Browsing Linguistics and Philosophy - Master's degree by Issue Date
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Equality: making sense of natural rights.
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1973) -
Grammatical relations and anaphora in Malayalam
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1981) -
A cross-linguistic study of Broca's aphasia
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1981) -
Discourse interpretation and the temporality of states and events
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987) -
A critical study of imperatives
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995) -
On the Swedish pitch accents
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995) -
On the distribution of Dutch reflexives
(Distributed by MIT Working Papers in Linguistics, MITMassachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996) -
Metrical theory and English verse
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997) -
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) -
An information theoretic approach to veridical hallucination
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)David Lewis, in "Veridical Hallucination and Prosthetic Vision", outlines his views on seeing. He discusses, by way of several examples, unusual visual conditions and gives explanations of why one does or does not see in ... -
Acquisition of the T and C system in clausal complements
(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 ... -
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 ... -
Non-specific objects in the pseudopassive : the syntax and semantics of English pseudo-incorporated pseudopassives
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)This thesis introduces a special form of pseudopassive that differs from previously discussed forms in that it includes a direct object adjacent to the verb. It is shown that the direct object position in this construction ... -
Syllabification and syllable weight in Ancient Greek songs
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)This thesis is about phonetic events, phonetic representations, and the grammatical constraints on those representations, with respect to one particular phonetic dimension: time. It focuses on a process called beat mapping, ... -
The effects of frequency and composition on production duration on morphological processing
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008) -
The role of perception in phonotactic constraints : evidence from Trinidad English
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)This thesis demonstrates that perception plays a role in computing grammatical well-formedness. This is shown specifically for grammatical constraints on word-final consonant cluster inventories (VC 1 C2#), with focus on ... -
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. ...
