“…Tanaka, 1999Tanaka, , 2001Mori, 1999;Hayashi, 2003;Morita, 2002Morita, , 2005Morita, , 2012Iwasaki, 2009Iwasaki, , 2011Iwasaki, , 2013Kim, 2001;Kim and Suh, 2010;Hayano, 2011;Lim, 2011;Endo, 2013;Ju, 2011). In the present special issue, we continue not to compare two or more languages directly.…”