JAPANESE -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- PREFACE -- ROMANIZATION AND TEXT PRESENTATION -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- Chapter 1. OVERVIEW -- 1. Geographical and historical background of the language -- 2. Preliminary remarks on the grammar of the language -- Chapter 2. WRITING SYSTEM -- Chapter 3. SOUNDS -- 1. The inventory of sounds -- 1.1. Vowels -- 1.2. Glides (semi-vowels -- 1.3. Consonants -- 2. Phonological rules -- 2.1. High vowel devoicing -- 2.2. Nasal assimilation -- 2.3. Sequential voicing (rendaku) -- 3. Mora and syllable -- 4. Accent -- Chapter 4. WORDS -- 1. Vocabulary strata -- 2. Word classes -- 2.1. Major word classes -- 2.1.1. Nouns -- 2.1.2. Adjectives -- 2.1.3. Nominal adjectives -- 2.1.4. Verbs -- 2.2. Minor word classes -- 2.2.1. Adverbs -- 2.2.2. Conjunctives -- 2.2.3. Adnouns -- 2.2.4. Auxiliaries -- 2.2.5. Copula -- 2.2.6. Particles -- 2.2.7. Affixes -- 2.2.8. Interjection -- 3. Some notable word classes -- 3.1. Sound-symbolic words -- 3.2. Numerals and numeral-classifiers -- 3.2.1. Numerals -- 3.2.2. Numeral classifiers and numeric phrases -- Chapter 5. MORPHOLOGY -- 1. Morphology of the inflectional category -- 1.1. Verb morphology -- 1.1.1. Derivational suffixes -- 1.1.2. Inflectional suffixes -- 1.1.3. "Onbin" (Sandhi) -- 1.1.4. Transitive-intransitive opposition -- 1.2. Adjective morphology -- 1.3. Copula morphology -- 1.4. Polite register inflection paradigms -- 2. Word-formation processes -- 2.1 Noun equivalents -- 2.2. Affixation -- 2.3. Compounding -- 2.4. Reduplication -- 2.5. Clipping -- Chapter 6. ARGUMENT STRUCTURES -- 1. Argument structure types -- 1.1. Argument structures with stative predicates -- 1.2. Argument structures with eventive predicates -- 1.3. Argument structure for the reportative verbs -- 2. Adjunct noun phrases -- 3. Syntactic roles.

4. Noncanonical argument structures -- Chapter 7. TENSE AND ASPECT -- 1. Tense -- 2. Aspect -- 2.1.The perfect: -ta -- 2.2. The progressive and resultative aspects:-te-iru and -te-aru -- 2.3. The completive aspect: -te-shimau -- 2.4. The inchoative aspect: (a) (ni/-ku) naru -- (b) -te-kuru and -te-iku -- Chapter 8. GRAMMATICAL CONSTRUCTIONS -- 1. Passive construction -- 1.1. Eventive passives -- 1.1.1. Direct passives : -(r)are- as a "voice converter" -- 1.1.2. Indirect passives: -(r)are- as a "valence increaser" -- 1.2. Stative Passives: -(r)are- as a "stativizer" -- 2. Spontaneous construction -- 3. Potential construction -- 4. Causative construction -- 4.1. Lexical causatives -- 4.2. Morphological causatives -- 4.2.1. Intransitive-based morphological causatives -- 4.2.2. Transitive-based morphological causatives -- 4.3. Periphrastic causatives -- 4.4. Causative-passives -- 5. Benefactive construction -- 5.1. Basic structure -- 5.2. "Malefactive" interpretation -- 5.3. Causative-benefactives and passive-benefactives -- 6. Reciprocal construction -- 6.1. Lexical reciprocals -- 6.2. Morphological reciprocals -- 6.3. Periphrastic reciprocals -- 7. Numeric phrases -- Chapter 9. NOUN PHRASE STRUCTURES -- 1. Genitive and associative phrases -- 2. Simple attributive phrases -- 3. Clausal noun modification -- 3.1. "Cased head'' type (Relative clause) -- 3.2. "Adverbial head " type -- 3.3. "Relational head" type -- 3.4. "Content label head" type ("Appositive clause ") -- 4. Some syntactic characteristics -- Chapter 10. EMBEDDING -- 1. Quotation: Quoted speech and thought -- 2. Complementation -- 2.1. The object complement -- 2.2. The subject complement -- 3. Internally headed relative clauses (IHRs) -- 4. Integrated adverbial clauses -- 5. Summary -- Chapter 11. INFORMATION STRUCTURE AND THE SENTENCE FORM -- 1. The declarative sentence.

1.1. The topic-comment sentence -- 1.1.1 Specific and generic sentences -- 1.1.2. The "eel" sentence -- 1.1.3. The "-wa -ga" sentence structure -- 1.2. The topic-less sentence -- 1.2.1. The exclamatory sentence -- 1.2.2. The presentational sentence -- 1.3. The mixed-type sentence -- 1.4. Summary -- 2. Information structure -- 2.1. Topicalization -- 2.2. The focus structure -- 2.3. The cleft argument focus construction -- 2.4. The contrastive structure -- Chapter 12. DISCOURSE AND GRAMMAR -- 1. Clause combining -- 1.1. Conjoining -- 1.1.1. Coupling -- 1.1.2. Contrast -- 1.2. Adverbial subordination -- 1.2.1. Temporal clauses -- 1.2.2 Conditionals -- 1.2.3. Cause/reason -- 1.2.4. Concessive -- 1.2.5. Purpose -- 1.2.6. Circumstantials -- 1.3. Clause chaining and continuity marking -- 1.4. The "open " clausal structure and discourse organization -- 2. Referent tracking (Anaphora) -- 2.1 Personal pronouns, reflexive pronouns, and logophoric pronouns -- 2.2. Zero anaphora -- 2.3. Demonstratives as discourse deixis -- 2.3.1. Nominal reference -- 2.3.2. Discourse reference -- Chapter 13. PRAGMATICS AND GRAMMAR -- 1. Modality -- 1.1. Speech-act related modality -- 1.2. Agent-oriented modality -- 1.3. Epistemic modality -- 1.3.1. Judgments -- 1.3.2. Evidentials -- 2. Information status and the interaction process -- 2.1 Markers of information status -- 2.2. Markers of the communication process -- 3. Subjectivity effects -- 3.1. Expressions of evaluation -- 3.2. Expressions of internal states -- 3.3 Deictic expressions -- 3.3.1. Demonstratives -- 3.3.2. Movements and giving -- 4. Speech levels and honorifics -- 4.1 Speech levels -- 4.2. Honorifics -- 4.2.1. Addressee honorifics -- 4.2.2. Referent honorifics -- 5. Male/female speech -- 6. Speech register -- Chapter 14. SAMPLE TEXTS -- 1. Newspaper article -- 2. Folk tale -- 3. First person narrative ("Air Raid").

4. Conversation (1): "The Northridge earthquake" -- 5. Conversation (2): "Australia" -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX -- The series London Oriental and African Language Library.