Acknowledgements

In the first place, we would like to thank Heike Behrens for so many years of company, support, and commitment to further our understanding of language and language acquisition.

We are very grateful to the reviewers for taking time to give detailed, constructive feedback on earlier versions of the contributions (in alphabetical order): Philipp Dankel, Sabine de Knop, Sarah Faidt, Catherine Ferris, Juliana Goschler, Martin Hilpert, Nikolas Koch, Bernd Kortmann, Zeynep Köylü, Miriam Locher, Wander Lowie, Martin Luginbühl, Christian Mair, Thomas Messerli, Stefan Pfänder, Antje Quick, Larissa Samuelson, Regula Schmidlin, Lotte Sommerer, Oliver Spiess, and Sascha Wolfer.

Our thanks also go to Lena Gohil, Charlotte Odermatt, Laura Patrizzi, and Aline Tettamanti for their help with editing and formatting.

Finally, we thank Kees Vaes and his team from John Benjamins as well as the TiLAR series editors, Shanley Allen and Evan Kidd, for accepting the volume in their series, their support over the last two and a half years of working on this book was highly appreciated. In particular, we are very grateful for their careful reviewing of the manuscript, making the book more coherent as a whole.

Last but not least, we thank the Swiss National Research Foundation for its generous support regarding open access funding.