Acknowledgements

This book evolved in the framework of the international Cross-linguistic Project on Pre- and Protomorphology, founded and guided by W.U. Dressler. We are very grateful to the members of this group for their fruitful discussions and intensive collaboration on the topic of acquisition of derivation. They accompanied the process of editing this volume and helped us to understand the issues more clearly by their valuable feedback on the various stages which were regularly presented to the group.

We would like to thank the contributors to this volume for their thorough work, for cooperating closely and reliably, for their suggestions and comments during all phases of the development of this volume. Furthermore, we are grateful for their critical reading and commenting of the Introduction and Conclusions chapters.

We would also like to express our gratitude to the reviewers of the chapters who agreed to share their time and their expertise with us, for their useful suggestions.

We appreciate the pleasant, productive and helpful cooperation with the LALD series editors.