Acknowledgements

First and foremost, we would like to express our deepest gratitude to Julia Blanco, the invaluable assistant who from the very beginning has been involved in the process of organizing the workshop and the resulting publication. Without her efficiency our work, as editors, would be much harder. We also thank the following colleagues who served as external reviewers for contributions in this volume: ­Irina Dubinina, Wilhelm Grießhaber, Sonja Haug, Alexei Kochetov, Marion Krause, Anna Mikhaylova, Michal Tannenbaum, and Peter Rosenberg. We are grateful to editors at John Benjamins Publishing, Kees Vaes and Ana Deumert, for their enthusiastic support of this publication. Our thanks go to Rafaela Erl for her invaluable help with organizing the workshop and assisting with this publication and to Julia Pötzl for her assistance with final formatting of the manuscript. Finally, this work would not be possible without the generous financial support provided by Ludwig-Maximilians-­Universität München (LMU), which allowed us to fund the workshop, and the Center for Advanced Studies at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), which hosted the first editor, Ludmila Isurin, as a Visiting Fellow in summer 2014.