Acknowledgement

The research on personification and this volume would not have been possible without the support of many people and institutions. First and foremost, I am grateful to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences for the Bolyai János Research Grant. It provided me with the means for focused scientific work on corpus building and analysis, ensuring constant motivation to improve the quality of my research. I would like to express my gratitude to the Faculty of Arts at Eötvös Loránd University for their ongoing support of my research through awards and for providing me with a sabbatical to write this book. I am especially thankful to my colleagues in the ELTE DiAGram Research Group for Functional Linguistics, the ELTE Stylistic Research Group, and the ELTE MetaID Research Group. These research groups enabled me to collaborate with outstanding researchers across various fields of functional and cognitive linguistics. Their suggestions have consistently inspired me to improve my scientific work. I also wanted to say a special thank to Ninke Stukker, Nanon Labrie and Ymke Verploegen that they accepted my manuscript into the series “Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research” and supported its publication with careful editorial work. Finally, my heartfelt thanks go out to my family; without their emotional support, I would not have even started this research.