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