Moldovan, Andrei (Date of defense: 2015-04-24)
This thesis focuses on the semantics of definite descriptions (DDs). In chapter 1 I introduce a framework for doing compositional semantics for natural language that follows Heim and Kratzer (1998) and ...
Rey Sampedro, David Alejandro (Date of defense: 2016-12-20)
The present dissertation explores the hypothesis that English is a language with time-shifting grammatical devices. According to this hypothesis, the linguistic objects of English grammar which serve ...
Briciu, Adrian (Date of defense: 2015-07-17)
The general aim of this dissertation is to analyze two intersecting topics. One is what constraints the principle(s) of compositionality place on semantic theories, and the second is whether context-sensitivity ...