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Acknowledgements<br />
Science is not a one-man show. My work on this dissertation has benefited from the<br />
support of a number of institutions, colleagues and friends. With this listing of names, I<br />
would like to acknowledge the many ways in which my professional and private<br />
environment helped me to get this done. Institutional support was generously provided<br />
by the Department of Linguistics at the University of Cologne (Institut für Linguistik,<br />
<strong>Universität</strong> zu Köln), the Department of Linguistics at the University of <strong>Konstanz</strong><br />
(Fachbereich Sprachwissenschaft, <strong>Universität</strong> <strong>Konstanz</strong>) and the SFB 471 “Variation<br />
and Evolution in the Lexicon” at the University of <strong>Konstanz</strong>, funded by the German<br />
Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft). The Society for Endangered<br />
Languages, Cologne (Gesellschaft für bedrohte Sprachen e.V.) funded my field work<br />
with a research grant. Apart from my part-time employment at the SFB 471 in <strong>Konstanz</strong><br />
from March 2003 to December 2005, several temporary jobs at the following<br />
institutions and companies supplied the financial background for the present study:<br />
Adolf Grimme Institut, Büro Köln; Institut für Linguistik, Köln; Paritätisches<br />
Bildungswerk, Frankfurt; Firma Mühlenbruch, Gladbeck; Little Opry Band, Köln.<br />
I am grateful for intriguing discussions and all sorts of help I received from my<br />
friends and colleagues in Cologne, <strong>Konstanz</strong> and elsewhere in the world, in particular<br />
Markus Bader, Conny Bast, Josef Bayer, Michael Beckert, Christoph Benden, Pier<br />
Marco Bertinetto, Ellen Brandner, Norbert Braunschweiler, Walter Breu, Miriam Butt,<br />
Sibrand van Coillie, Michael Cysouw, Werner Drossard, Andreas Dufter, Boštjan<br />
Dvořák, Carsten Eulitz, Dan Everett, Mats Exter, Sascha Gaglia, Wilhelm Geuder,<br />
Christine Gohl, Janet Grijzenhout, Kleanthes Grohmann, Katharina Haude, Jana<br />
Häussler, Bernd Heine, Nikolaus Himmelmann, Marc-Olivier Hinzelin, Melanie<br />
Hochstätter, Julia Hölterhoff, Simon Hopp, Dagmar Jung, Barış Kabak, Georg Kaiser,<br />
Ingrid Kaufmann, Carmen Kelling, Achim Kleinmann, Daniel Kölligan, Agnes<br />
Kollmer, Astrid Krähenmann, Sylvia Kutscher, Katrin Lehmann, Claudia Leto, Uli<br />
Lutz, Dejan Matić, Johanna Mattissen, Tatsiana Mayorava, Andrew McIntyre,<br />
Fionnuala McKeever, Judith Meinschäfer, Marijana Mihelčić, Andreas Mühldorfer,<br />
Gabrielle Müller, Olga Müller, Irina Nikolaeva, Pamela Perniss, Roland Pooth, Felix<br />
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