Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Preface -- List of contributors -- 1. Application of cognitive-functional linguistics to the study of Japanese as a second and foreign language: An introduction -- Part I: Usage-based approaches -- 2. The acquisition of linguistic categories in second language acquisition: A functionalist approach -- 3. Friendly and respectful politeness: A functional analysis of L2 utterances -- 4. What learners know about lexical aspect in L2: Motion verbs kuru 'come' and iku 'go' and the acquisition of imperfective -teiru in Japanese -- 5. A usage-based account of learner acquisition of Japanese particles ni and de -- 6. A usage-based approach to relativization: An investigation of advanced-learners' written production of relative clauses in Japanese -- Part II: Conceptual approaches -- 7. A multimedia encyclopedia of Japanese mimetics: A frame-semantic approach to L2 sound-symbolic words -- 8. A cognitive approach to the comprehension of intransitive constructions in L1 and L2 Japanese -- 9. An L2 corpus study of the Japanese grammatical marker -te-simau: An application of force dynamics -- 10. The L2 acquisition of Japanese Motion event descriptions by L1 English speakers: An exploratory study -- 11. Influence of L1 English on the descriptions of motion events in L2 Japanese with focus on deictic expressions -- 12. Subject-object contrast (shukakutairitsu) and subject-object merger (shukaku-gouitsu) in "thinking for speaking"¹: A typology of the speaker's preferred stances of construal across languages and its implications for language teaching -- Part III: Current state and future directions of cognitive-functional-linguistics-informed L2 studies -- 13. A survey of work published in Japan at the dawn of the new millennium -- 14. Towards better integration of linguistics research, SLA, and pedagogy -- Subject index