This dissertation explores the linguistic expression of attitude reports and comparison in
Navajo (Diné Bizaad, Athabaskan). The investigation has three goals. First, to present …

This paper explores the semantics of bare singulars in Turkish, which are unmarked for
number in form, as in English, but can behave like both singular and plural terms, unlike in …

Analyses of the ellipsis identity condition must account for the fact that some syntactic
mismatches between an ellipsis site E and its antecedent A are possible while others are …

We discuss the semantics of prenominal “zero”, as in “I have zero new emails in my inbox”.
We show that “zero” is not a quantifier like “no” and that giving “zero” a regular numeral …

The paper investigates two related questions that concern the realization of plural
morphology on nouns across languages. The first question is whether markedness in the …

I argue that an account of both inclusive plurals and the crosslinguistic typology of
grammatical number requires postulating a [− atomic] feature (or something very much like …

I develop an account of the semantics and nominal number marking of the numeral+ noun
construction in Turkish, Western Armenian and English that combines insights from …

In obligatory classifier languages like Japanese, numerals cannot directly modify nouns
without the help of a classifier. It is standardly considered that this is because nouns in …

How does linguistic structure affect children's acquisition of early number word meanings?
Previous studies have tested this question by comparing how children learning languages …

Computational locality of cyclic phonology in Armenian A Dissertation presented by Hossep
Dolatian to The Graduate School in Par Page 1 Computational locality of cyclic phonology in …