This volume contains papers presentented at the Second International Workshop on Japanese Syntax, held at Stanford University. In these papers the topic of syntax is broadly construed as covering discourse phenomena ands the interface between morphology and syntax.
Their papers included in this volume are "Subcategorization and Word Order," by Takao Gunji; "Discourse Factors in the Binding of Sibun," by Masayo Iida and Peter Sells; "Japanese Zero Pronominal Binding : Where Syntax and Discourse Meet," by Megumi Kameyama; "Belnded Quasi-Direct Discourse in Japanese," by Susumu Kuno ; "Whether We Agree or Not: A Comparitive Syntax of English and Japanese," by Shige-Yuki Kuroda; "Case Deletion and Discourse Context," by Kiyoko Masunaga; "Predication and Numeral Quantifier," by Shigeru Miyagawa; "Readjustement and Compound Formation," by Masayoshi Shibatani and Taro Kageyama.
WILLIAM J. POSER is assistant professor of linguistics and director of the Phonetics Lab at Stanford University.