Acknowledgements

This volume came about as the result of the contribution of several people without whom the book would not have materialised. We therefore want to express our gratitude to the following people. First, we’d like to thank Izzie Collins and Helen Barton from Cambridge University Press for welcoming the idea of the volume and for their patience and support while completing it. Helen is a former student of Dick Hudson, who contributed to sparking the enthusiasm for linguistics in her. The British Academy kindly hosted the conference on which most of the contributions are based. Several colleagues, friends, collaborators and ex-students of Dick Hudson’s attended the event without submitting to this volume. It was great that they came. A massive thank you to Dick for bringing us all together. The anonymous reviewers of Cambridge University Press are thanked for their feedback and comments on the chapters in this volume. The contributors not only put considerable effort into their own chapters but also carefully reviewed one chapter each. We would also like to thank Kilmeny MacBride for her excellent work copy-editing the volume.