The English Noun Phrase in its Sentential Aspect - Vinartus

4AcknowledgementsIwould like toacknowledge, rst of all, my debttomymany teachers andmentors these last four years: to my thesis advisor, Rich Larson, for hisguidance in matters syntactic and semantic, as well as for sound advice inthe mechanics of thesis-writing. To the other members of my committee:Noam Chomsky, Ken Hale, and Richie Kayne. To Jim Higginbotham, withwhom I have worked closely since coming to MIT unfortunately for me, heis in Pisa this semester. Thanks also to Jay Keyser, both for guidance inlinguistics and encouragement inmy computational interests and to MorrisHalle, for encouragement and direction, and for keeping me aware of thebeauties of phonology.Though none of my work in parsing has found its way into this thesis,nonetheless a very important partofmyintellectual development asa graduate student has been in the area of computation. I am especiallyindebted to Sam Epstein, my mentor at Bell Communications Research,for providing me with a golden opportunity todevelop my ideas in parsing,and for his indispensable guidance and encouragement. At MIT, thanks toBob Berwick, for much help and direction to Carl Hewitt, for the opportunitytowork with the Apiary Project to Gul Agha, for endless supportand advice to Jennifer Cole, who I had the good fortune to collaboratewith in the summer and fall of 1985, in work on parsing to Tom Reinhart,my Lispm guru and to Beth Levin, for her guidance during the summer Iworked for the Lexicon Project.Iwould like to thank the others with whom I worked at Bellcore: (alphabetically)George Collier, Stu Feldman, Mike Lesk, Maria Slowiaczek, DonWalker. I would also like to thank Don Hindle, Mitch Marcus, and RichardSproat, of AT&T Bell Laboratories and Bob Ingria of Bolt, Beranek, &Newman.In psycholinguistics, special thanks to Merrill Garrett and Janet Fodor.My studies at MIT were partially funded by a Mellon Graduate Fellowshipin the Humanities I gratefully acknowledge their support.Among fellow students, present and past, the eight withwhomIhavebeen together since 1983 will always be very special to me. I consider myselfvery lucky to have worked together with these people I only wish it weren'tover so soon. They are: Hyon-Sook Choe, Jennifer Cole, John Lumsden,Doug Saddy, Ur Shlonsky, Michele Sigler, Carol Tenny, Loren Trigo. Stillamember of the group in spirit|though he left us for warm and sunnyPalo Alto |is Steve Neale. There are also two unocial members of ourclass who have beenvery important to me: Betsy Ritter and Kyoko Masunaga.Among my other colleagues, I would especially like tomention DianaArchangeli (and husband Dante), Mark Baker, Andy Barss, Ed Barton,