ABSTRACT
The rst time I met Dan was in Berkeley, in 2000, during my rst year as a post-doc in the Linguistics Department. After a whole semester attending courses on theoretical linguistics, I was ready for something more ‘practical.’ Eve Sweetser told me about a professor in the Psychology Department, who worked on motion-an area I wanted to explore at the time. His name rang a bell but I didn’t have the slightest clue about who or how this person was, so I imagined that I was going to meet a typical professor: very nice but too busy to hear yet another person mumbling about her research. What I found was just the opposite. Dan was very friendly and really enthusiastic about the possibility of adding Basque to the Frog Story database. When I came back to Berkeley after the summer, we started to work together, and those meetings marked the beginning of a whole new world in my research career. It is difcult to summarize in just one paragraph what Dan means for me and my research. His inuence in my work is evident, but perhaps the lesson that he has taught me best, or in other words, the reason for which I admire Dan, is his combination of talent, knowledge, accessibility, and readiness to learn new things. Thanks Dan, for everything!!!
