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Modality in typological perspective
Nauze, F.D.
Publication date 2008
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Nauze, F. D. (2008). Modality in typological perspective. Institute for Logic, Language and Computation.
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Acknowledgments
One piece of advice I can give to any new PhD student is to start right away with the writing of their acknowledgements. As you might expect, it is too late for me to follow this advice; for all those I forget to mention, my sincere apologies. However as the process of writing this dissertation finally comes to an end, a certain number of names come to mind as having been of importance in this long journey.
First and foremost, I would like to thank my promotors Frank Veltman and Kees Hengeveld. Frank Veltman gave me the opportunity to be a PhD student under his guidance: for that I cannot thank him enough. I have truly enjoyed and benefited from each of our numerous discussions and his patience and sense of humor have always been a great support. Through our contact I’ve learned that one of the greatest joys of academics is to have the freedom to build your own
luchtkastelen. The first two chapters would never have been possible without
the help of Kees Hengeveld. With him I discovered the gentle art of reading descriptive grammars and the pleasures of discussing exotic languages.
Quite a lot of people helped me with the second chapter of this disserta-tion. Some are teachers, others scholars; some are native speakers, others second-language speakers; some corresponded with me by email, others spent hours re-sponding to my questions in person; I am very much indebted to all of them: Enoch Aboh (Fon), Young-Mee Choi and Sana Song of the Korean School Ams-terdam and Robert Cloutier (Korean), Jan van Eijk and Henry Davis (Lillooet), Margreet Dorleijn (Turkish) and Niko Besnier (Tuvaluan).
Writing a dissertation and studying semantics is really gratifying but can sometimes be a lonely business. I have been lucky to be surrounded by many great colleagues always ready for discussion (the second floor of the Philosophy Department is hereby thanked). For the present work, I have greatly benefited from the insights of Rosja Mastop, Katrin Schulz, Paul Dekker, Robert van Rooij and Kai von Fintel.
I would like to thank everyone at the ILLC and at the Philosophy Department.
A particular mention should go to Ingrid van Loon and Dick de Jong for giving me the chance to follow the Master of Logic program at the ILLC, to Michiel van Lambalgen who, to my great pleasure, supervised my Masters thesis and to Tikitu de Jager who took it on himself to proofread this dissertation under great time pressure (of course, he cannot be held responsible for any remaining mistakes).
Finally, my sincere gratitude and best wishes go to all the people without whom this dissertation would have been finished a long time ago.
Amsterdam Fabrice Nauze July, 2008.
