Acknowledgments

Many people helped make this work possible. Most importantly, I want to thank Katharina Hartmann and Joachim Sabel for their feedback and advice, as well as Markus Egg and Carsten Breul for their support at the early stages of this study, and Daniel Hole for support at the later stages. The linguistics department in Frankfurt, including the Graduate School on Nominal Modification, not only allowed me to discuss the work frequently with my colleagues, but also made it possible to share parts of this work beyond Frankfurt at various conferences and with different researchers, and I am very grateful for all the input I received.

I am also indebted to Maureen Mwende for providing most of the Swahili data, and Jennifer Tan for the Tagalog data and a lot of discussion on the topic. In addition to this, she also proofread the majority of the chapters, which improved them significantly. I am thankful for the opportunity to publish this work in the Linguistics Today series provided by Elly van Gelderen and Werner Abraham, and for the help with the publishing process I have received from Kees Vaes from John Benjamins.