MIT Linguistics Dissertations by Date

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

Legate (2003) Warlpiri: theoretical implications

Ionin (2003) Article semantics in second language acquisition

Harbour (2003) Elements of number theory

Hackl (2002) Comparative quantifiers

Copley (2002) The Semantics of the Future.

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

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

Matushansky (2002) Movement of Degree/Degree of Movement

Pylkkanen (2002): Introducing Arguments

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

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

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

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

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

Krause (2001): On Reduced Relatives with Genitive Subjects

Côté (2001): Consonant Cluster Phonotactics: a Perceptual Approach

Nissenbaum (2001): Investigations of Covert Phrase Movement

Hackl (2000): Comparative Quantifiers

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

Yang (2000) Knowledge and Learning in Natural Language

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

Roberts (2000) Clitics and agreement

Hagstrom (1998) Decomposing Questions

McGinnis (1998) Locality in A-Movement

Sauerland (1998) The Meaning of Chains

Soh (1998) Object Scrambling in Chinese

Pensalfini (1997) Jingulu Grammar, Dictionary, and Texts

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

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

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

Phillips (1996) Order and Structure

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

Bobaljik (1995) Morphosyntax: The Syntax of Verbal Inflection

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

Cresti (1995) Indefinite Topics

Harley (1995) Subjects, Events and Licensing

Koizumi (1995) Phrase Structure in Minimalist Syntax

Musan (1995) On the Temporal Interpretation of Noun Phrases

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

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

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

Avrutin (1994) Psycholinguistic Investigations in the Theory of Reference

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

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

Collins (1993) Topics in Ewe Syntax

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

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

Branigan (1992) Subjects and Complementizers

Idsardi (1992) The Computation of Prosody

Kubo (1992) Japanese Syntactic Structures and their Constructional Meanings

Moltmann (1992) Coordination & Comparatives

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

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

Tancredi (1992) Deletion, Deaccenting and Presupposition

Bonet (1991) Morphology after Syntax

Cheng (1991) On the Typology of Wh-Questions

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

Hegarty (1991) Adjunct Extraction and Chain Configurations

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

Iatridou (1991) Topics in Conditionals

Kearns (1991) The Semantics of the English Progressive

Lahiri (1991) Embedded Interrogatives and Predicates That Embed Them

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

Sloan (1991) Syllables and Templates

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

Bao Zhiming (1990) On The Nature of Tone

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

Kipka (1990) Slavic Aspect and Its Implications

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

Li Yafei (1990) Conditions on X0 Movement

Mahajan (1990) On the A-A' Distinction

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

Meredith (1990) Issues In The Phonology of Prominence

Ristad (1990) Computational Structure of Human Language

Stromswold (1990) Learnability and the Acquisition of Auxiliaries

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

Sietsema (1989) Metrical Dependencies in Tone Assignment

Calabrese (1988) Towards A Theory of Phonological Alphabets

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

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

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

McCreight (1988) Multiple Case Assignments

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

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

Weinberg (1988) Locality Principles in Syntax and Processing

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

Browning (1987) Null Operator Constructions

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

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

Shlonsky (1987) Null and Displaced Subjects

Tenny (1987) Grammaticalizing Aspect and Affectedness

Fukui (1986) Category Projection and Its Applications

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

Sagey (1986) Features and Relations in Nonlinear Phonology

Speas (1986) Adjunctions and Projections in Syntax

Kegl (1985) Locative Relations in ASL

Massam (1985) Case Theory and the Projection Principle

Saito (1985) Asymmetries in Japanese - Theoretical Implications

Sproat (1985) On Deriving the Lexicon

Archangeli (1984) Underspecification in Yawelmani Phonology and Morphology

Fabb (1984) Syntactic Affixation

Gillon (1984) The Logical Form of Quantification and Plurality

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

Travis (1984) Parameters and Effects of Word Order Variation

Levin, B (1983) On the Nature of Ergativity

Manzini (1983) Restructuring and Reanalysis

Simpson (1983) Aspects of Warlpiri Morphology and Syntax

Sportiche (1983) Structural Invariance and Symmetry in Syntax

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

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

Pesetsky (1982) Paths and Categories

Safir (1982) Syntactic Chains and the Definiteness Effect

Steriade (1982) Greek Prosodies & the Nature of Syllabification

Burzio (1981) Intransitive Verbs and Italian Auxliaries

Hayes (1980) A Metrical Theory of Stress Rules

Lieber (1980) On the Organization of the Lexicon

Linebarger (1980) The Grammar of Negative Polarity

Nash (1980) Topics in Warlpiri Grammar

Yip (1980) The Tonal Phonology of Chinese

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

McCarthy (1979) Formal Problems in Semitic Phonology and Morphology

Ostler (1979) Case Linking

Baltin (1978) Toward a Theory of Movement Rules

Goldsmith (1976) Autosegmental Phonology

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

Reinhart (1976) The Syntactic Domain of Anaphora

Sag (1976) Deletion and Logical Form

Andrews (1975) Syntax of Relative and Comparative Clauses

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

Kean (1975) Theory of Markedness in Generative Grammar

Aronoff (1974) Word-Structure

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

Fiengo (1974) Semantic Conditions on Surface Structure

Kroch (1974) The Semantics of Scope in English

Milsark (1974) Existential Sentences in English

Siegel (1974) Topics in English Morphology

Williams (1974) Rule Ordering in Syntax

Maling (1973) The Theory of Classical Arabic Metrics

Jenkins (1972) Modality in English Syntax

Lasnik (1972) Analyses of Negation in English

Wasow (1972) Anaphoric Relations in English

Culicover (1971) Syntactic and Semantic Investigations

Bedell (1968) Kokugaku Grammatical Theory

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

Gruber (1965) Studies in Lexical Relations

Zwicky (1965) Topics in Sanskrit Phonology


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