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| List of Figures, Tables, and Maps | |
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| Preface to the Second Edition | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Phonetics | |
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| Phonetic Inventory | |
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| Place/Manner of Articulation and Voicing | |
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| Phonetic Inventory of English - Consonants | |
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| Stops | |
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| Fricatives | |
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| Affricates | |
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| Approximants | |
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| Nasals | |
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| Phonetic Inventory of Japanese - Consonants | |
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| Stops | |
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| Fricatives | |
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| Affricates | |
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| Approximants | |
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| Nasals | |
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| Phonetic Inventory of English - Vowels | |
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| Phonetic Inventory of Japanese - Vowels | |
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| Notes | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Phonology | |
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| Phonological Rules in Japanese | |
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| Devoicing of High Vowels | |
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| Nasal Assimilation | |
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| Alveolar Alternations | |
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| [h]/[[Phi]]/[c] Alternations | |
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| Digression on the Phoneme Status of [t[superscript s], c, s, j, [Phi], c] | |
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| Verbal Conjugation Rules | |
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| Rule Ordering | |
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| Sequential Voicing - "Rendaku" | |
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| Mora vs. Syllable | |
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| Speech Errors | |
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| English | |
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| Japanese | |
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| Language Games: "Babibu" Language | |
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| Accentuation in Japanese | |
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| Stress vs. Pitch | |
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| Accentuation in Japanese | |
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| Mora vs. Syllable | |
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| Accentuation of Long Nominal Compounds | |
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| Accentuation of Short Nominal Compounds | |
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| Accentual Variation among Endings | |
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| Mimetics | |
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| Loan Words | |
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| Casual Speech and Fast Speech | |
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| Length Requirements | |
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| Notes | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Morphology | |
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| Parts of Speech Categories | |
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| Nouns | |
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| Verbs | |
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| Adjectives | |
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| Adverbs | |
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| Postpositions | |
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| Case Particles | |
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| Adjectival Nouns | |
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| Verbal Nouns | |
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| Morpheme Types | |
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| Word Formation | |
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| Affixation | |
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| Compounding | |
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| Reduplication | |
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| Clipping | |
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| Borrowing | |
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| Head | |
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| Issues in Japanese Morphology (1): Transitive and Intransitive Verb Pairs | |
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| Issues in Japanese Morphology (2): Nominalization | |
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| Issues in Japanese Morphology (3): Compounding | |
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| Background | |
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| N-V Compounds | |
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| V-V Compounds | |
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| Lexical vs. Syntactic V-V Compounds | |
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| Lexical V-V Compounds: Semantic Relations | |
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| Lexical V-V Compounds: Transitivity and Argument Structure | |
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| Transitive and Intransitive Compound Verb Pairs | |
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| Compound Verbs and Nominalization | |
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| Notes | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Syntax | |
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| Syntactic Structures | |
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| Syntactic Constituency | |
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| Phrase Structures | |
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| Phrase Structure Rules | |
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| The Notion of Head | |
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| Subcategorization | |
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| Structural Relations | |
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| Transformational Rules | |
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| Yes-No Question | |
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| WH-Movement | |
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| Word Order and Scrambling | |
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| Scrambling Phenomenon | |
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| Configurationality | |
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| Evidence for the Movement Analysis | |
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| Numeral Quantifiers | |
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| Pronominal Reference | |
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| Some Restrictions on Scrambling | |
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| Null Anaphora | |
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| Syntactic Representation of Null Anaphora | |
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| Interpretation of Null Anaphora | |
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| Reflexives | |
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| Zibun | |
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| Zibun-Zisin | |
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| The Notion of Subject | |
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| Reflexivization | |
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| Subject Honorification | |
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| Passives | |
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| Direct Passives | |
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| Indirect Passives (Adversative Passives) | |
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| Ni Yotte-Passives | |
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| Causatives | |
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| O-Causatives and Ni-Causatives | |
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| The Double-O Constraint | |
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| The Structure of Causatives | |
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| Causative Passives | |
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| Adversative Causatives | |
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| Lexical Causatives | |
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| Relative Clauses (Sentence Modifiers) | |
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| The Ga/No Conversion | |
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| Relative Clauses without Gaps | |
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| Internally Headed Relative Clauses | |
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| Unaccusativity | |
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| The Light Verb Construction | |
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| Further Issues on Phrase Structure | |
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| X[prime]-Theory | |
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| Application to Japanese | |
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| Notes | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Semantics | |
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| Word Meaning and Sentence Meaning | |
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| Word/Phrase Meaning and Types of Relationships | |
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| Sentence Meaning | |
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| Metaphors and Idioms | |
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| Deixis | |
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| Mimetics | |
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| Tense and Aspect | |
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| Tense | |
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| Aspect | |
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| Grammatical Aspect | |
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| Lexical Aspect | |
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| Aspectual Verbs | |
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| Verb Semantics | |
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| Linking Regularity and Unaccusativity | |
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| Semantic Classes of Verbs and their Syntactic Patterns | |
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| Lexicalization | |
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| Pragmatics | |
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| Speaker's Meaning | |
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| The Nature of Information | |
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| Wa vs. Ga | |
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| Interaction with Syntax and Morphology | |
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| Relevance of Contextual Information | |
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| Notes | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Language Variation | |
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| Dialectal Variation | |
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| Styles and Levels of Speech | |
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| Gender Differences | |
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| Notes | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Language Acquisition | |
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| Regularity in Language Acquisition | |
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| Phonological Unit - Mora | |
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| Lexicalization Pattern and Mimetics | |
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| Tense/Aspect Marking | |
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| Generalizations in Children's Errors | |
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| Inflectional Morphology | |
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| Case Particles | |
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| Prenominal Modification | |
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| Theoretical Approaches to Verb Acquisition | |
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| Pragmatic Acquisition | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |