Acknowledgments

My foremost thanks goes to Audrey Li, Andrew Simpson, Roumyana Pancheva, and Stefan Keine, for discussions at different occasions over the years. ‘This monograph would not have been possible without the people who share with me their judgment on Cantonese sentences. I thank Ka-Wing Chan, Kenith Chan, Sheila Chan, Mei-Ying Ki, Yik-Po Lai, Esther Lam, Chaak-Ming Lau, Margaret Lee, Tommy Li, Summer Mut, Carmen Tang, Oscar Wong, and Ka-Fai Yip, for the time and patience.

Earlier versions and portions of this monograph are presented at different venues, which led to substantial improvements, including Yue 22, FoCaL 1, LSA 93, GLOW in Asia XIII and SICOGG XXI, WCCFL 38, NACCL 32, and NELS 51, as well as at reading groups/seminars at Stanford University, University of California, Los Angeles, University Connecticut, and Yale University. I thank the audience at the above occasions. I must also thank the people who selflessly shared their ideas with me.

I would like to acknowledge, to the best of my memory, Željko Boškovic, Kenyon Branan, Lawrence Cheung, Colin Davis, Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine, Robert Frank, Vera Gribanova, Boris Harizanov, Hajime Hoji, Khalil Iskarous, Paul Law, Winfried Lechner, Peppina Po-lun Lee, Travis Major, Victor Junnan Pan, Luis Miguel Toquero Pérez, David Pesetsky, Ethan Poole, Ian Roberts, Deniz Rudin, Barry Schein, Sze-Wing Tang, Haley Wei Wei, Alexis Wellwood, Ka-Fai Yip, and Raffaella Zanuttini. This list is probably incomplete. I apologize to the people who I have talked to but are not on the above list.

I also want to thank the members of the Cantonese/Chinese online reading groups during the pandemic, which kept me company throughout the difficult times (although we are in different parts of the world): Zhuo Chen, Jiahui Huang, Ka-Wing Chan, Sheila Chan, Esther Lam, Margaret Lee, Minqi Liu, Jia Ren, Carmen Tang, Huilei Wang, Bo Xue, and Ka-Fai Yip.

For my family and my wife Ellie, it is all beyond words.