Notes on Contributors. Preface. Acknowledgments. 1. Accent: Shosuke Haraguchi (University of Tsukuba). 2. Mora and Syllable: Haruo Kubozono (Kobe University). 3.
The Phonological Lexicon: Junko Itô and Armin Mester (both University of California at Santa Cruz). 4. Variationist Sociolinguistics: Junko Hibiya (Keio University). 5. Scrambling: Naoko Nemoto (Mt Holyoke College). 6. Reflexives: Takako Aikawa (Microsoft). 7.
Passives: Hiroto Hoshi (School of Oriental and African Studies). 8. Causatives: Shigeru Miyagawa (MIT). 9. Quantification and wh-Constructions: Taisuke Nishigauchi (Kobe Shoin Women's University). 10. Word Formation: Taro Kageyama (Kwansei Gakuin University). 11.
Tense and Aspect: Toshiyuki Ogihara (University of Washington). 12. Lexical Semantics: Natsuko Tsujimura (Indiana University). 13. First Language Acquisition: Yukio Otsu (Keio University). 14. Sentence Processing: Mineharu Nakayama (Ohio State University). 15.
Discourse Analysis and Pragmatics: Senko Maynard (Rutgers University). 16. Sociolinguistics: Honorifics and Gender Differences: Sachiko Ide and Megumi Yoshida (Japan Women's University). Bibliography. Index.