Acknowledgements

The editors express our appreciation to the Schoff Fund at the University Seminars at Columbia University for their help in publication. The ideas presented here have benefitted from discussions in the University Seminar on Columbia School Linguistics, as well as at a conference that was co-sponsored by University Seminars and the Columbia School Linguistic Society. We would also like to thank Alice Newton and Pamela Guardia for their steady support. We are grateful to Nataly Shahaf and Billur Avlar, and the staff at Columbia’s Faculty House, for all their operational assistance, and to Stephany Betances, Roxana Risco, and Lauren Whitty who also contributed to the preparation of this volume.