Acknowledgements
The authors wish to express their gratitude to all the informants who were so kind as to supply the necessary data for this research. Without their invaluable help, this book would have been unthinkable. Unless otherwise specified, the contents of this book on each of the following languages were provided as personal communications and/or in the form of questionnaires by the informants. The source of examples is cited in the text only in languages for which two informants supplied data. Where the same data were provided by the two informants, the source is not explicit in the text. The informants are, in alphabetical order by language:
- Afrikaans
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Suléne Pilon and Gerhard B. van Huyssteen
- Amele
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John R. Roberts
- Amharic
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Grover Hudson
- Anejom
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John Lynch
- Bardi
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Claire Bowern
- Belorussian
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Svetlana Rudaja and Alena Rudenka
- Breton
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Greg T. Stump
- Catalan
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Max Wheeler
- Cirecire
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Andy Chebanne
- Clallam
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Timothy Montler
- Dangaléat
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Erin Shay
- Datooga
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Roland Kießling
- Diola-Fogny
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Kirsten Fudeman
- Dutch
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Jan Don
- English
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Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy
- Estonian
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Annika Kilgi
- Finnish
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Vesa Koivisto and Johana Laakso
- French
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Dany Amiot
- Gã
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M.E. Kropp Dakubu
- Georgian
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Nino Amiridze
- German
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Christiane Dalton-Puffer
- Greek
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Angela Ralli
- Hausa
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Paul Newman
- Hebrew
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Ora Schwarzwald
- Hungarian
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Ferenc Kiefer
- Ilocano
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Carl Rubino
- Indonesian
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Franz Müller
- Italian
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Livio Gaeta
- Japanese
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Mark Volpe
- Kalkatungu
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Barry Blake
- Karao
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Sherri Brainard
- Ket
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Edward Vajda
- Konni
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Michael Cahill
- Lakhota
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Regina Pustet
- Luganda
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Xavier Luffin
- Luo
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Joost Zwarts
- Maipure
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Raoul Zamponi
- Malayalam
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K.-P. Mohanan
- Mandarin Chinese
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Karen Steffen Chung
- Māori
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Ray Harlow
- Marathi
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Veena Dixit
- Nelemwa
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Isabelle Bril
- Portuguese
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Rui Marques
- Romanian
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Niculina Iacob and Gina Măciucă
- Russian
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Peter Arkadiev
- Serbian-Croatian
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Gordana Štasni
- Slavey
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Keren Rice
- Slovak
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Ján Horecký and Martin Ološtiak
- Spanish
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Laura Malena Kornfeld
- Swahili
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Ellen Contini-Morava
- Swedish
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Arne Olofsson
- Tamil
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Harold F. Schiffman
- Tatar
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Uli Schamiloglu and Susan Wertheim
- Telugu
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Sailaja Pingali
- Tibetan
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Nathan W. Hill
- Totonac
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David Beck
- Trinidadean Creole
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Donald Winford
- Ukrainian
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Peter Lizanec
- Vietnamese
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Mark Alves and Nguyên Thái Ân
- West Greenlandic
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Michael Fortescue
- Wichí
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Verónica Nercesian
- Yoruba
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Oye Taiwo
- Zulu
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Andrew van der Spuy
This publication was supported by the the Slovak Academic Grant Agency (VEGA), grant No. 1/2236/05, and Spanish Junta de Andalucía (Incentivos de Carácter Científico y Técnico de la Junta de Andalucía, 3/2008). We also owe a great deal to the linguists who generously shared their expertise with us and gave such insightful advice, recommendations and comments. They are, in alphabetical order:
Laurie Bauer
Winifred Bauer
Ruth A. Berman
Shmuel Bolozky
Geert Booij
Klára Buzássyová
Adelia Carstens
Taro Kageyama
Viktor Krupa
Rochelle Lieber
Lubor Mojdl
Jonathan Owens
Sergio Scalise
Dana Slančová
Chad Thompson
Ghil’ad Zuckermann
Special thanks are owed to four anonymous referees and to Leanne V. Bartley, Fraser T. Bayles, Miguel Ángel Benítez Castro, Karen Steffen Chung, Ana Díaz-Negrillo, Jesús Fernández-Domínguez, Encarnación Hidalgo Tenorio, Arne Olofsson, Sailaja Pingali, Franz Rainer, Francisco Valera Hernández and Mark Volpe for reading and commenting on the manuscript and to all those who were so kind as to provide us with the examples in their original script: Mark Alves (Vietnamese), Nino Amiridze (Georgian), Karen Steffen Chung (Mandarin Chinese), Niladri Dash (Hindi), Veena Dixit (Marathi), Taro Kageyama (Japanese), Harold Schiffman (Tamil), Ghil’ad Zuckermann and Ruth Berman (Hebrew) and Joost Zwarts (Luo).
