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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 Fintel and Heim ...
Zeman, Dan Cristian (Date of defense: 2011-04-26)
The main aim of the thesis is to give a semantic account of implicit content – the kind of content that plays a crucial role in implicit communication. Implicit communication is a species of communication in which a speaker ...
Merlo, Giovanni (Date of defense: 2015-06-01)
The first part of this thesis articulates and defends the Subjectivist View of the Mental. According to this view, my mental states are essentially different from the mental states of everyone else, but the fact that they ...
González, Luciano J. (Date of defense: 2015-09-17)
This PhD thesis is the result of our research on duality theory and completions for partially ordered sets. A first main aim of this dissertation is to propose different kind of topological dualities for some classes of ...