Index

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgement vii
4. List of contributors ix
5. Introduction: Situating usage-based (Japanese) linguistics 1
6. Part 1. Cognition and language use
7. Subordination and information status 13
8. On state of mind and grammatical forms from functional perspectives 37
9. Grammar of the internal expressive sentences in Japanese 55
10. Subjectivity, intersubjectivity and Japanese grammar 85
11. What typology reveals about modality in Japanese 109
12. Part 2. Frequency, interaction and language use
13. If rendaku isn’t a rule, what in the world is it? 137
14. The semantic basis of grammatical development 153
15. Interchangeability of so-called interchangeable particles 171
16. The re-examination of so-called ‘clefts’ 193
17. Activity, participation, and joint turn construction 223
18. Part 3. Language change and variation
19. Context in constructions 261
20. The use and interpretation of “regional” and “standard” variants in Japanese conversation 279
21. Index 305