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Iñupiatun Iñuguġlavut Miqłiqtuvut is a language learning guide dedicated to reclaiming the Iñupiaq language in the home. Linguists usually create records primarily for scientific purposes and secondarily for language ...

A window broke and Annie was involved. What’s of moral importance in a situation like this? Not whether Annie caused the window to break and not whether the window wouldn’t have broken if it weren’t for Annie. What’s morally ...

This dissertation analyzes a number topical issues in Bùlì syntax as a way of contributing to both the theoretical and typological literature in the area of clausal complementation, control, serial verb constructions, ...

This thesis is dedicated to two strong island effects: The Subject Condition and The Adjunct Condition. Both effects can be unified under a single generalization, known as Condition on Extraction Domain, or CED (Cattell, ...

This dissertation is an experiment in interdisciplinary feminist philosophy of science. It explores an extremely broad question—what is the relationship between science and social values? —by interweaving three families ...

This thesis is a study of two levels of nominal licensing illustrated by bare nominals (BN) in Wolof: licensing of the BN itself and licensing at the level of its features. The former can be seen in the restrictions imposed ...

This thesis asks the following question: what can wh-movement teach us about verb phrase structure? I examine two apparent interactions between wh-movement and Voice: Mayan Agent Focus and the Double Object Movement Asymmetry ...

This thesis is an investigation of what happens when an ellipsis boundary tries to split a portmanteau. It focuses on two patterns: elliptical indivisibility, and elliptical divisibility. Elliptical indivisibility is ...

Since Schein (1996), cumulative readings of quantifiers have often motivated a departure from standard assumptions about composition. This dissertation proposes a new theory of these cumulative readings that connects them ...

This thesis consists of four chapters on the grammar of Koryak, a highly-endangered Chukotko-Kamchatkan language of the Russian Far East. In the first chapter, I argue that the distribution of the segments v and w in ...