Acknowledgements

A stoplight parrotfish dramatically changes from one phase to another. As a young fish, it is deep red, army green, and muted beige. As an adult, it is impossibly bright, its tailfins yolky yellow and its body the aqua-pink of the sea at sunset. You would not guess one turns into the other.

Where I’m going with this: Colleagues, friends, and reviewers generously read this book and offered feedback, transforming it into something clearer and brighter – the remaining want of which is entirely on me. Thank you, Norbert Elliot, principal and principled reader, for your tireless support and feedback. Thank you, Dylan Dryer, for reading multiple chapters multiple times and for telling me when something worked. Thank you, Shawna Shapiro, for reading and sending emails with exclamation points. Thank you, Bethany Aull, for reading multiple drafts with your generous eye. Thank you, John Swales, for reading and telling me to read. Thank you to my writing group, Anne Ruggles Gere, Ebony Thomas, and Mary Schleppegrell, for helping me write more accessibly. Thank you, Sigrid Anderson, for a fresh take. Thank you, Julie Buntin, for the cover and the commiserations. Thank you, Monu Lahiri, for listening. Thank you, Liz Aull and Tammy Cantarella, for generously agreeing to read. Thank you, Kathleen Fleury, for believing. Thank you, James, for diving in all kinds of seas. Let me know if you find the endnote about you. Thank you, Little Cayman Divers, Dougie, Craig, Grace, and David, for boat breaks from this book, and for your morphologically savvy shirts.

Thank you to Andrew Appleton Pine for exciting discussions at the start of the project; thank you to Jason Godfrey for thoughtful and cheerful work at the end of the project. Thank you to Rosie Ettenheim for original continuum visuals. Thank you to Monu, Kile, Julie, Gabe, James, Sarah, Nika, Bethany, Randall, Paul, monét cooper, and my fall 2022 English linguistics students for feedback on the cover and title.

Thanks to all these and other family, friends, students, and colleagues for conversations and learning that keep me full of wonder. Thank you to the excellent team at Cambridge University Press, especially my editor Becky Taylor for stellar support from the start of this project to the last. Thank you to the patient organizational guru Izzie Collins and the meticulous Charles Phillips. Thank you to Rebekah Johnston at Cambridge Assessment Archives for enthusiastic help. Thank you to proposal and manuscript reviewers who engaged so thoughtfully with this project. Thank you to the University of Michigan TOME fund and its dedicated committee for making it possible that this book be open access, so that anyone able and willing to read its digital version can do so. This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem) – a collaboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses, and the Association of Research Libraries – and the generous support of the University of Michigan. Learn more at the TOME website: openmonographs.org.