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This volume presents a comprehensive survey of the lexicon and word
formation processes in contemporary Japanese, with particular
emphasis on their typologically characteristic features and their
interactions with syntax and semantics. Through contacts with a
variety of languages over more than two thousand years of history,
Japanese has developed a complex vocabulary system that is composed
of four lexical strata: (i) native Japanese, (ii) mimetic, (iii)
Sino-Japanese, and (iv) foreign (especially English). This hybrid
composition of the lexicon, coupled with the agglutinative
character of the language by which morphology is closely associated
with syntax, gives rise to theoretically intriguing interactions
with word formation processes that are not easily found with
inflectional, isolate, or polysynthetic types of languages.
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