ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This book is a modest revision of my 1978 Cornell University dissertation, “The Structure of Intonational Meaning.” As such it owes a debt to the criticism and encouragement I received from my teachers at Cornell: James S. Noblitt (my chairman), Linda Waugh, John Bowers, Wayles Browne, Joseph E. Grimes, Charles F. Hockett, Gerald B. Kelley, and Sally McConnell-Ginet. It is a pleasure to be able to offer them this book as tangible thanks for their years of support.

Also among my teachers has been Dwight Bolinger, who has corresponded with me from the very beginning of my research; his influence will be apparent throughout the book. Others who through discussion and correspondence have helped me to develop my ideas include Anne Cutler, Duncan Gardiner, Mark Liberman, Louis Mangione, Ivan Sag, and Ralph Vanderslice. Naturally, none of the foregoing agrees with all or even most of what I say here.

Financial support for my years as a graduate student and the period when I was writing this book was provided by a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, Veterans Educational Benefits under the G.I. Bill, various teaching positions in the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics at Cornell, and most recently by a Fulbright Lectureship in Cluj, Romania.

For much editorial help and patience I am grateful to both Ruta Noreika and the staff at Indiana University Press; thanks also to Bruce Downing, who read the manuscript for the Press and made many useful suggestions. And not least, I thank the many friends in Ithaca and elsewhere who have taken an interest in my work and well-being these last several years.