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Primarily speech breaks down into nouns and verbs as the largest gears of a sentence--with adjectives, adverbs, and prepositions serving as the grease that keeps them turning and the occasional conjunction to link two thoughts. Noun countability and verbal tense or aspect are quite ingrained in the language, and just like pronouns, serve to make ideas behind an action clearer chronologically and in terms of the actor and object. Much of the (numerous) irregularities in the language have to simply be learned by heart, thought there are a number of mnemonics and tricks to acquire patterns among the chaos. Knowledge of phonology is advantageous here.
Since most of the content here is review for me, I would say the most interesting thing I came across is how the definition of transitive vs. intransitive differs between English and Japanese verb classifications. In English, intransitive merely describes a verb that doesn't take an object, yet in Japanese, it goes further to encompass a class of verbs that could even be considered passive in English (for example, "osowaru" means "to be taught," for which we would usually employ a passive construct in English). Goes to show that linguistic classifications are quite fluid, though less so within the context of a single language.
