1. Opening Address (by Ikehata, Setsuho); 2. Center of Usage-Based Linguistic Information (UBLI) (by Kawaguchi, Yuji); 3. Preface (by Takagaki, Toshihiro); 4. Argument Structure in Discourse: Argument Choice in Possessive Constructions in Nuuchahnulth (by Nakayama, Toshihide); 5. Grammatical Markers in Early Baihua and Late Mediaeval Korean in Mengshan's Sayings (by Ito, Hideto); 6. When Words Form Sentences; Linguistic Field Theory: From Morphology through Morpho-Syntax to Supra-Morpho-Syntax (by Noma, Hideki); 7. A Usage-Based Analysis of the Causative Verb shi in Mandarin Chinese (by Miyake, Takayuki); 8. A Typology of Languages Based on Valence/Voice-marking and Focus (by Moriguchi, Tsunekazu); 9. Manner Adverb-like Adjectives in Malay (by Shoho, Isamu); 10. Two Turkish Clause Linkages; -DIK- and - mE: A Pilot Analysis Based on the METU Turkish Corpus (by Kawaguchi, Yuji); 11. Semi-Productivity and Valence Marking in Arabic: The So-Called "verbal themes" (by Ratcliffe, Robert R.); 12. The Imperfective Passive and Animacy in Russian (by Nakazawa, Hidehiko); 13. A Correspondance between N0-V-N1-de-N2 and N0-V-N2-Loc-N1 in French: The Case of Planter (by Tsuruga, Yoichiro); 14. Verb Constructions in English and Japanese: A Contrastive Study on Semantic Principles (by Sohmiya, Kiyoko); 15. Verb Forms in the Lest-Clause in Present-Day English (by Urata, Kazuyuki); 16. Project for the Sociolinguistic Study of Spanish from Spain and America (PRESEEA): A Corpus with a Grammar and Discourse Bias (by Moreno-Fernandez, Francisco); 17. On the Productivity of the Spanish Passive Constructions (by Takagaki, Toshihiro); 18. Index of Proper Nouns; 19. Index of Subjects; 20. Contributors