Kensei Sugayama is Professor in the Department of English, Kobe City University of Foreign Studies, Japan. Richard A. Hudson is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Phonetics and Linguistics, University College London.

'The book as a whole gives an interesting insight into the state-of-the-art Word Grammar framework and the possible fields of application other than syntax. The contribution by its founder is valuable, in that it puts the theory into perspective and projects it into the future challenges of the language science field.' Valeria Quochi, University of Pisa, Italy.

• 1. What is Word Grammar?; Dick Hudson, UCL; Part I: Word Grammar Approaches to Linguistic Analysis; 2. Case Agreement in Ancient Greek: Implications for a Theory of Covert Elements; Chet Creider (University of Western Ontario, Canada) and Dick Hudson; 3. Understood Objects in Japanese and English: A Word Grammar Account; Kensei Sugayama (Kobe City University, Japan). 4. Argument Linking in Word Grammar; Jasper Holmes; 5. Word Grammar and Syntactic Code-Switching Research; Eva Eppler (University of Surrey, Roehampton); 6. Re-Consideration of the Particle ml in Turkish: An Approach from Clitics and Hostword; Taiki Yoshimura (Ankara University); Part II: Towards a Better Word Grammar; 7. Word Grammar Surface Structures and HPSG Order Domains; Takahumi Maekawa (University of Essex); 8. Distributional Heads and Structural Heads; And Rosta (University of Central Lancashire); 9. Factoring out the Subject Dependency; Nik Gisborne (University of Edinburgh); 10. Conclusion; Kensei Sugayama and Dick Hudson; References.

Kensei Sugayama is Professor in the Department of English, Kobe City University of Foreign Studies, Japan. Richard A. Hudson is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Phonetics and Linguistics, University College London.

'The book as a whole gives an interesting insight into the state-of-the-art Word Grammar framework and the possible fields of application other than syntax. The contribution by its founder is valuable, in that it puts the theory into perspective and projects it into the future challenges of the language science field.' Valeria Quochi, University of Pisa, Italy.

• 1. What is Word Grammar?; Dick Hudson, UCL; Part I: Word Grammar Approaches to Linguistic Analysis; 2. Case Agreement in Ancient Greek: Implications for a Theory of Covert Elements; Chet Creider (University of Western Ontario, Canada) and Dick Hudson; 3. Understood Objects in Japanese and English: A Word Grammar Account; Kensei Sugayama (Kobe City University, Japan). 4. Argument Linking in Word Grammar; Jasper Holmes; 5. Word Grammar and Syntactic Code-Switching Research; Eva Eppler (University of Surrey, Roehampton); 6. Re-Consideration of the Particle ml in Turkish: An Approach from Clitics and Hostword; Taiki Yoshimura (Ankara University); Part II: Towards a Better Word Grammar; 7. Word Grammar Surface Structures and HPSG Order Domains; Takahumi Maekawa (University of Essex); 8. Distributional Heads and Structural Heads; And Rosta (University of Central Lancashire); 9. Factoring out the Subject Dependency; Nik Gisborne (University of Edinburgh); 10. Conclusion; Kensei Sugayama and Dick Hudson; References.