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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSThis dissertation would never have been completed without the assistance and support of thefollowing wonderful people. Many thanks to my co-chairs Sandy Chung and Jorge Hankamerfor years of excellent advice, commentary, insight, gentle nudging in the right direction, panicstemming,intellectual discussion and overall amazing advisorship. Thanks are also due to mythird committee member Jim McCloskey for the same, and for reminding me how to teach in mylast quarter here at Santa Cruz. Various other faculty members at UC Santa Cruz have playedkey roles in the development of this work and/or in my professional development, and I highlyappreciate their support: Judith Aissen, Pranav Anand, Donka Farkas, Junko Ito, Bill Ladusaw,Armin Mester, Jaye Padgett, Geoff Pullum, and Dan Selden. Tanya Honig also was a key sourceof administrative support throughout my time at UCSC. I would not have become amorphosyntactician without the multi-year Morphology Reading Group, and for that I thankVera Gribanova for initiating it, Jorge Hankamer for providing faculty support, and the manymembers over the years for fun and stimulating discussion.Many thanks to those who have generously discussed some of the present research withme, including the above-named as well as Paolo Acquaviva, Hagit Borer, Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero, Héctor Campos, Marcel den Dikken, Ascander Dost, Anastasia Giannakidou, VeraGribanova, Boris Harizanov, Heidi Harley, Arsalan Khanemuyipour, Andrew Nevins, MarkNorris, Asya Pereltsvaig, Kyle Rawlins and Anie Thompson. Special thanks go to Matt Tuckerfor his priceless commentary on the entirety of the thesis and his unwavering support.xii