MIT Linguistics Dissertations by Author

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Abney (1987) The English Noun Phrase In Its Sentential Aspect

Aguero-Bautista (2001) Cyclicity and the Scope of Wh-Phrases

Alexander (1990) Agreement Configurations: Grammatical Relations in Modular Grammar

Andrews (1975) Syntax of Relative and Comparative Clauses

Archangeli (1984) Underspecification in Yawelmani Phonology and Morphology

Aronoff(1974) Word-Structure

Avrutin (1994) Psycholinguistic Investigations in the Theory of Reference

Babyonyshev (1996) Structural Connections in Syntax and Processing: Studies in Russian and Japanese

Baltin (1978) Toward a Theory of Movement Rules

Bao Zhiming (1990) On The Nature of Tone

Bedell (1968) Kokugaku Grammatical Theory

Bissell Doggett (2004) All things being unequal: locality in movement

Bobaljik (1995) Morphosyntax: The Syntax of Verbal Inflection

Boivin (2000) Split Noun Phases and the Theory of Case

Bonet (1991) Morphology after Syntax

Branigan (1992) Subjects and Complementizers

Browning (1987) Null Operator Constructions

Bruening (2001): Syntax at the Edge: Cross-Clausal Phenomena and the Syntax of Passamaquoddy

Burzio (1981) Intransitive Verbs and Italian Auxiliaries

Calabrese (1988) Towards A Theory of Phonological Alphabets

Carnie (1995) Non-Verbal Predication and Head-Movement

Carrier (1979) The Interaction of Morphological and Phonological Rules in Tagalog

Chapin (1967) On the Syntax of Word-Derivation in English

Cheng (1991) On the Typology of Wh-Questions

Choe (1988) Restructuring Parameters and Complex Predicates: A Transformational Account

Collins (1993) Topics in Ewe Syntax

Copley (2002) The Semantics of the Future.

Côté (2001) Consonant Cluster Phonotactics: a Perceptual Approach

Cresti (1995) Indefinite Topics

Culicover (1971) Syntactic and Semantic Investigations

Czaykowska-Higgins (1988) Investigations Into Polish Morphology And Phonology

Demirdache (1991) Resumptive Chains In Restrictive Relatives, Appositives and Dislocation Structures

Déprez (1989) On the Typology of Syntactic Positions and the Nature of Chains

Duanmu San (1990) Syllable, Tone, Stress and Domain in Chinese

Fabb (1984) Syntactic Affixation

Faraci (1974) Aspects of the Grammar of Infinitives and For-Phrases

Fiengo (1974) Semantic Conditions on Surface Structure

Fukui (1986) Category Projection and Its Applications

Gillon (1984) The Logical Form of Quantification and Plurality

Goldsmith (1976) Autosegmental Phonology

Gruber (1965) Studies in Lexical Relations

Hackl (2000): Comparative Quantifiers

Hagstrom (1998) Decomposing Questions

Haraguchi (1975) The Tone Pattern of Japanese: An Autosegmental Theory of Tonology

Harbour (2003) Elements of number theory

Harley (1995) Subjects, Events and Licensing

Hayes (1980) A Metrical Theory of Stress Rules

Hegarty (1991) Adjunct Extraction and Chain Configurations

Hoffman (1991) The Syntax of Argument-Structure-Changing Morphology

Huang (1982) Logical Relations in Chinese & Theory of Grammar

Ionin (2003) Article semantics in second language acquisition

Ippolito (2002) The Time of Possibilities: Truth and Felicity of Subjunctive Conditionals

Iatridou (1991) Topics in Conditionals

Idsardi (1992) The Computation of Prosody

Jenkins (1972) Modality in English Syntax

Jones (1993) Binding as an Interface Condition: An Investigation of Hindi Scrambling

Kang, Myung-Yoon (1988) Topics In Korean Syntax: Phrase Structure, Variable Binding And Movement

Kang, Yoonjung (2000): The Phonetics and Phonology of Coronal Markedness and Unmarkedness

Kean (1975) Theory of Markedness in Generative Grammar

Kearns (1991) The Semantics of the English Progressive

Kegl (1985) Locative Relations in ASL

Kelepir (2001) Topics in Turkish Syntax: Clausal Structure and Scope

Kipka (1990) Slavic Aspect and Its Implications

Koizumi (1995) Phrase Structure in Minimalist Syntax

Krause (2001): On Reduced Relatives with Genitive Subjects

Kroch (1974) The Semantics of Scope in English

Kubo (1992) Japanese Syntactic Structures and their Constructional Meanings

Lahiri (1991) Embedded Interrogatives and Predicates That Embed Them

Laka (1990) Negation in Syntax: On the Nature of Functional Categories and Projections

Lasnik (1972) Analyses of Negation in English

Law (1991) Effects of Head Movement on Theories of Subjacency and Proper Government

Legate (2003) Warlpiri: theoretical implications

Levin, B (1983) On the Nature of Ergativity

Levin, L (1986) On Accusative Rules in Germanic Languages

Li Yafei (1990) Conditions on X0 Movement

Lieber (1980) On the Organization of the Lexicon

Linebarger (1980) The Grammar of Negative Polarity

Lumsden (1987) Syntactic Features: Parametric Variation in the History of English

Mathur (2001): Verb Agreement as Alignment in Signed Languages

McCarthy (1979) Formal Problems in Semitic Phonology and Morphology

McCreight (1988) Multiple Case Assignments

McGinnis (1998) Locality in A-Movement

Mahajan (1990) On the A-A' Distinction

Maling (1973) The Theory of Classical Arabic Metrics

Manzini (1983) Restructuring and Reanalysis

Marvin (2002) Topics in the Stress and Syntax of Words

Massam (1985) Case Theory and the Projection Principle

Matushansky (2002) Movement of Degree/Degree of Movement

Melvold (1990) Structure and Stress in the Phonology of Russian

Meredith (1990) Issues In The Phonology of Prominence

Milsark (1974) Existential Sentences in English

Minkoff (1994) How Some So-Called 'Thematic Roles' that Generate Animate Arguments are Generated, and How They Inform Binding and Control

Moltmann (1992) Coordination & Comparatives

Murasugi (1992) Crossing and Nested Paths: NP Movement in Accusative and Ergative Languages

Musan (1995) On the Temporal Interpretation of Noun Phrases

Nash (1980) Topics in Warlpiri Grammar

Nissenbaum (2001): Investigations of covert phrase movement

Noyer (1992) Features, Positions and Affixes in Autonomous Morphological Structure

Oehrle (1976) The Grammatical Status of the English Dative Alternation

Ostler (1979) Case Linking

Pensalfini (1997) Jingulu Grammar, Dictionary, and Texts

Pesetsky (1982) Paths and Categories

Phillips (1996) Order and Structure

Pylkkanen (2002): Introducing Arguments

Rakowski (2002) The Structure of Tagalog: Specificity, Voice and the Distribution of Arguments

Rapoport, T (1987) Copular, Nominal, and Small Clauses

Rappaport, M (1984) Issues in the Phonology of Tiberian Hebrew

Reinhart (1976) The Syntactic Domain of Anaphora

Richards (1997) What Moves Where When in Which Language?

Ristad (1990) Computational Structure of Human Language

Roberts (2000) Clitics and agreement

Rochette (1988) Semantic and Syntactic Aspects of Romance Sentential Complementation

Safir (1982) Syntactic Chains and the Definiteness Effect

Sag (1976) Deletion and Logical Form

Sagey (1986) Features and Relations in Nonlinear Phonology

Saito (1985) Asymmetries in Japanese - Theoretical Implications

Sauerland (1998) The Meaning of Chains

Schütze (1997) INFL in Child and Adult Language: Agreement, Case, and Licensing

Senghas (1995) Children's Contribution to the Birth of Nicaraguan Sign Language

Shlonsky (1987) Null and Displaced Subjects

Siegel (1974) Topics in English Morphology

Sietsema (1989) Metrical Dependencies in Tone Assignment

Simpson (1983) Aspects of Warlpiri Morphology and Syntax

Sloan (1991) Syllables and Templates

Snyder (1995) Language Acquisition and Language Variation: The Role of Morphology

Soh (1998) Object Scrambling in Chinese

Speas (1986) Adjunctions and Projections in Syntax

Sportiche (1983) Structural Invariance and Symmetry in Syntax

Sproat (1985) On Deriving the Lexicon

Steriade (1982) Greek Prosodies & the Nature of Syllabification

Stromswold (1990) Learnability and the Acquisition of Auxiliaries

Tancredi (1992) Deletion, Deaccenting and Presupposition

Tenny (1987) Grammaticalizing Aspect and Affectedness

Travis (1984) Parameters and Effects of Word Order Variation

Trigo-Ferre (1988) Derivation and Behavior of Nasal Glides

Truckenbrodt (1995) Phonological Phrases: Their Relation to Syntax, Focus, and Prominence

Tsai (1994) On Economizing the Theory of A-bar Dependencies

Ura (1996) Multiple Feature-Checking: A Theory of Grammatical Function Splitting

Wasow (1972) Anaphoric Relations in English

Watanabe (1993) Agr-Based Case Theory and its Interaction with the A-bar System

Weinberg (1988) Locality Principles in Syntax and Processing

Williams (1974) Rule Ordering in Syntax

Yang (2000) Knowledge and Learning in Natural Language

Yip (1980) The Tonal Phonology of Chinese

Zubizarreta (1982) On the relationship of the lexicon to syntax

Zwicky (1965) Topics in Sanskrit Phonology


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