Preface

From Core to Periphery: A Study on the Directionality of Syntactic Change in Japanese

Kaoru Horie

On the Extension of Body-Part Nouns to Object-Part Nouns and Spatial Adpositions

Yo Matsumoto

Noun Classes: Language Change and Learning

Maria Polinsky

Dan Jackson

Multifunctionality: The Developmental Path of the Quotative tte in Japanese

Ryoko Suzuki

Suppletion in the Paradigms of Copula Verbs

Ljuba Veselinova

Learning the English Passive Construction

Patricia J. Brooks

Michael Tomasello

Verb Roots and Caregiver Speech in Early Tzotzil (Mayan) Acquisition

Lourdes De Leon

Cue Coordination: An Alternative to Word Meaning Biases

Virginia C. Mueller Gathercole

Enlli Mon Thomas

Soohee Kim

A Cross-linguistic Study of Early Acquisition of Nouns and Verbs in English and Japanese

Chikako Sakurai

Fake Guns and Stone Lions: Conceptual Blending and Privative Adjectives

Seana Coulson

Gilles Fauconnier

The System of Metaphors for Mind and the Conceptual System of Analytic Philosophy: A Study of the Metaphorical Constraints on Philosophical Discourse

George Lakoff

Lexical Meaning and Discourse Patterning: The Three Mandarin Cases of `build'

Meichun Liu

Fuzzy at First Sight: The Case of Two Dutch Prepositions

Dominiek Sandra

Hubert Cuyckens

The Semantics of Place, Time, and Way and their Strange Syntactic Behavior: A Construction Grammar Analysis

Christopher Johnson

On a tue le president! The nature of Passives and Ultra-indefinites

Jean-Pierre Koenig

The Syntactic Organization of Repair in Bikol

Steven Fincke

Tone-Choice Repair in Conversational Mandarin Chinese

Liang Tao

Barbara A. Fox

Jule Gomez De Garcia

Index