did much more than proofreading, their comments are highly appreciated and I decided
to publish these comments as additional open reviews. Armin Buch, Leonel de Alencar,
Andreas Hölzl, Gianina Iordăchioaia, Timm Lichte, Antonio Machicao y Priemer, and
Neal Whitman deserve special mention here.
I thank Wolfgang Sternefeld and Frank Richter, who wrote a detailed review of the
German version of this book (Sternefeld & Richter 2012). ey pointed out some mistakes
and omissions that were corrected in the second edition of the German book and which
are of course not present in the English version.
anks to all the students who commented on the book and whose questions lead to
improvements. Lisa Deringer, Aleksandra Gabryszak, Simon Lohmiller, eresa Kallen-
bach, Steen Neuschulz, Reka Meszaros-Segner, Lena Terhart and Elodie Winckel de-
serve special mention.
Since this book is built upon all my experience in the area of grammatical theory, I
want to thank all those with whom I ever discussed linguistics during and aer talks at
conferences, workshops, summer schools or via email. Werner Abraham, John Bateman,
Dorothee Beermann, Rens Bod, Miriam Bu, Manfred Bierwisch, Ann Copestake, Hol-
ger Diessel, Kerstin Fischer, Dan Flickinger, Peter Gallmann, Peer Haugereid, Lars Hel-
lan, Tibor Kiss, Wolfgang Klein, Hans-Ulrich Krieger, Andrew McIntyre, Detmar Meu-
rers, Gereon Müller, Martin Neef, Manfred Sailer, Anatol Stefanowitsch, Peter Svenon-
ius, Michael Tomasello, Hans Uszkoreit, Gert Webelhuth, Daniel Wiechmann and Arne
Zeschel deserve special mention.
I thank Sebastian Nordho for a comment regarding the completion of the subject
index entry for recursion.
Andrew Murphy translated part of Chapter 1 and the Chapters 2–3, 5–10, and 12–23.
Many thanks for this!
I also want to thank the 27 community proofreaders (Viola Auermann, Armin Buch,
Andreea Calude, Rong Chen, Mahew Czuba, Leonel de Alencar, Christian Döhler,
Joseph T. Farquharson, Andreas Hölzl, Gianina Iordăchioaia, Paul Kay, Anne Kilgus,
Sandra Kübler, Timm Lichte, Antonio Machicao y Priemer, Michelle Natolo, Stephanie
Natolo, Sebastian Nordho, Parviz Parsafar, Conor Pyle, Daniela Schröder, Eva Schultze-
Berndt, Alec Shaw, Benedikt Singpiel, Anelia Stefanova, Neal Whitman, Viola Wiegand)
that each worked on one or more chapters and really improved this book. I got more
comments from every one of them than I ever got for a book done with a commercial
publisher. Some comments were on content rather than on typos and layout issues. No
proofreader employed by a commercial publisher would have spoed these mistakes
and inconsistencies since commercial publishers do not have sta that knows all the
grammatical theories that are covered in this book.
During the past years, a number of workshops on theory comparison have taken place.
I was invited to three of them. I thank Helge Dyvik and Torbjørn Nordgård for inviting
me to the fall school for Norwegian PhD students Languages and eories in Contrast,
which took place 2005 in Bergen. Guido Mensching and Elisabeth Stark invited me to
the workshop Comparing Languages and Comparing eories: Generative Grammar and
Construction Grammar, which took place in 2007 at the Freie Universität Berlin and An-
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