Frontmatter -- Preface -- Introduction to the Handbooks of Japanese Language and Linguistics -- Table of contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- 1. Basic sentence structure and grammatical categories -- 2. Transitivity -- 3. Topic and subject -- 4. Toritate: Focusing and defocusing of words, phrases, and clauses -- 5. The layered structure of the sentence -- 6. Functional syntax -- 7. Locative alternation -- 8. Nominalization -- 9. The morphosyntax of grammaticalization in Japanese -- 10. Modality -- 11. The passive voice -- 12. Case marking -- 13. Interfacing syntax with sounds and meanings -- 14. Subject -- 15. Numeral quantifiers -- 16. Relative clauses -- 17. Expressions that contain negation -- 18. Ga/no conversion -- 19. Ellipsis -- 20. Syntax and argument structure -- 21. Attributive modification -- 22. Scrambling -- Subject index