Acknowledgments
Much of the material in the present study was presented at courses taught, and lectures delivered, at V Coloquio de Lingüística Mauricio Swadesh at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico (UNAM) and at the University of Sonora in Hermosillo, Mexico. I would like to express my gratitude to Dr. Jesús Villalpando Quiñonez and Dr. Gabriela González Ramirez of the UNAM, as well as to Professors Zarina Estrada Fernández and Albert Alvarez of the University of Sonora, for inviting me to present the results of my research. Findings in various chapters were presented at the International Congress in Cognitive Linguistics at Düsseldorf in 2023 (with Kyung-Im Han), at the ‘Langues et Langage à la croisée de Discipline’ conference in Paris in 2024, and in lectures at the University of Frankfurt, the City University of Hong Kong, and the University of Stockholm. I am most grateful to the audiences at these presentations for their comments and questions. I would like to thank my co-author in Chapter 2, Kyung-Im Han, for inviting me to work on locative expressions in Korean. I am grateful to Krystyna Kowalik at Cracow for the most helpful bibliographic information regarding various issues in the grammar of Polish. To Brian Joseph, editor of the Brill’s EALT series, I am grateful for considering this book for publication in the series. I am grateful to Uri Tadmor, Elisa Perotti, Wendy Logeman, and Seçil Ümitvar for their guiding in the preparation of this volume. To an anonymous reader of the manuscript I am most grateful for useful comments regarding the presentation of the material in this book. To speakers of Pero, Mupun, Mina, Hdi, Gidar, Lele and Wandala who worked with me at various times, teaching me about their languages and patiently showing me where I was wrong, I am most grateful for showing me the semantic nuances of which I would otherwise never be aware. I am very grateful to Erin Shay, who read the complete manuscript and made many editorial suggestions and questioned some of my analyses of English. None of the people mentioned in this work is responsible in any way for any errors of fact or interpretation in this study. This work was supported by a grant from the Retired Faculty Association of the University of Colorado. I would like to thank Marlou Meems of TAT Zetwerk for her truly exceptional work in converting my original manuscript into a clear and readable format. Any remaining errors are entirely my own.