Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the authors, as well as all the participants, abstract reviewers, donors and volunteers who contributed to making the Linguistics Symposium of Romance Languages 48th edition (LSRL 48), held in April 2018 at York University in Canada, a success. Special thanks go to our colleagues around the world who volunteered their time and energy to review (and thus substantially improve) the papers selected for publication in this volume. In alphabetical order, these include: Victor Acedo-Matellan, Peter Avery, Larisa Avram, Laura Bafile, Michael J. Barrie, Isabelle Barriere, Judy Bernstein, Bronwyn Bjorkman, Hélène Blondeau, Laura Colantoni, Cristina M. Cuervo, Ricardo Etxepare, Olga Fernández-Soriano, Jon A. Franco Elorza, Ludovico Franco, Elly van Gelderen, Alessandra Giorgi, Virginia Hill, Daniela Isac, Haike Jacobs, Marie Labelle, Maria Lobo, Ruth Lopes, Eric Mathieu, Marcello Modesto dos Santos, Telmo Moia, Alexandru Nicolae, Jairo Nunes, Francisco Ordóñez, Ivan Ortega-Sanots, Anna Pineda, Mihaela Pirvulescu, Lori Repetto, Yves Roberge, Marcos J. Rohena-Madrazo, Johan Rooryck, Andres Saab, Liliana Sanchez, Cristina Schmitt, Michelle Sheehan, Miquel Simonet, Petra Sleeman, Jane Smith, Danielle Thomas, Michelle Troberg, Evani Viotti, and James Walker.

We also gratefully acknowledge support from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC # 611-2017-0348).

Last but not least, we would like to thank John Benjamins Publishing Company, and the CILT series in particular, for their continued support, guidance and patience, as well as for giving the LSRL one last chance to have some of its papers see the light of day.