Shibatani, Masayoshi / Kageyama, Taro -- Contributors -- Introduction / Pardeshi, Prashant / Kageyama, Taro -- I. Verbal constructions and related issues -- 1. Transitivity in Japanese from a typological perspective / Pardeshi, Prashant -- 2. Non-canonical constructions in Japanese: A crosslinguistic perspective / Shibatani, Masayoshi / Pardeshi, Prashant -- 3. Voice extension in passives and causatives / Washio, Ryuichi -- 4. Causative constructions in Japanese and Korean / Chung, Sung-Yeo / Shibatani, Masayoshi -- 5. Entailed and intended results in Japanese and Burmese accomplishment verbs / Kato, Atsuhiko -- 6. Resultative constructions in Japanese from a typological perspective / Kageyama, Taro / Shen, Li -- 7. Verb-Verb compounding in Japanese and Turkish / Kuribayashi, Yuu -- 8. Ainu complex predicates with reference to Japanese / Bugaeva, Anna -- 9. Motion event descriptions in Japanese from typological perspectives / Matsumoto, Yo -- 10. Deictic motion constructions in Japanese and Thai / Takahashi, Kiyoko -- 11. Event integration patterns in Sidaama and Japanese / Kawachi, Kazuhiro -- II. Nominal constructions and related issues -- 12. Nominalization in crosslinguistic perspective / Shibatani, Masayoshi -- 13. Clausal noun-modifying constructions / Matsumoto, Yoshiko / Comrie, Bernard -- 14. Noun-modifying constructions in Swahili and Japanese / Yoneda, Nobuko -- 15. Quantifier float in Japanese and English / Takami, Ken-ichi -- 16. Measure nouns and numerals / Watanabe, Akira -- 17. Japanese spatial deixis in crosslinguistic perspective / Imai, Shingo -- 18. 'Who', 'what', and 'which' in Japanese and Chinese / Kimura, Hideki -- 19. Inalienable possession in Japanese, English, and Warrongo -- III. Aspect, modality, and prediction -- 20. Continuous aspects in Japanese, Newar and Meche / Kiryu, Kazuyuki -- 21. Modality in Japanese from a crosslinguistic perspective / Narrog, Heiko -- 22. Modality in Japanese and Spanish / Fukushima, Noritaka -- 23. Internal state predicates in Japanese and Thai / Uehara, Satoshi / Thepkanjana, Kingkarn -- 24. Property predication in Koryak viewed from Japanese / Kurebito, Megumi -- 25. Subordination and insubordination in Japanese from a crosslinguistic perspective / Horie, Kaoru -- Subject index |