I would like to express my thanks to the members of the Utrecht MiMo2 group. I furthermore thank the members of the Eurotra group in Utrecht and of the other Eurotra groups, the members of the linguistics department in Utrecht, the students of my Prolog classes, the people at the Computational Linguistics department and the DFKI in Saarbrücken, and my new colleagues on the fourth and fifth floor of the Harmony building in Groningen.
During the development of the ideas presented in this thesis I received many valuable comments and encouragements from at least the following people: Hiyan Alshawi, Rolf Backofen, Sergio Balari, Gosse Bouma, Luis Damas, Joke Dorrepaal, Marc Dymetman, Jan van Eijck, Pim van der Eijk, Maria Florenza, Claire Gardent, Dale Gerdemann, Jack Hoeksema, Heleen Hoekstra, Pierre Isabelle, Mark Johnson, Martin Kay, Jan Landsbergen, Klaus Netter, Günter Neumann, Steve Pulman, Mike Reape, Herbert Ruessink, Stuart Shieber, Neil Simpkins, Gerd Smolka, Louis des Tombe, Hans Uszkoreit, Nino Varile, Susan Warwick, Jürgen Wedekind, Pete Whitelock.
Daarnaast gaat mijn speciale dank natuurlijk uit naar Anke, Gosse en Petri
voor de hulp bij het voorbereiden van de promotiefestiviteiten.