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I wish to thank the Spencer Foundation and the University of Chicago forfinancial support that enabled me to spend a year at the Center for Advanced Studiesin the Behavioral Sciences. Much of my knowledge of West Greenlandic comes fromresearch supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the PhilippsFund of the American Philosophical Society, and the Division of the Humanities,University of Chicago to all of whom I am also very grateful. Numerous individuals,including no fewer than four reviewers of an earlier draft of this paper have hadan influence on it. I would like to mention specifically the following for their help,advice, and encouragement, without suggesting that any of them is responsible forthe failings of the text or theory: Avery Andrews, Thomas Bever, Greville Corbett,David Dowty, Michael Fortescue, Donald Frantz, Gerald Gazdar, John Goldsmith,Jorge Hankamer, Carolyn Jenkins, Steven Lapointe, Almerindo Ojeda, David Perlmutter,Geoffrey Pullum, John Richardson, Ivan Sag, Yoko Sugioka, and Anthony Woodbury.

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Sadock, J.M. Autolexical syntax: A proposal for the treatment of noun incorporation and similar phenomena. Nat Lang Linguist Theory 3, 379–439 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00133284

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