List of Figures, Tables, and MapsPreface to the Second EditionAcknowledgments1. IntroductionSuggested Readings2. Phonetics1. Phonetic Inventory1.1. Place/Manner of Articulation and Voicing1.2. Phonetic Inventory of English - Consonants1.

3. Phonetic Inventory of Japanese - Consonants1.4. Phonetic Inventory of English - Vowels1.5. Phonetic Inventory of Japanese - VowelsNotesSuggested ReadingsExercises3. Phonology1. Phonological Rules in Japanese1.

1. Devoicing of High Vowels1.2. Nasal Assimilation1.3. Alveolar Alternations1.4. [h]/[Φ]/[] Alternations1.

5. Digression on the Phoneme Status of [ts, č, Å¡, j, Φ, ç]1.6. Verbal Conjugation Rules1.7. Rule Ordering2. Sequential Voicing - "Rendaku"3. Mora vs.

Syllable3.1. Speech Errors3.2. Language Games: "Babibu" Language4. Accentuation in Japanese4.1. Stress vs.

Pitch4.2. Accentuation in Japanese4.3. Mora vs. Syllable4.4. Accentuation of Long Nominal Compounds4.

5. Accentuation of Short Nominal Compounds4.6. Accentual Variation Among Endings5. Mimetics6. Loan Words7. Casual Speech and Fast Speech8. Length RequirementsNotesSuggested ReadingsExercises4.

Morphology1. Parts of Speech Categories1.1. Nouns1.2. Verbs1.3. Adjectives1.

4. Adverbs1.5. Postpositions1.6. Case Particles1.7. Adjectival Nouns1.

8. Verbal Nouns2. Morpheme Types3. Word Formation3.1. Affixation3.2. Compounding3.

3. Reduplication3.4. Clipping3.5. Borrowing4. Head5. Issues in Japanese Morphology (1): Transitive and Intransitive Verb Pairs6.

Issues in Japanese Morphology (2): Nominalization7. Issues in Japanese Morphology (3): Compounding7.1. Background7.2. N-V Compounds7.3. V-V CompoundsNotesSuggested ReadingsExercises5.

Syntax1. Syntactic Structures1.1. Syntactic Constituency1.2. Phrase Structures1.3. Phrase Structure Rules1.

4. The Notion of Head1.5. Subcategorization1.6. Structural Relations2. Transformational Rules2.1.

Yes-No Question2.2. WH-Movement3. Word Order and Scrambling3.1. Scrambling Phenomenon3.2. Configurationality3.

3. Evidence for the Movement Analysis3.4. Some Restrictions on Scrambling4. Null Anaphora4.1. Syntactic Representation of Null Anaphora4.2.

Interpretation of Null Anaphora5. Reflexives5.1. Zibun5.2. Zibun-Zisin6. The Notion of Subject6.1.

Reflexivization6.2. Subject Honorification7. Passives7.1. Direct Passives7.2. Indirect Passives (Adversative Passives)7.

3. Ni Yotte-Passives8. Causatives8.1. O-Causatives and Ni-Causatives8.2. The Double-O Constraint8.3.

The Structure of Causatives8.4. Causative Passives8.5. Adversative Causatives8.6. Lexical Causatives9. Relative Clauses (Sentence Modifiers)9.

1. The Ga/No Conversion9.2. Relative Clauses without Gaps9.3. Internally Headed Relative Clauses10. Unaccusativity11. The Light Verb Construction12.

Further Issues on Phrase Structure12.1. X'-Theory12.2. Application to JapaneseNotesSuggested ReadingsExercises6. Semantics1. Word Meaning and Sentence Meaning1.1.

Word/Phrase Meaning and Types of Relationships1.2. Sentence Meaning1.3. Metaphors and Idioms1.4. Deixis1.5.

Mimetics2. Tense and Aspect2.1. Tense2.2. Aspect3. Verb Semantics3.1.

Linking Regularity and Unaccusativity3.2. Semantic Classes of Verbs and their Syntactic Patterns3.3. Lexicalization4. Pragmatics4.1. Speaker's Meaning4.

2. The Nature of Information4.3. Relevance of Contextual InformationNotesSuggested ReadingsExercises7. Language Variation1. Dialectal Variation2. Styles and Levels of Speech3. Gender DifferencesNotesSuggested ReadingsExercises8.

Language Acquisition1. Regularity in Language Acquisition1.1. Phonological Unit - Mora1.2. Lexicalization Pattern and Mimetics1.3. Tense/Aspect Marking2.

Generalizations in Children's Errors2.1. Inflectional Morphology2.1. Case Particles2.3. Prenominal Modification3. Theoretical Approaches to Verb Acquisition4.

Pragmatic AcquisitionSuggested ReadingsExercisesBibliographyIndex.