I present a robust ...
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Beyond slurs : communicating evaluative perspectives 

Lenehan, Rose (Rose Elizabeth) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)
Slurs have recently received a great deal of attention from philosophers of language. They are thought to be special in both their linguistic properties and their rhetorical effects-that is, in both what they mean and what ...
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Skicinuwatu Toke : speak Passamaquoddy now 

Paul, Roger,S.M.Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
When learning to speak a language like Passamaquoddy, there are many grammatical patterns that one must be able to identify before a dialogue can be understood. In Passamaquoddy, it is extremely important to have a sense ...
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Expletive negation and the decomposition of only 

Margulis, Daniel,S.M.Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)
This thesis is focused on the seemingly superfluous sentential negation showing up in Hebrew until-clauses. I discuss a scalar implicature arising from until-clauses which surprisingly becomes uncancellable when this ...
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Equality: making sense of natural rights. 

Allen, Eric Mark (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1973)
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Intervention effects in German : a contiguity approach 

Hehl, Verena,S.M.Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)
This paper explores to what extent Richards' Contiguity Theory can insightfully be applied to so-called Intervention Effects in German, a set of phenomena which were originally described as constraining the syntax in an ...
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Already : just scalarity 

Zhu, Hanzhi,S.M.Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
The particles still and already are commonly thought of and analyzed as particles that mirror each other. The particle still has been robustly argued to have an additive presupposition in the same vein as particles like ...
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AuthorAllen, Eric Mark (1)Besana, Sveva, 1971- (1)Brohan, Anthony (1)Edwards, Jan (1)Fermino, Jessie Little Doe (Jessie Little Doe Christobal), 1963- (1)Hehl, Verena,S.M.Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (1)Hicks, Nitana (Nitana Christine) (1)Hill, J. D. (Joseph David) (1)Howard, Edwin Martin (1)Katzir Cozier, Franz (1)... View MoreDepartment
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