Acknowledgements We also want to thank Johannes Wagner and Anders Hougaard for organizing the inspiring Language and Communication workshop,where mgm met her dear friend Uri Hasson,and after much discussion realized that EMCL needed to happen. The support staff at Cornell was absolutely invaluable in getting so many things done, both with the workshops as with this volume.A tremendous thank you to Linda LeVan, Elizabeth Chandler,Pam Cunningham,Mary Lou DeBoer,Keith Daniels,and Fred Horan. Thanks are also due to the co-organizers of the two subsequent EMCL workshops. In Portsmouth,England,a thank you to Chris Sinha for inviting the workshop to come to his Language,Culture and Mind Conference(2004),and to Stephanie Pourcel,Stanka Fitneva and Joerg Zinken,co-organizers with mgm,whose dedication led to a workshop where questions key to the further development of the discipline were brought to the fore. Currently,Javier Valenzuela and mgm are co-organizing EMCL 3 in Murcia,Spain.A thank you to Javier and to the Spanish Cognitive Linguistics Association(AELCO)for inviting us to come! Thank you to Kees Vaes and the editorial team at John Benjamins for their tremendous patience with this volume,and to the head editors of Human Cognitive Processing,the book series this volume will be a part of,Jan Van Nuyts,Ray Gibbs,and Marcelo Dascal. A special thank you to Raymond Becker for loving,supporting,and generally taking care of mgm. Finally,many thanks to our two anonymous reviewers at John Benjamin's and to our student/faculty reviewers,Monica Sanaphre,Raymond B.Becker,Javier Valenzuela, Joseph Hilferty,Uri Hasson,Christina Soriano,James Cutting,Rick Dale,Shweta Narayan,Sebastian Ross-Hagemon,Rick Dale,Nathaniel Smith,Bo Pederson,Fey Parrill, Stanka Fitneva,Erin Hannon,Joel Snyder,Florencia Reali,Benjamin Hiles,Daniel Graham,Vito Evola,Reka Benczes,Daniel Kislyuk,Thomas Farmer,Sophia Skoufaki,and Christian Koops. Original EMCL committee: Monica Gonzalez-Marquez,Chair Seana Coulson Rick Dale Irene Mittelberg Michael SpiveyJB[v.20020404] Prn:12/04/2007; 9:21 F: HCP18AC.tex / p.2 (128-180)  Acknowledgements We also want to thank Johannes Wagner and Anders Hougaard for organizing the inspiring Language and Communication workshop, where mgm met her dear friend Uri Hasson, and after much discussion realized that EMCL needed to happen. The support staff at Cornell was absolutely invaluable in getting so many things done, both with the workshops as with this volume. A tremendous thank you to Linda LeVan, Elizabeth Chandler, Pam Cunningham, Mary Lou DeBoer, Keith Daniels, and Fred Horan. Thanks are also due to the co-organizers of the two subsequent EMCL workshops. In Portsmouth, England, a thank you to Chris Sinha for inviting the workshop to come to his Language, Culture and Mind Conference (2004), and to Stephanie Pourcel, Stanka Fitneva and Joerg Zinken, co-organizers with mgm, whose dedication led to a workshop where questions key to the further development of the discipline were brought to the fore. Currently, Javier Valenzuela and mgm are co-organizing EMCL 3 in Murcia, Spain. A thank you to Javier and to the Spanish Cognitive Linguistics Association (AELCO) for inviting us to come! Thank you to Kees Vaes and the editorial team at John Benjamins for their tremendous patience with this volume, and to the head editors of Human Cognitive Processing, the book series this volume will be a part of, Jan Van Nuyts, Ray Gibbs, and Marcelo Dascal. A special thank you to Raymond Becker for loving, supporting, and generally taking care of mgm. Finally, many thanks to our two anonymous reviewers at John Benjamin’s and to our student/faculty reviewers, Monica Sanaphre, Raymond B. Becker, Javier Valenzuela, Joseph Hilferty, Uri Hasson, Christina Soriano, James Cutting, Rick Dale, Shweta Narayan, Sebastian Ross-Hagemon, Rick Dale, Nathaniel Smith, Bo Pederson, Fey Parrill, Stanka Fitneva, Erin Hannon, Joel Snyder, Florencia Reali, Benjamin Hiles, Daniel Graham, Vito Evola, Reka Benczes, Daniel Kislyuk, Thomas Farmer, Sophia Skoufaki, and Christian Koops. Original EMCL committee: Monica Gonzalez-Marquez, Chair Seana Coulson Rick Dale Irene Mittelberg Michael Spivey