Acknowledgments

This volume is the product of a symposium that was held at the University of Tampere in October 2015. The theme of that one-day event was complementation, and it was held in honour of Professor Juhani Rudanko, who, at the time, was retiring from his post at the University. Half of the contributors to our volume share the good fortune of having been Juhani’s students at some point in his career; the other half have all had the pleasure of being associated with him in other ways, as a result of a common interest in complementation, or one of the other areas he is involved in. Thus the present volume, a collection of papers presented at the symposium, along with some invited contributions, is dedicated to Juhani, a gentleman and a scholar, in recognition of his substantial contributions to the field of complementation.

Thanks must go to the English Degree Programme at the University of Tampere, for the financial support which made the symposium possible. We also thank Juhani Klemola, Päivi Pahta, and Peter Slomanson, who, along with two of the editors, Mark Kaunisto and Paul Rickman, served on the organising committee. Mikko Höglund, Juhani’s former student and colleague, and one of the speakers at the symposium, kindly agreed to step in as a third editor of this volume. Emilia Luukko took care of all secretarial duties for the symposium with great efficiency and goodwill.

A number of people were called upon to act as external referees for the papers in this collection, and to these people, who allowed us to impose upon their time and make use of their expertise, we extend our warmest thanks: Laurie Bauer, Cristiano Broccias, Mark Davies, Hendrik De Smet, Patrick Duffley, Thomas Egan, Teresa Fanego, Olga Fischer, Tuomas Huumo, Urpo Nikanne, Gerold Schneider, Ian Smith, An Van linden, and Bao Zhiming. Naturally, the editors and the authors are responsible for all final decisions regarding the content of the chapters.

We are indebted to John Benjamins for including the volume as part of the Studies in Language Companion series. It has been a pleasure working with the people at Benjamins, with their cordial and uncomplicated approach to business matters. We thank Kees Vaes in particular for all the assistance.

The preparation of a volume like this is obviously the concerted effort of a large group of people, and those who provide the papers themselves are at the heart of the process. It has been a pleasure working with all of our contributors; it is mainly thanks to them, their professionalism, and the high quality of their work even in the early stages, that we have been able to keep roughly to our original production schedule.