Frontmatter -- Preface -- Introduction to the Handbooks of Japanese Language and Linguistics -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I: Prehistory and reconstruction -- 1 Reconstruction of Japonic and para-Japonic based on external sources -- 2 Ryukyuan and the reconstruction of proto-Japanese-Ryukyuan -- 3 Towards the prosodic reconstruction of proto-Japanese-Ryukyuan -- Part II: Phonology -- 4 Reconstruction of Old Japanese phonology -- 5 Old Japanese writing and phonology -- 6 Late Middle Japanese phonology, based on Korean sources -- 7 Late Middle Japanese phonology as reflected in early Japanese Christian documents -- 8 Sino-Japanese -- 9 The Ramsey hypothesis -- Part III: Grammar -- 10 Differential argument marking in Old Japanese: Morphology, semantics, and syntax -- 11 The syntax and morphology of Early Middle Japanese -- 12 Late Middle Japanese grammar -- 13 The historical changes in the case marking system of Japanese -- 14 Voicings of kakari-musubi: Shifting from cleft construction to referential predicate -- 15 Loss of wh-movement -- 16 Development of adverbial particles -- 17 The history of demonstratives -- 18 Vision and the verbs of visual perception in Man'yōshū: From mirativity to 'mitate' -- Part IV: Lexicon, Materials and Kanbun -- 19 The history of basic vocabulary in Japanese -- 20 The Japanese lexicon as reflected in Christian materials -- 21 What mokkan (wooden documents) can tell us about ancient Japanese language -- 22 Early Japanese dictionaries -- 23 Kunten texts of Buddhist provenance (butten 仏典): Their characteristics and actuality -- 24 Kunten texts of secular Chinese origin (kanseki 漢籍) -- 25 Japanized written Chinese: Its features and contribution to the history of the Japanese language -- 26 Early modern kanbun and kanbun-kundoku -- 27 The influence of kanbun-kundoku vocabulary on the Japanese language -- Index