Heinz Giegerich is Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His previous publications include Metrical phonology and phonological structure (CUP 1985), English phonology (CUP 1992) and Lexical strata in English (CUP 1999). At EUP he is the editor of the Edinburgh textbooks on the English language and a co-founder and co-editor (with Laurie Bauer and Greg Stump) of the journal Word Structure