Frontmatter -- Preface -- Introduction to the Handbooks of Japanese Language and Linguistics -- Contributors -- Introduction -- I. Verbal constructions and related issues -- 1. Transitivity in Japanese from a typological perspective -- 2. Non-canonical constructions in Japanese: A crosslinguistic perspective -- 3. Voice extension in passives and causatives -- 4. Causative constructions in Japanese and Korean -- 5. Entailed and intended results in Japanese and Burmese accomplishment verbs -- 6. Resultative constructions in Japanese from a typological perspective -- 7. Verb-Verb compounding in Japanese and Turkish -- 8. Ainu complex predicates with reference to Japanese -- 9. Motion event descriptions in Japanese from typological perspectives -- 10. Deictic motion constructions in Japanese and Thai -- 11. Event integration patterns in Sidaama and Japanese -- II. Nominal constructions and related issues -- 12. Nominalization in crosslinguistic perspective -- 13. Clausal noun-modifying constructions -- 14. Noun-modifying constructions in Swahili and Japanese -- 15. Quantifier float in Japanese and English -- 16. Measure nouns and numerals -- 17. Japanese spatial deixis in crosslinguistic perspective -- 18. 'Who', 'what', and 'which' in Japanese and Chinese -- 19. Inalienable possession in Japanese, English, and Warrongo -- III. Aspect, modality, and prediction -- 20. Continuous aspects in Japanese, Newar and Meche -- 21. Modality in Japanese from a crosslinguistic perspective -- 22. Modality in Japanese and Spanish -- 23. Internal state predicates in Japanese and Thai -- 24. Property predication in Koryak viewed from Japanese -- 25. Subordination and insubordination in Japanese from a crosslinguistic perspective -- Subject index