Acknowledgements

We wish to thank the following colleagues, especially Ronald Beline Mendes and Lenka Zajícová, who participated in the initial stages of this project. Crucial also to the quality of this volume were Laura Álvarez López, Jon Amastae, Carla Amorós Negre, Pamela Anderson-Mejías, Uju Anya, John Attinasi, Milton Azevedo, Rusty Barrett, Laura Callahan, Kathryn Campbell-Kibler, Phillip Carter, Ana Maria Carvalho, Jinny Choi, Hilaria Cruz, Elise Dubord, Cindy Ducar, Adolfo Elizaincín, Anna María Escobar, Ana Isabel García, María García, Melvin González-Rivera, Shaw Gynan, Chad Howe, Margarita Jara, Kendall King, Carol Klee, Manel Lacorte, Erez Levon, Andrew Lynch, Glenn Martínez, Catherine Mazak, Jim Michnowicz, Irene Moyna, Mercedes Niño-Murcia, Luis Ortiz López, Livia Oushiro, Cíntia Pacheco, Diego Pascual y Cabo, Uli Reich, Ana Roca, Celeste Rodríguez-Louro, Darío Rojas, Hélade Scutti Santos, Lotfi Sayahi, Marta Scherre, Armin Schwegler, Sandro Sessarego, Gláucia Silva, Antonio Simões, Miroslav Valeš, Mark Waltermire, Joseph Weyers, Klaus Zimmermann.

Many thanks to the editors of John Benjamins series Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, especially to Kimberly Geeslin, whose work with us was critical for the success of this project.