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who should be thanked is impossible, but among these are: Aggrey, Ana, Andrew,
Changguk, Dan, Devon, Diego, Edith, Ellert, Eunchong, Irene, Johanna, Marisol,
Rebecca, Rina, Rob, Sang Doh, Whitney, Yuping and all the rest of you who make
the group what it is.
I have benefitted from the expertise of many scholars outside of Cornell, whose
feedback at conferences and during my fieldwork has also helped shape my dissertation
and my view of linguistics. I wish particularly to thank Martina Faller,
colleague in Quechua semantics, fellow fieldworker, and intrepid Andean hiker, for
friendship, support and encouragement. Thanks also to other Quechua linguists
whose past work has been so important to my own, and perhaps most importantly
to the dozens of Quechua speakers who have shared their language and their lives
with me during my trips to Peru and Ecuador. Certainly none of this would have
seemed worthwhile without the personal relationships that have been forged through
this work. I cannot say enough about the contributions of my teachers and language
consultants in Peru and Ecuador, whose insights into their language and ability to
communicate to me so many important nuances of meaning have been the cornerstone
of the work represented in this dissertation. Special thanks for contributing
a tremendous number of hours to this research are owed to the following individuals:
Inés Callalli Villafuerte, José Lema Maldonado, Elena Muenala Pineda, Natalia
Pumayalli Pumayalli, and Edith Zevallos Apaza. Thanks also to Hirmenegilda Contreras,
Veronica Fuentes, Marguerita Pumayalli, and Cirilu Pumayalli. Additional
thanks to my Quechua teacher at Cornell, Luis Morató-Peña, for years of patient
instruction and for sharing his own insight and experience as a Quechua scholar.
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