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1. Acknowledgement; 2. List of contributors; 3. Introduction: Situating usage-based (Japanese) linguistics (by Ono, Tsuyoshi); 4. Part 1. Cognition and language use; 5. Subordination and information status: A case of To and Koto complement clauses in Japanese (by McGloin, Naomi H.); 6. On state of mind and grammatical forms from functional perspectives: The case for Garu and Te-iru (by Johnson, Yuki); 7. Grammar of the internal expressive sentences in Japanese: Observations and explorations (by Iwasaki, Shoichi); 8. Subjectivity, intersubjectivity and Japanese grammar: A functional approach (by Shinzato, Rumiko); 9. What typology reveals about modality in Japanese: A cross-linguistic perspective* (by Horie, Kaoru); 10. Part 2. Frequency, interaction and language use; 11. If rendaku isn't a rule, what in the world is it? (by Vance, Timothy J.); 12. The semantic basis of grammatical development: Its implications for modularity, innateness, and the theory of grammar (by Shirai, Yasuhiro); 13. Interchangeability of so-called interchangeable particles: Corpus analysis of spatial markers, Ni and E (by Kabata, Kaori); 14. The re-examination of so-called 'clefts': A study of multiunit turns in Japanese talk-in-interaction (by Mori, Junko); 15. Activity, participation, and joint turn construction: A conversation analytic exploration of 'grammar-in-action' (by Hayashi, Makoto); 16. Part 3. Language change and variation; 17. Context in constructions: Variation in Japanese non-subject honorifics (by Matsumoto, Yoshiko); 18. The use and interpretation of "regional" and "standard" variants in Japanese conversation (by Okamoto, Shigeko); 19. Index