This book has an interesting history of collaboration. It began life in research done by Greville Corbett and Norman Fraser on the morphology of Russian, starting in 1990, research which was inspired by the work of Roger Evans and Gerald Gazdar on DATR. The ESRC and Leverhulme Trust provided funding, which brought Dunstan Brown and Andrew Hippisley to Surrey, and the work developed into a more general theoretical framework, Network Morphology. We found syncretism of increasing importance in the development of the framework and gave presentations at the following places: Krems (Austria), University of Sussex, Linguistics Association of Great Britain (at the University of Surrey), University of California (Berkeley), Gregynog (Wales), Heinrich-Heine-Universität (Düsseldorf), University of Edinburgh, University of Cologne, University of Helsinki, La Trobe University, Norsk Forening for Språkvitenskap (Oslo), Institutt for Østeuropeiske og Orientalske Studier (University of Oslo), Moscow University, University of Oxford, Cornell University, Twelfth International Conference on Historical Linguistics (University of Manchester), Conference on Lexical Structures (Wuppertal), British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (Cambridge), University of Sheffield, University of Essex, University of Pennsylvania, Leipzig University, Association for Linguistic Typology (University of Amsterdam), Second Mediterranean Meeting on Morphology (University of Malta), Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (Nijmegen), Second Winter Typological School (Istra, Moscow district), Ninth International Morphology Meeting (Vienna), University of California (Santa Barbara), University College London, Second Northwest Conference on Slavic Linguistics (Berkeley), Stockholm University, 37th Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, Fakultetets Forsknings Fredage (University of Copenhagen), University of Melbourne, Scandinavian Slavists' Summer School (Kungälv, Sweden), University of Leeds, School of Oriental and African Studies (London), University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, Lancaster University, University of Catania, Second International Seminar ‘Computer Treatment of Slavonic Languages’ (Bratislava), and University of York.