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Acknowledgements
Itisusuallythecasethatwhenonewantstothankpeopleafterworkingon
aprojectformanyyears,onehardlyknowswheretostart.Firstandforemost,
neitherthisbooknormanyotherpublicationsonVantageTheorythatIhave
authoredwouldhaveappearedwithoutpersonalcontactwiththemastermind
behindthetheory,thelateRobertE.MacLaury.Itisonlytoberegretedthat
thecontactwasprematurelysevered.
OverthelastfifteenyearsIhavealsohadaprivilegeofcooperatingwith
andreceivingsupportofvariouskindsfrommanyresearchersinandreview-
ersofVTworldwide:NobukoAdachi,KeithAllan,AlenaAnishchanka,Ben
Blount,MałgorzataFabiszak,IsabelForbes,DirkGeeraerts,CarolineGrace,
JaneHill,KimberlyJameson,LuisaMaf,MarnieMoist,AleksandraNiewiara,
ThanhNyan,GalinaParamei,HannaPishwa,SerhiyPotapenko,DennisPres-
ton,ElizabethRiddle,ChrisSinha,JamesStanlaw,DanutaStanulewicz,John
Taylor,ElenaTribushinina,OctavianaTrujillo,MargaretWinters,Lazhar
Zanned.IhavereceivedinvaluablehelpfromMaria(Maru)MacLaury,who
painstakinglysearchedherlatehusband’svastarchivesandsharedhisnotes
andunpublishedVTmaterialwithme.SpecialthanksareduetoHenryk
Kardela,myseniorcolleagueandmentorattheEnglishDepartment,UMCS,
whofirstencouragedmetotakeaninterestinVantageTheory.Buthuman
memoryisnotreliable,norareinfactmynotes,soIapologizetoallthose
whomIshouldhavementionedbuthavenot.
Ialsothankmynative-speakerinformants,whohavewillinglyshared
theirinterpretationsofseveralusesoftheEnglisharticles,AlanMcMillionand