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Preface; 1. From core to periphery: a study on the directionality ofsyntactic change in Japanese; 2. On the extension of body-part nouns toobject-part nouns and spatial adpositions; 3. Noun classes: language changeand learning; 4. Multifunctionality: the developmental path of the quotativette in Japanese; 5. Suppletion in the paradigms of copula verbs; 6. Learningthe English passive construction; 7. Verb roots and caregiver speech in earlyTzotzil (Mayan) acquisition; 8. Cue coordination: an alternative to wordmeaning biases; 9. A cross-linguistic study of early acquisition of nouns andverbs in English and Japanese; 10. Fake guns and stone lions: conceptualblending and privative adjectives; 11. The system of metaphors for mind andthe conceptual system of analytic philosophy: a study of the metaphoricalconstraints on philosophical discourse; 12. Lexical meaning and discoursepatterning - the three Mandarin cases of 'build'; 13. Fuzzy at first sight:the case of two Dutch prepositions; 14. The semantics of place, time, and wayand their strange syntactic behavior: a construction grammar analysis; 15. Ona tue le president! the nature of passives and ultra-indefinites; 16. Thesyntactic organization of repair in Bikol; 17. Tone-choice repair inconversational Mandarin Chinese.