How languages describe spatial motion events has been a hotly discussed topic in recent years in cognitive linguistics and linguistic typology.　This two-volume book provides new descriptions and proposals on this fascinating topic, based on a large-scale experimental study of motion event descriptions in almost 20 languages across the globe as part of a research project conducted by　NINJAL The chapters are based on　papers presented at international conferences (most at NINJAL international symposium held in January 2019, some at International Cognitive Linguistics Conferences in 2017 and 2019). The book provides valuable descriptions of familiar and unfamiliar 　languages 　as well as insightful discussions of controversial issues based on those descriptions. This book　would interest students in linguistics and cognitive science in Asia, Europe and North America.

What does linguistic diversity tell us about the human mind? In the comprehensive volume, "Diversity in Language", a renowned team of contributors assesses the intricacies of linguistic variation. From historical perspectives on Indonesian to apparent time change in Smith Island verbs, from unplanned spoken Russian to argument structure in the Pacific Northwest, these essays render the full spectrum of linguistic possibility.

In this revised version of a 1992 Stanford University dissertation, the author presents an extensive discussion of Japanese complex predicates. A broad range of constructions and predicates are discussed, which include predicative complement constructions, light verbs, causative predicates, desiderative predicates, syntactic and lexical compound verbs, and complex motion predicates. A number of facts are uncovered, and detailed syntactic and semantic analyses are presented. On the basis of the analyses, the author argues that the notion "word" must be relativized to at least three different senses - morphological, grammatical (functional), and semantic - and that this observation can be insightfully captured in the theory of lexical-functional grammar. Previous proposals for each type of predicate that involve such mechanisms as argument transfer, incorporation, and restructuring are reviewed. Concrete proposals on the constraints on semantic wordhood are also made (an issue rarely discussed in the literature), drawing on insights from cognitive linguistics.