Cognition and Function in Language

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

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