Acknowledgments
The work on this study was supported by the Ussurijsk Branch of the Far Eastern Federal University in Vladivostok through short Visiting Professorships for Zygmunt Frajzyngier in 2017 and 2018. The University of Colorado College of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Fund for Excellence grant allowed Natalia Gurian and Sergei Karpenko to record and transcribe narratives in addition to those recorded in the previous years of this study. The University of Colorado Small Grant program from the Center for Humanities and the Arts helped with the editing of the present work. May this book be an expression of our gratitude to the two institutions and their programs.
Natalia Gurian’s and Sergei Karpenko’s work on this study in 2020–2021 was also supported by a Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR) grant Nr. 20-012-00264.
We are most grateful to Alexander Kravchuk, Natalia Visarchuk, Svetlana Mikhailova, and Yana Yanovskaya who helped in recording and translating the narratives. Their participation in the early stages of the study allowed the study to move on.
Erin Shay’s most critical and helpful editorial assistance saved us from multiple errors.
We are most grateful to all speakers of Sino-Russian idiolects, who must remain anonymous, for their willingness to engage in the recordings of the narrative. If our translations and interpretations are not correct, it is entirely our fault.
Several colleagues helped in different ways. We would like to acknowledge anonymous readers for their comments on the whole volume. Raymond Hickey commented on the study of phonology. Fritz Newmeyer shared with us several of his recent papers. We would like to thank Robert Nicolaï for his willingness to consider this volume in the series he edits. The first author would not have thought that the conversations we had in Nice in 2000 and 2001 would have a closure 20 years later in a work that reflects Robert’s own interests.
We are most grateful to audiences at the Far Eastern Federal University in Ussurijsk and Vladivostok, at the University of Sonora (Mexico) and at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (Seoul) for their questions and comments on various aspects discussed in this study.
We would like to thank University of Colorado Center to Advance Research and Teaching in the Social Sciences for a small grant in support of this project. We are most grateful for Arianne Moerland for her excellent work in the preparation of this book for print.
And finally, many thanks to Elisa Perotti of Brill for shepherding this work through the production process.
Only we are responsible for the errors of fact or interpretation.