Acknowledgements

This collection of papers grew out of a two-day workshop on category change from a constructional perspective, organised by Muriel Norde and Kristel Van Goethem at the 8th International Conference on Construction Grammar at the University of Osnabrück, on September 4–5, 2014. We would like to thank the contributors to this workshop as well as the people in the audience for stimulating discussion. Since the workshop was such a success, we decided to publish a selection of the papers, and we would like to express our sincere gratitude to a number of colleagues and friends who have assisted us along the way. First of all, we are greatly indebted to two anonymous reviewers of the volume as a whole, as well as to the reviewers of the individual papers for very helpful comments and suggestions for improvement: Dany Amiot, Lot Brems, Bert Cornillie, Bernard De Clerck, Timothy Colleman, Renata Enghels, Teresa Fanego, Livio Gaeta, Jack Hoeksema, Lotte Hoogeweg, Matthias Hüning, Claudio Iacobini, Eva Skafte Jensen, Bob de Jonge, Kristin Killie, Barbara Schlücker, Tim Thornes, Elizabeth Traugott, Turo Vartiainen, Freek Van de Velde, An Van linden, and Dominique Willems. Thanks are also due to Iliyana Braykova, Seda Gerehan and Sarah Sippach at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin for their meticulous work on the references. Finally, we are grateful to Jan-Ola Östman of the CAL series for his invaluable feedback and encouragement, and to Esther Roth and Susan Hendriks for guiding us through the editorial process.