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Part I. Overview: 1. Introduction Yoko Hasegawa 2. The history of the language Bjarke Frellesvig 3. Layered structure, positional shifts, and grammaticalization Rumiko Shinzato 4. Linguistic typology and the Japanese language Kaoru Horie 5. Dialects Michinori Shimoji 6. Writing and literacy in modern Japan Florian Coulmas Part II. Sound System and Lexicon: 7. Moras and syllables Timothy J. Vance 8. Pitch accent Haruo Kubozono 9. Intonation Yosuke Igarashi 10. Semantics and morphosyntax of mimetics Kiyoko Toratani 11. Events and properties in morphology and syntax Taro Kageyama Part III. Grammatical Foundation: 12. Case Wataru Nakamura 13. Subjects and topics Yoko Hasegawa 14. Negation Hideki Kishimoto 15. Tense and aspect Wesley M. Jacobsen 16. Modality Heiko Narrog 17. Logophoricity, viewpoint, and reflexivity Yukio Hirose 18. Word order and extraction: a functional approach Mitsuaki Shimojo Part IV. Grammatical Constructions: 19. Nominalization Masayoshi Shibatani 20. Clausal noun modification Yoshiko Matsumoto 21. Internally headed relativization and related constructions Kyoko Hirose Ohara 22. Benefactives Nobuko Hasegawa 23. Passives Shoichi Iwasaki 24. Conditionals Seiko Fujii Part V. Pragmatics/Sociolinguistics: 25. Sentence-final particles Emi Morita 26. Linguistic politeness Michael Haugh 27. Speech style shift Haruko Minegishi Cook 28. Discourse/conversation analysis Polly Szatrowski 29. Japanese language, gender, and sexuality Shigeko Okamoto