Acknowledgments

Funding for the research presented in the following chapters was initially provided by the Language in Interaction Research Consortium, Radboud University Nijmegen, and the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, in The Netherlands. The final steps before publication would not have been possible without the financial and academic support from the Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language, and the School for Languages and Cultures at the University of Queensland, in Australia. I also thank the hard work of interns and research assistants throughout these years. Our collaboration led to the publication of articles and the creation of the Shawi Corpus at the Language Archive. These include Corentin Bourdeau, Simon Claassen, Abram Peute, Austin Howard, Aizel Redulla, and Imogen Hoole.

As an improved version of the first half of my doctoral dissertation, this book was revised taking into account many comments and suggestions of my doctoral advisors, Pieter Muysken and Steve Levinson, as well as my co-supervisors Roberto Zariquiey and Mark Dingemanse. Several comments and suggestions from Pieter Seuren pervade the theoretical discussions of this book. The comments of Friederike Lüpke, Frank Seifart, Willem Adelaar, Helen de Hoop, Ans van Kemenade, and Felicity Meakins have inspired many improvements throughout the chapters. I also thank my co-authors in the published studies reproduced in this book or the ideas of which have been revisited in some chapters. I am especially indebted with Corentin Bourdeau, Sâm Ghavami, Wang Lei, Andrés Napurí, and Sean Roberts for their academic and moral support. Finally, I must thank the exchanges with George Saad, and my Semantic Syntax students: Bodean Sloan, Liam McCullough, Elijah Kingdon, Lowana Tudor-Smith, Liam Brandish, and Flynn MacKenzie.

Yusparinkema, kumparu’sa’, Shawi piyapiru’sa’

Yuspainek’etchen, Shiwilu ñinanlu’