Frontmatter -- Preface -- Introduction to the Handbooks of Japanese Language and Linguistics -- Table of contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- I. Lexicon and vocabulary items -- 1. Vocabulary strata and word formation processes -- 2. Lexical categories -- 3. Sino-Japanese words -- 4. Mimetics -- 5. The morphology of English loanwords -- II. Morphology and word formation -- 6. Word structure and headedness -- 7. Noun-compounding and noun-incorporation -- 8. Verb-compounding and verb-incorporation -- 9. Conversion and deverbal compound nouns -- 10. Derivational affixation in the lexicon and syntax -- 11. Complex predicates with -te gerundive verbs -- 12. Light verb constructions with verbal nouns -- 13. Inflection -- 14. Lexical integrity and the morphologysyntax interface -- III. Word classes and syntactic behavior -- 15. Lexical meaning and temporal aspect -- 16. Stative and existential/possessive predicates -- 17. Agent nominals -- 18. Complement-taking nouns -- 19. Idioms -- Subject index