Acknowledgments

This monograph originated during my studies at University of Tromsø. I would like to express my gratitude to all people who have helped me and inspired me throughout the course of my studies. I would like to thank Rosmin Mathew for reading my drafts and making useful comments, suggestions and encouragement.

I wish to thank the following people who have given their valuable time to provide me with judgment of Japanese sentences: Makoto Inami, Risa Kaneko, Yoshie Kasajima, Yuko Kawami, Megumi Kimura, Atsushi Koike, Takako Matsuoka, Hijiri Takagi, Kanako Uzawa, Shotaro Wake, Chihiro Yabe and Naoyuki Yamato.

My thanks also go to Darija Tadin-Durović who has provided me with technical support related to Latex.

The revision of this book was done while I was a postdoctoral scholar at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. I would like to thank everyone at the old department of Scandinavian Studies and Comparative Literature, for making the department intellectually stimulating and enjoyable place to do linguistics.

I would like to thank the editors Werner Abraham, Elly van Gelderen and Kees Vaes for their interest in the work and the help in the publication process.

Lastly but not certainly least, I would like to thank my family, Anna, Ken, Martin and Tom for their support, patience, and love.