Copulative Predication in Tarifit Berber

Gemination in Tarifit Berber: X-RAY AND ACOUSTIC DATA

This investigation reports on gemination in Tarifit, a variety of Berber language spoken in the North Eastern region of Morocco. It presents results of a simultaneous X-ray and acoustic investigation of singleton and geminate voiced and voiceless stops in three different word positions (initial, intervocalic, and final.) The acoustic parameters examined show that geminates are systematically pr...

Gemination in Tarifit Berber: Doing One or Two Things at Once?

Acoustic and X-ray data have been collected for gemination in Tarifit Berber. The acoustic data show that consonantal closure of geminates is significantly longer than that of corresponding singletons, for all consonants examined (alveolars, velars and uvulars), in both voiced and voiceless contexts, for two subjects, in two speech rate conditions: normal and fast. Articulatory measurements obt...

Predication 1 Predication

Predication

Plural Predication

My thesis consists of three self-contained but interconnected papers. In the first one, 'Word and Objects', I assume that it is possible to quantify over absolutely everything, and show that certain English sentences containing collective predicates resist paraphrase in first-order languages and even in first-order languages enriched with plural quantifiers. To capture such sentences I develop ...