Selected papers include: "From Core to Periphery: A Study on the Directionality of Syntactic Change in Japanese" (Kaoru Horie); "On the Extension of Body-Part Nouns to Object-Part Nouns and Spatial Adpositions" (Yo Matsumoto); "Noun Classes: Language Change and Learning" (Maria Polinsky, Dan Jackson); "Multifunctionality: The Developmental Path of the Quotative 'tte' in Japanese" (Ryoko Suzuki); "Suppletion in the Paradigms of Copula Verbs" (Ljuba Veselinova); "Learning the English Passive Construction" (Patricia J. Brooks, Michael Tomasello); "Verb Roots and Caregiver Speech in Early Tzotzil (Mayan) Acquisition" (Lourdes de Leon); "Cue Coordination: An Alternative to Word Meaning Biases" (Virginia C. Mueller Gathercole, Ennli Mon Thomas, Soohee Kim); "A Cross-Linguistic Study of Early Acquisition of Nouns and Verbs in English and Japanese" (Chikako Sakurai); "Fake Guns and Stone Lions: Conceptual Blending and Privative Adjectives" (Seana Coulson, Gilles Fauconnier); "The System of Metaphors for Mind and the Conceptual System of Analytic Philosophy: A Study of the Metaphorical Constraints on Philosophical Discourse" (George Lakoff); "Lexical Meaning and Discourse Patterning: The Three Mandarin Cases of 'build'" (Meichun Liu); "Fuzzy at First Sight: The Case of Two Dutch Prepositions" (Dominiek Sandra, Hubert Cuyckens); "The Semantics of 'Place,''Time,' and 'Way' and Their Strange Syntactic Behavior: Construction Grammar Analysis" (Christopher Johnson); "On a tue le president! The Nature of Passives and Ultra-Indefinites" (Jean-Pierre Koenig); "The Syntactic Organization of Repair in Bikol" (Steven Fincke); and "Tone-Choice Repair in Conversational Mandarin Chinese" (Liang Tao, Barbara A. Fox, Jule Gomez de Garcia). (MSE)