Frontmatter -- Preface -- Introduction to the Handbooks of Japanese Language and Linguistics -- Contents -- List of tables -- List of figures and maps -- List of abbreviations -- Contributors -- Introduction: Japanese dialects -- Part I: Overview of Japanese dialectology -- 1 The classification and division of Japanese dialects -- 2 Dialect formation in Japanese: Evaluating Yanagita's theory of peripheral distribution of dialect forms -- 3 Geolinguistics of Japanese -- Part II: Topics in Japanese dialectology -- 4 Sound variations in the mainland Japanese dialects -- 5 VOT variations in Japanese word-initial stops -- 6 Accent in Japanese dialects -- 7 Intonation in Japanese dialects -- 8 Metaphorical expressions in sericultural vocabulary -- 9 Case and related phenomena in Japanese dialects -- 10 Grammaticalization of aspect and tense in Japanese dialects -- 11 Potential expressions in Japanese dialects -- 12 Verbs of giving in Japanese dialects -- 13 Honorific and related expressions in Kansai Dialects -- 14 Japonic nominalizations in cross-dialectal perspective -- 15 Sentence-final particles in Japanese dialects -- Part III: Sketch grammars of Japanese dialects -- 16 Hokkaidō dialect -- 17 Tsugaru dialect (Western Aomori) -- 18 Fukushima dialect -- 19 Ibaraki dialect -- 20 Tōkyō dialect (Metropolitan area) -- 21 Toyama dialect -- 22 Gifu dialect -- 23 Kyōto dialect -- 24 Hiroshima dialect -- 25 Izumo dialect (Shimane) -- 26 Kagawa dialect -- 27 Kōchi dialect -- 28 Kagoshima dialect -- 29 Hachijō dialect -- Index