In addition to commemorating the tenth anniversary of the Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference, this volume also serves as a tribute to James D. McCawley, a giant of 20th-century linguistics and a pioneer in East Asian scholarship. The 46 papers collected here bring together formalists, functionalists, discourse analysts, and cognitive linguists to examine the Japanese and Korean languages from a variety of perspectives.

In addition to commemorating the tenth anniversary of the Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference, this volume also serves as a tribute to James D. McCawley, a giant of 20th-century linguistics and a pioneer in East Asian scholarship. The 46 papers collected here bring together formalists, functionalists, discourse analysts, and cognitive linguists to examine the Japanese and Korean languages from a variety of perspectives.