This book presents analyses of major grammatical constructions of Japanese in a version of phrase structure grammar called Japanese Phrase Structure Grammar (JPSG), which is loosely based on Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar (GPSG) and Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG). The basic concept in JPSG is unification. In this sense, JPSG is one of what is generically called "unification-based" grammars.

This is only one phrase structure rule in JPSG. This rule states that a mother dominates a head and another daughter to the left of the head. The nonhead daughter may be either a complement, an adjunct, or another head. Thus, in JPSG, phrase structures are mainly constructed on the basis of the lexical information of items which appear as heads, complements, adjuncts, etc.. Particular emphasis is placed on the binding and control of pronouns in complementation structures and adjunction and structures, with the difference of the present approach being highlighted by reviewing representative transformational analyses.

The expected audience includes Japanese linguists as well as people interested in phrase structure grammar in general. Although this book covers only the theoretical aspects of JPSG, computational linguists will also find the book of some relevance.

—— Takao Gunji

Gunji's book is well organized, very explicit, scholarly, insightful, technically impeccable, and it deals with a topic, Japanese syntax, which is now of great interest in both the theoretical and computational linguistic communities. I firmly believe that it will become a classic in the field of Japanese grammar alongside the work of Kuno and Kuroda that will be cited by linguists long after GPSG is forgotten.

In addition to being an invaluable research resource, this book is so clearly written and comprehensive that could readily serve as the main text for a one-term linguistic course on Japanese Grammar.

Although written within GPSG framework (to which chapter 2 provides a useful introduction), much of the work concerns itself with establishing what the facts of Japanese syntax really are in a way that is largely independent of the formal devices used to describe them (for example, the careful argumentation used to establish constituency). This makes the book useful to people working on other frameworks - or in no framework at all.

—— Gerald Gazdar

郡司隆男 (Takao Gunji)

東京都生まれ。東京大学理学部物理学科卒業（1974年）、同大学院理学系研究科修士課程修了（1976年）。オハイオ州立大学大学院計算機情報科学博士課程修了（理学博士）。同大学院言語学修士課程修了。大阪大学言語文化研究科助教授、教授、国際日本文化研究センター客員教授を経て、1999年より神戸松蔭女子学院大学教授。 2000-2006年同文学研究科長、2008-16年学長。

専攻分野は、理論言語学、計算言語学。岩波講座『言語の科学（全11巻）』の編集委員を務めた。脳科学に接合しつつあるチョムスキー系言語学の一方の権威。