Browsing Linguistics and Philosophy - Ph.D. / Sc.D. by Title
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Help! not just anybody : essays on altruism and conflicts of interest
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)If you can help someone without detriment to your interest, nor anyone else's interest, then it is clear that you ought to do so. But things are not always so easy. When there is a conflict of interest, you have to decide ... -
Hilbert's thesis : some considerations about formalizations of mathematics
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982) -
How some so-called "thematic roles" that select animate arguments are generated, and how these roles inform control
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994) -
Identity and quantification
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985) -
Ignorance and grammar
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)In this thesis, I propose a new theory of implicature. I argue that the two main theories available so far - the (Neo-)Gricean pragmatic theory on the one hand (e.g., Sauerland (2004)), and the hybrid grammatical theory ... -
Imagination, content, and the self
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)I begin with a discussion of two ways of imagining something: 'from the inside' and 'from the outside'. My interest in this topic is two-fold: First, I want to see what studying this topic can teach us about the nature of ... -
Imaging neural correlates of syntactic complexity in a naturalistic context
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)The aim of this thesis, and the research project within which it is embedded, is to delineate a neural model of grammatical competence. For this purpose, we develop here a novel integrated, multi-disciplinary experimental ... -
Implicatures in the DP domain
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)In this thesis, I investigate a set of apparently disparate phenomena that relate, more or less closely, to the interpretation of Determiner Phrases (DPs): the restrictiveness effects associated with NP modification, the ... -
Imprecision in normative domains
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)Being rational and being moral can be difficult. However, some theories of rationality and morality make living up to these ideals too difficult by imposing requirements which are excessively rigid. In this dissertation, ... -
Impredicativity and turn of the century foundations of mathematics : presupposition in Poincare and Russell
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993) -
In defense of a linguistic model for reflective equilibrium in ethics
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990) -
In defense of ethics
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1983) -
In deference to reference
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987) -
Incorporation, a theory of grammatical function changing
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985) -
Indefinite topics
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995) -
Indo-European reduplication : synchrony, diachrony, and theory
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)The reduplicative systems of the ancient Indo-European languages are characterized by an unusual alternation in the shape of the reduplicant. The related languages Ancient Greek, Gothic, and Sanskrit share the property ... -
Infinitives
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998) -
Infinity and experience
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999)This dissertation explores the relationship between our experience and knowledge of the infinite. The first chapter is a critical examination of Shaughan Lavine's project in Understanding the Infinite. Lavine argues that ... -
INFL in child and adult language : agreement, case and licensing
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997) -
An inflexible semantics for cross-categorial operators
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)This thesis studies operators such as and and only, which occur in a broad range of environments. And, for instance, appears between sentences, intransitive verbs, quantifiers, and so forth. One line of analysis assigns ...
