Acknowledgements

In preparing this book for publication, we have received invaluable help from many colleagues. For their generous contributions in reviewing the individual chapters we would like to express our warmest thanks to Chris Lasse Däbritz, Cassandra Freiberg, Daniel García Velasco, Yueh Hsin Kuo, Martina Ivanová, Olga Krasnoukhova, J. Lachlan Mackenzie, Chris Reintges, Katie Schmirler, Edson Rosa Francisco de Souza, and Björn Wiemer. A special thanks goes to Jean-Christophe Verstraete, who, as the series editor of Typological Studies in Language in charge of this volume, gave detailed and helpful comments on the entire manuscript.