Front matter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction: What do Japanese learners of English tell us about SLA? / Wakabayashi, Shigenori -- I: VP structures -- Japanese learners' acquisition of English motion verbs with goal PPs / Inagaki, Shunji -- Unaccusatives versus passives in L2 English / Hirakawa, Makiko -- II: Functional categories -- The acquisition of the nominative and accusative cases in English by Japanese learners at an early stage / Suda, Koji / Wakabayashi, Shigenori -- The acquisition of a second language C-system by Japanese learners of English / Shirahata, Tomohiko -- Pied-piping and stranding in oblique relative clauses in Japanese EFL learners' interlanguage grammars / Ohba, Hiromasa -- Is an interlanguage a "possible grammar"?: How Japanese speakers learn CP structures in English / Kuribara, Chieko -- III: New empirical data -- Japanese learners' errors on long distance wh-questions / Wakabayashi, Shigenori / Okawara, Izumi -- N400 in the brain potential responses of second language learners: What ERPs suggest / Tomita, Yuichi / Fukuda, Kazuhiko / Tatsuta, Natsuko -- List of contributors -- Index |