Dear Ivan,

You started to work about nothing (ellipsis or three dots as an early version of the German Wikipedia entry claimed) and now – forty years later – you write about everything (syntax, semantics, psycholinguistics, …). Congratulations on your achievements!

From the beginning of the HPSG conferences you were against publishing the proceedings and suggested that people turn their papers into journal articles since these are much more visible.

I want to give you an article about copula constructions in German, English, and Danish as a present. I submitted it to a journal and hope it will be accepted soon.

I hope that you can enjoy it for a long time!

All the best

Stefan