Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter One: Introduction -- Chapter Two: Methodology -- Chapter Three: Chamorro morphology and syntax -- Chapter Four: The role of topicality in a general comparison of the coding devices of transitive propositions -- Chapter Five: Functional analysis of passives in Chamorro -- Chapter Six: A functional look at the antipassive -- Chapter Seven: Complex sentence constructions -- Chapter Eight: Discourse organization and paragraph thematicity -- Chapter Nine: Conclusions -- Appendix A : Sample story -- Appendix Β: List of abbreviations -- References -- Index