Acknowledgments
This is a book of friends, new and old. I would like to thank all the authors who were as excited and engaged with the topic as myself, and the anonymous reviewers who helped improve the book through their time and expertise.
I am grateful for the institutional support of Indiana University over the years. IU facilitated not just the research conditions but also the travel to the meetings of the Societas Linguistica Europaea in Athens and the International Conference on Historical Linguistics in Heidelberg that allowed me to discuss this book project with several authors and with Brill. Specifically, I am grateful to the Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs for the International Mobility Grant that I received in the Summer of 2023. I am also grateful to the College of Arts and Sciences and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese for the Graduate Research Assistant support in the Spring of 2023 for Jeremy Dickinson. A word of thanks to Ana Velasco from the Office of Research Development as well as to Willa Tavernier from IU Libraries.
Within Brill, I thank Elisa Perotti for her support for this project at its initial stage, and Wendy Logeman for her assistance.
I would like to thank Keir Moulton for his feedback, guidance, and patience at multiple stages of this project.
I am also grateful to Beatrice Marchesi for her help with Latin glosses, and to Macy Maas for her editorial assistance.
A special thanks to Chiara Gianollo for the many ways in which she helped bring this book to fruition.
And to Lino, thank you for teaching me that there is always another way.