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Acknowledgements
Thepublicationofthisvolumehasbeenpossiblethankstotheeffortsof
manypeople,whomwewouldliketothank.Aboveall,wethankRon
LangackerfordeliveringthisseriesoflecturesinMay2014.Itwasthethird
timethatRonhadacceptedtheinvitationoftheDepartmentofEnglishStud-
iesatUMCS,Lublin,Poland,theprevioustwooccasionsbeingin1993and
2001.Incidentally,thisthirdseriescoincidedwiththe50
th
anniversaryofthe
launchingofthedepartment,whichcertainlyaddedqualitytothecelebra-
tionswewerehavingatthetime.Ronhasalsobeensokindastocopy-edit
thetranscribedlecturesandprovideuswiththediagrams.Next,wethank
ProfessorHenrykKardelaforextendingtheinvitationtoRonandorganizing
hisvisit.Fordecades,HenrykhasbeeninstrumentalinpromotingCognitive
GrammarinPolandinallkindsofways,includinginitiativeinfacilitating
personalexposuretoitsauthor.SpecialthanksareduetoProfessorAnna
Pajdzińska,whohasbeenextremelygenerouswithhertimeandexpertise
–herinvaluableadvicehassavedusalotoftrouble.Lastbutnotleast,we
thankallotherswhohavebeenhelpfulinvariouswaysinpreparingthis
publication,butwhosenameswehaveomittedtomention.
AdamGłaz
HubertKowalewski
PrzemysławŁozowski
Lublin,July20,2016
