In this paper, I propose a novel analysis of long-distance scrambling constructions in Japanese that is linguistically more adequate than those previously suggested in the literature. At the heart of my proposal is the view, suggested in Yatabe (1993), that there is a theoretically significant parallelism between long-distance scrambling in Japanese and extraposition in languages like English. I present some additional evidence for this view in Section 1, and then describe in Section 2 how the parallelism in question can be captured within a framework in which syntactic structure and linear order are mediated not via encodings of hierarchical relations but instead via order domains.
(S. Yatabe, "Long-distance scrambling via partial compaction," in Masatoshi Koizumi, Masayuki Oishi, and Uli Sauerland, eds., Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics 2 (MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 29), MITWPL, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1996, pp. 303-317.)