Frontmatter -- Preface -- Introduction to the Handbooks of Japanese Language and Linguistics -- Table of Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- I Word-level semantics -- 1 The semantics of Japanese verbs -- 2 The semantics of nouns -- II Proposition-level semantics -- 3 Toward an empirical foundation for argument structure in Japanese, a prodrop language -- 4 Formal logical approaches to meaning in Japanese -- 5 Sentence structure and quantifier scope in Japanese: A retrospective and reanalysis -- III The semantics of time -- 6 Temporal categories: Interactions among tense, aspect, and nontemporal meaning -- 7 Formal treatments of tense and aspect -- 8 Tense and aspect in discourse -- IV The semantics of reality -- 9 Conditionals in Japanese -- 10 Negation -- 11 Possibility and necessity in Japanese: Prioritizing, epistemic, and dynamic modality -- V The semantics of information: Speaker-oriented modality -- 12 Evidentials: Marking the source of information -- 13 Presupposition and assertion -- 14 Sentence-final particles in Japanese -- VI Meaning in context: Inter-speaker modality and pragmatics -- 15 Nominal deixis in Japanese -- 16 Social deixis in Japanese -- 17 Conversational implicature -- 18 Japanese fillers as discourse markers: Meanings of "meaningless" elements -- Subject Index