国際化する日本語研究の現在を一望すべく企画された本書は、編者に日本語言語学の新たな定番教科書Japanese: A Linguistic Introduction (Cambridge University Press) で知られる長谷川葉子カリフォルニア大学バークレー校教授を迎えて、国内外の各専門を代表する研究者たちが書き下ろした全29章を収録。New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2018. This book, designed to serve as a concise reference for researchers interested in the Japanese language and in typological studies of language in general, consists of five thematic parts including sound system and lexicon, grammatical foundation and constructions, and pragmatics/sociolinguistics topics, with chapters that survey critical discussions arising in Japanese linguistics.