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Acknowledgements<br />

Careful citations are the st<strong>and</strong>ard academic way toshow the intellectual background of a<br />

work such as this, but they can never tell the whole story. The ideas in this dissertation<br />

have been developed with the bene t of many careful readings <strong>and</strong> thoughtful comments<br />

from all the members of my committee, <strong>and</strong> of extensive discussions with George Lako ,<br />

Jane Edwards, Christopher R. Johnson, Susanne Gahl, Kevin Moore, <strong>and</strong> other faculty,<br />

postdocs, <strong>and</strong> graduate students at UC Berkeley. I began by trying to acknowledge each<br />

contribution by citing it as a personal communication, but soon found that there were too<br />

many tocount. I greatly appreciate all the suggestions that I have received <strong>and</strong> hope that<br />

those who see their ideas used here will not be disappointed by the lack of speci c reference.<br />

I feel fortunate to have participated in the life of the Linguistics Department at<br />

UC Berkeley, <strong>and</strong> to have received the intellectual stimulation of faculty such asPaul Kay,<br />

John Ohala, Jim Matiso , Larry Hyman, Leanne Hinton, Ian Maddieson, <strong>and</strong> Robin Lako<br />

<strong>and</strong> the encouragement of fellow linguistics students such as Sarah Taub, Joe Grady, Sara<br />

Gesuato, Matt Juge, Kyoko Hirose Ohara, Orhan Orgun, Laurel Sutton, Marvin Kramer,<br />

Jason Patent, Mary Bucholtz, Kathleen Hubbard, Anita Liang, <strong>and</strong> many others, including<br />

a distinguished series of colloquium speakers <strong>and</strong> visiting scholars. It has also been my<br />

good fortune during much ofmystayatBerkeley to be associated with the International<br />

Computer Science Institute (ICSI) <strong>and</strong> to have hadthechance to discuss natural language<br />

<strong>and</strong> cognitive science with researchers there such as Jerry Feldman, Dan Jurafsky, Terry<br />

Regier, David Bailey, <strong>and</strong> Srini Narayanan.<br />

I am grateful to the taxpayers of California for the Regents' Scholarship I received<br />

during my rstyears at Berkeley <strong>and</strong> to U.S. taxpayers for the NSF funding of the work<br />

of the <strong>Frame</strong>Net Project at ICSI (IRI 9618838, Charles Fillmore, PI), which has made it<br />

possible for me to be paid for work related to my dissertation research.<br />

Looking back athowIreached this point, I feel grateful to my parents for their<br />

concern for my education (to the point of helping to found a new school) <strong>and</strong> to a long<br />

succession of brilliant, dedicated teachers, too numerous to name. Above all,Iwant to<br />

thank my wife <strong>and</strong> my son (now three years old) for their support <strong>and</strong> patience throughout<br />

this long project.<br />

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