Usage-based Approaches to Japanese Grammar: Towards the understanding of human language

Tsuyoshi Ono and Ryoko Suzuki: Introduction. Situating usage-based (Japanese) linguistics 

Part 1. Cognition and language use
Naomi H. McGloin: Subordination and information status. A case of To and Koto complement clauses in Japanese 
Yuki Johnson: On state of mind and grammatical forms from functional perspectives. The case for Garu and Te-iru 
Shoichi Iwasaki: Grammar of the internal expressive sentences in Japanese, Observations and explorations 
Rumiko Shinzato: Subjectivity, intersubjectivity and Japanese grammar. A functional approach 
Kaoru Horie and Heiko Narrog: What typology reveals about modality in Japanese. A cross-linguistic perspective 

Part 2. Frequency, interaction and language use
Timothy J. Vance: If rendaku isn’t a rule, what in the world is it? 
Yasuhiro Shirai: The semantic basis of grammatical development. Its implications for modularity, innateness, and the theory of grammar 
Kaori Kabata: Interchangeability of so-called interchangeable particles. Corpus analysis of spatial markers, Ni and E 
Junko Mori: The re-examination of so-called ‘clefts’. A study of multiunit turns in Japanese talk-in-interaction 
Makoto Hayashi: Activity, participation, and joint turn construction. A conversation analytic exploration of ‘grammar-in-action’ 

Part 3. Language change and variation
Yoshiko Matsumoto: Context in constructions. Variation in Japanese non-subject honorifics
Shigeko Okamoto: The use and interpretation of “regional” and “standard” variants in Japanese conversation