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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 ...
The effects of frequency and composition on production duration on morphological processing
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
Towards an analysis of Turinese Italian intonation and theoretical implications for intonational phonology
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999)
Digitized data of a northern variety of Standard Italian declarative statements', yes/no questions' and wh-questions' was collected to describe a partial grammar of intonational morphemes in the language and provide an ...
On the notion of theme vowel : a new approach to Catalan verbal morphology
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999)
An introduction to Wampanoag grammar
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)
A list of initials and finals in Wôpanâak
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
This paper consists primarily of lists of initial, medial and final verb morphemes in Wôpanâak. There are also lists of special initials and finals that function in different ways. Along with these lists are brief descriptions ...
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 ...
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 ...