Owen Edwards is a researcher currently based in Christchurch, New Zealand. He studied linguistics at the Australian National University (B.A. linguistics and German 2012, Ph.D. linguistics 2017). He has worked in The Netherlands, Australia, Germany, and New Zealand. For the past decade he has been carrying out fieldwork on the languages of eastern Indonesia and Timor-Leste, especially in Timor and southern Maluku. His research interests are phonology, non-concatenative morphology, morphophonemics, historical linguistics, and language documentation. He is the managing editor of Oceanic Linguistics and on the Advisory Board of the Language & Culture Unit (UBB) in Kupang. While Owen Edwards is a member of the editorial board of this series, he played no role in the editorial process of accepting the book here for publication. The same is true for all other Language Science Press series editors and their books.