Aspect in Ancient Greek - Nijmegen Centre for Semantics

AcknowledgementsWriting a dissertation can be quite lonely. Fortunately, it hasn’t been for mebecause of the generous support of many people. I would like to single out afew of them.First of all, I would like to express my enormous gratitude to my promotorRob van der Sandt, whose support has always been way beyond the call of duty.He did the impossible by being there for me even when no one could expectthat of him. There is no ‘thank you’ big enough to show my appreciation.I am happy to have (had) as my closest colleagues the members of thelogic and philosophy of language group: Bart Geurts, Janneke Huitink, TonnyHurkens, Noor van Leusen, Emar Maier, and Rob van der Sandt. Togetherwith the people in Helen de Hoop’s group and fellow PhD students of the Facultyof Philosophy, they made my work environment a sociable place. In addition,I would like to thank Bart for his painstaking correction of the manuscriptand Tonny for answering my questions about mathematics and logic. Emar(apart from being a close friend) has been a true mentor to me during myresearch project. Sharing an office with him was not only a lot of fun, butalso extremely useful. He is the kind of person that immediately puts asidehis own work whenever you ask him a question. Even after his departurehe was always available to answer my questions concerning semantics, logic,mathematics, and L A TEX, for which I am very grateful.Markus Egg also deserves a big ‘thank you’. I met him about a yearand a half ago and the close collaboration that followed (about 600 (!) emailsbetween July and December 2007) was extremely valuable for the developmentof my ideas. There is little in this work that I haven’t discussed with him. Ialso would like to thank Reinhard Muskens, whose very accurate answers tomy questions helped me to fix the final things in my thesis, and Henriëtte deSwart, who has been very supportive along the way.During my PhD years I was able to make a number of longer trips thanksto several grants. This gave me the opportunity to meet many people whohelped me develop my ideas. My trip to Edinburgh in 2005 was sponseredby the VSBfonds. There I was fortunate to meet Mark Steedman, Alex Lascarides,and Johan Bos. In 2007 was able to travel to Austin thanks to a grantfrom Fulbright. In Texas I discussed my ideas with Alexander Mourelatos,