Wohlmuth, Kata (Date of defense: 2019-06-19)
Mereological models are often used to account for distributive reference, which arises when the denotation of a linguistic expression holds of certain parts of the plurality to which it is applied. It ...
Puig Waldmüller, Estela Sophie (Date of defense: 2008-06-18)
En el trabajo la semántica y pragmática de formas contraídas y no-contraídas en Alemán serán discutidas. Formas contraídas son preposiciones con sufijos flexionales, obligatorias en contextos en las que ...
Torner Castells, Sergi (Date of defense: 2005-05-02)
En esta tesis se ahonda en el conocimiento que en la actualidad se posee sobre el significado de los adverbios en -mente del español. Se propone un análisis que explica los usos que puede tener un ...
Richtarcikova, Veronika (Date of defense: 2018-02-15)
Reference via adjectives typically requires an intermediate step: nominalization through overt derivational affxing. However, many languages allow even unaffixed adjectives to be used referentially. ...
Ignjatović, Mihajlo (Date of defense: 2016-01-29)
This dissertation contains three studies, which explore various questions about verbal aspect and how it is affected by the process of nominalization. The first study examines the type of regular eventive ...
Bassaganyas-Bars, Toni (Date of defense: 2018-02-16)
Aquesta tesi investiga la interpretació de les frases amb el verb have en anglès. Aquest verb ha generat una gran quantitat de literatura en tots els àmbits de la lingüística, sense que s'hagi arribat ...
García Odón, Amaia (Date of defense: 2012-09-28)
In this dissertation, I deal with the problem of presupposition projection. I mostly focus on compound sentences composed of two clauses and conditional sentences in which the second clause carries a ...
Shimoyoshi, Ayumi (Date of defense: 2016-04-18)
Psych verbs display variations in the argument realization and this has been problematic for the theories that assume a uniform relationship between semantic properties and syntactic configurations. ...