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Intervention effects in German : a contiguity approach
(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 ...
Already : just scalarity
(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 ...
Subset comparatives as comparative quantifiers
(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 ...
Beyond slurs : communicating evaluative perspectives
(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 ...
Peskotomuhkati latuwewakon (Passamaquoddy language)
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)
Over the decades, Passamaquoddy has been taught in many ways and many forms. Some have tried using object identification and word(s) learning while others have tried teaching writing and reading via a phonetic form of ...
Stress and vowel harmony in Telugu
(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 ...
Skicinuwatu Toke : speak Passamaquoddy now
(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 ...
Expletive negation and the decomposition of only
(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 ...
Superlative degree clauses : evidence from NPI licensing
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
This paper concerns itself with the superlative morpheme -est and its ability to license Negative Polarity Items (NPIs) such as any or ever, and in particular the compositional analysis of a puzzling type of utterance which ...
Analytic bias in coocurrence restrictions
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
The representation, content and learning of phonotactic constraints has spurred a lot of recent research phonology. This work concerns the constraints involved in the representation of place-based coocurrence restrictions. ...