Johnson 2004 - CDLI - UCLA

Thanks to Madeleine Fitzgerald, the post-doc at CDLI, for all manner of help, advice
and gossip over the years. I shared an office and almost every class with Jacob Dahl for
years and years: we complained (sometimes about each other) and laughed about just
about everything and sometimes even fought, but we always remained and still remain
the best of friends. Key components of the hypothesis that I present in this dissertation
were inspired by the content and/or readings in several classes taught by Dominique
Sportiche and Hilda Koopman, but they should not be held responsible for the theoretical
infelicities that are sure to be found herein. Over the years at UCLA, many people have
sent me offprints, unpublished manuscripts and other sources of data and interpretation
that I could not have acquired on my own: Alfonso Archi, J. Bauer, the late Jeremy
Black, Jerrold Cooper, Bram Jagersma, Fumi Karahashi, Piotr Michalowski, Gonzalo
Rubio, Gebhard Selz, Walter Sommerfeld, P. Steinkeller, H. Vanstiphout, Niek Veldhuis,
Aage Westenholz and Claus Wilcke.
I would like to thank the members of my committee, Bob Englund, my advisor,
Antonio Loprieno and Brent Vine, for reading drafts and answering questions on short
notice and under the constraint of unreasonable deadlines. Brent Vine in particular has
been wonderfully generous with his time, even going so far as to read through the draft
and send me several important corrections and references while on sabbatical in Kyoto.
Piotr Michalowski read through nearly the entire dissertation and sent me pages of pages
of comments and criticism that have only been able to incorporate in part. Fumi
Karahashi read through much of the dissertation while on vacation in Europe and
Gonzalo Rubio did likewise even as he was attempting to meet a deadline for his own
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