Acknowledgements

We extend our sincere gratitude to the CNRS/IRD/INALCO research unit (UAR8202) Structure et Dynamique des Langues (SeDyL) for their unwavering support, without which this volume would not have come to fruition. Their funding made possible a series of scholarly activities devoted to topicality and grammar, including a seminar cycle and the international workshop “Topic Continuity and Topic Persistence,” held on 6–7 June 2021 at the INALCO Research Center in Paris. We are also indebted to the Centre d’Études Mexicaines et Centraméricaines (CEMCA, UAR 3337) for its institutional support, which greatly facilitated the coordination of this volume and the collaboration between the authors and to the ANR 19-FRAAL-0008-01 (2022–2025) Project “Ergativity and Information Structure: Comparing Chibchan Languages” (CHIBERGIS), funded jointly by the ANR and the DFG, whose support has provided a broader comparative and typological perspective to the research gathered here.

We wish to express our heartfelt thanks to all external reviewers for their careful and constructive evaluations of the chapters. Among those who consented to be acknowledged, we extend our appreciation to Peter Arkadiev, Natalia Cáceres, Charlotte Hemmings, Aimée Lahaussois, Gilles Polian, Pollet Samvelian, Eva van Lier, and Eline Visser. We are grateful to Hugo H. Vázquez for his meticulous work in preparing and formatting the manuscripts to meet the editorial standards of John Benjamins.

Finally, we warmly thank the Editors of the series Typological Studies in Language for their support throughout the publication process, and especially Jean-Chris­tophe Verstraete, whose careful reading of every chapter and ongoing com­mit­ment to scientific rigor have greatly contributed to the quality of this volume.