Acknowledgements
This handbook project has been an exciting inquiry through charted and uncharted territories of English historical linguistics. We take the opportunity of expressing our heartfelt thanks to all those who lent their support to us and helped us to complete the project.
We are indebted to our authors who agreed to take up the task of contributing to this project. Their expertise in the subject matter and attention to the handbook context energized the editorial process and propelled us to navigate onward.
Further, we are grateful to the anonymous reviewers of the draft chapters, who unsparingly gave their time to help our authors to enhance their texts. As editors of the handbook, we also benefited from reviewer comments in many ways.
In practical terms, we are glad to acknowledge the invaluable assistance of Veera Saarimäki, who guided us through draft chapter files and unfailingly helped us to attend to editorial details over the different stages of the project.
We also gratefully acknowledge the support of the Department of English at Uppsala University (Sweden) and the School of Language, Translation and Literary Studies at the University of Tampere (Finland). Without their financial assistance, completing our project would have been difficult.
Our final thanks must go to Helen Barton, Commissioning Editor in Language and Linguistics at Cambridge University Press, who trusted us with this book and who served as a valuable sounding board throughout the project.
