Acknowledgements
We would like to thank twenty external reviewers, whose identity can unfortunately not be revealed. Their constructive comments and criticisms have contributed a lot to the final quality of this issue. Thanks are of course also due to De Gruyter Mouton, and specifically to Olga Fischer and Muriel Norde, the editors of Folia Linguistica and Folia Linguistica Historica. It has been a pleasure to co-operate with them in bringing this special issue about. Finally, this issue would not have come about at all without the advice, the support and the many hours of invaluable work put into the project by Magdalena Schwarz, Theresa Matzinger and Klaus Hofmann. I could not think of working with a better editorial team.
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