Leivada, Evangelia (Date of defense: 2015-07-06)
The aim of this dissertation is to explore the nature and limits of variation across different (i) linguistic phenotypes and (ii) cognitive phenotypes, showing that a strong parallel exists between the ...
Alamri, Saleh (Date of defense: 2017-09-18)
Humans display distinct unlimited capacity to produce expressions in language and use them flexibly in language processing. This characteristic of human language allows speakers to use novel, flexible, ...
de Valdivia Pujol, Glòria (Date of defense: 2014-07-24)
This thesis presents a descriptive empirical study of deverbal nominalizations. Very often what can be expressed by means of a deverbal noun can also be expressed by means of a verbal construction and ...
Llauradó Singla, Anna (Date of defense: 2012-10-18)
In the life long process of language development, the school years play a major role. The linguistic knowledge of schoolers can hardly be characterized without taking into account their performance in ...
Vila Rigat, Marta (Date of defense: 2013-06-28)
Paraphrasing is generally understood as approximate sameness of meaning between snippets of text with a different wording. Paraphrases are omnipresent in natural languages demonstrating all the aspects ...
Acedo-Matellán, Víctor (Date of defense: 2010-12-01)
In this dissertation I put forth a syntactic theory of argument structure and the syntaxmorphology interface and I apply it mainly to Early and Classical Latin, although comparison with other languages ...
Albert Gandía, Milagros (Date of defense: 2016-11-29)
This is a thesis about word definition. Early developmental studies of word definition, tested nous rather than other morphological categories (adjectives, verbs). As some authors have pointed out ...
Castillo, Gonzalo (Date of defense: 2017-12-15)
This dissertation proposes that the frontotemporal network involved in the neural substrate of language processing is as a subset of a domain-general system mediated by predictive processing mechanisms. ...