ÐThe problem of computing with faulty shared bits is addressed. The focus is on constructing a reliable test&set bit from a collection of test&set bits of which some may be faulty. Faults are modeled by allowing operations on the faulty bits to return a special distinguished value, signaling that the operation may not have taken place. Such faults are called omission faults. Some of the constru...

Analyses that treat determiner omission in terms of weak referentiality have recently been adopted for determinerless PPs. A missing discourse referent is involved in both cases (Farkas and de Swart 2003, Espinal and McNally 2011, de Swart 2012). With regard to the German prepositions mit and ohne, we will show that the former accepts the determiner omission reluctantly, while determiner omissi...

The goal of this dissertation is to account for the fact that young children acquiring English (around age 2 years) often produce utterances like (1), in which they omit a form of the copula, be. Children's production of forms like (1) is interesting for two main reasons: firstly, utterances like these do not occur in the input (adult English); secondly, children's omission of the copula adhere...