On the Grammar and Semantics of Sentence Accents

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The present volume could not have been produced without a two-year grant from the Research Pool of the University of Nijmegen and without the excellent services of Hans Verhuist, who took over my teaching duties during the period covered by the grant.I thank the staff of the Department of Linguistics of the University of Edinburgh, above all Gill Brown, for providing me with every thing a research student can want during the first year of the project: an of fice, laboratory facilities, access to courses, guidance, and such light teaching duties as make even someone whose research does not progress feel tolerably useful. 1 thank Bob Ladd lor the stimulating coffee-room conversations during the 1Э 1 PILEI Linguistic Institute at Cornell, and for the encouragement and help he has given me ever since.I thank all my colleagues at the Instituut En gels-Amerikaans for their support and help in various ways, and for treading soltly on my teaching duties when the grant had run out, as well as those in the University of Xnmegen who kindly offered their expert help when I called on them I thank Theo van den Heuvel and Frans van der Heijden for their pa tience with my problems to get the text-editing program to do what I wanted it to do, and the student assistants Ineke Brus, Margo van Eyck, Cis van Heertum and Annemoon van Hest for their help at various stages of the work.