Quantitative Investigations in Theoretical Linguistics (qitl3) Program Committee Organizing Committee

co-hosted by the Linguistic Association of Finland (SKY) in association with the Department of General Linguistics at the University of Helsinki. This workshop is both a continuation of the two previous QITL events held in 2002 and 2006 in Osnabrück, Germany, and the latest in the sequence of summer symposia arranged annually by SKY. We are grateful to a number of people and organizations for their support and assistance in making this Workshop happen. Among the previous organizers, have provided us with invaluable encouragement and guidance in both getting the organization process started and at various stages along the way. Moreover, the support of Professor Fred Karlsson, University of Helsinki, for co-hosting this Workshop together with the Department of General Linguistics has in many ways has facilitated its practical arrangement. We were pleased to receive in all 36 submissions, though we could accept only one half (16) for oral presentation within the confines of our schedule, with a single general session according to QITL traditions. Consequently, we have incorporated for the first time also a Poster Session into the Workshop program for a further set of eight promising submissions. We look forward to hearing the final presentations and the kaleidoscope of linguistic research questions that they address with the help of quantitative methods, which is what this Workshop is essentially about. With respect to long preparatory process leading to this Workshop, we want to thank each and every member of our Program Committee for their thorough reviews which guided us in evaluating the submitted abstracts and selecting from among them the ones for presentation, in addition to the constructively critical comments that were provided for all submissions, whether we could accept them into the program or not. We firmly believe that such feedback is crucial in building up the scientific quality of a workshop such as QITL3. Furthermore, we wish to thank our " local " members on the Program Committee, Juhani Järvikivi, Matti Miestamo, and Martti Vainio, for acting as a sounding-board for various decisions we took on the way concerning the makeup of the Workshop, though the final responsibility is naturally only ours. We also extend our thanks to Heidi Merimaa and Johanna Ratia for their assistance in practical administration and budgeting concerning this Workshop. Finally, we also want to thank our governmental and corporate sponsors, the