I would like to thank audience members at both the 2004 meeting of the LSA and the Fourth Mediterranean Morphology Meeting for their questions and comments. I am also grateful to Sisilia Lutui for help with Tongan and to Martina Faller for help with Quechua. I have received extremely useful feedback on this paper from three anonymous Yearbook of Morphology reviewers as well as John Beavers, Paul Kiparsky, and Beth Levin. I also acknowledge the following people for comments and data related to this work: Elena Benedicto, Lev Blumenfeld, Melissa Bowerman, Joan Bresnan, Luis Casillas Martínez, Eve Clark, Mike Dukes, Hana Filip, Ivan García-Álvarez, Martin Haspelmath, Shelly Lieber, Jimmy Lin, D. Gary Miller, Yuko Otsuka, Sergei Tatevosov, and Judith Tonhauser. This paper builds on initial joint work with Beth Levin (Koontz-Garboden and Levin 2004) and was supported in part by Graduate Research Funds from the Department of Linguistics at Stanford as well as by an NSF Small Grant for Exploratory Research (NSF Grant BCS-0004437) to Beth Levin.
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Koontz-Garboden, A. (2005). On the typology of state/change of state alternations. In: Booij, G., Van Marle, J. (eds) Yearbook of Morphology 2005. Yearbook of Morphology. Springer, Dordrecht . https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4066-0_4
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