The Categorial Status of Body Part Prepositions in Valley Zapotec ...

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I sincerely thank all the Zapotec speakers who have shared their language and
their time with me, especially Roberto Antonio, Florentino Jimenez, Felipe Lopez, Silvia
Lopez, Roberto Garcia, Fantino Aquino, and Cecilia Lopez. Silvia Lopez's assistance
was integral in planning and implementing the child language project. I sincerely thank
her and the Lopez family for their hospitality and for welcoming me into their home.
I want to thank my fellow students for listening to and commenting on the
development of this thesis, especially the members of the Zapotistas and the American
Indian Seminar. Finally, I owe sincere thanks to the members of my committee Nina
Hyams, and Carson Schütze, and special thanks to my committee chair, Pamela Munro,
for all of her support and encouragement on this project. All errors are, or course, my
own.
This research was partially funded by the UCLA Department of Linguistics, a
Travel Grant from the UCLA Latin American Studies Center (Summer 2001) and a
Summer Research Grant from the Linguistics Department at UCLA (Summer 2001).
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