Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- Part one: Sentential syntax and sentence types -- Deriving linear order in OV/VO languages: evidence from Oceanic languages -- Questions and answers in Niuean -- Questions and word order in Polynesian -- Nominalization and exclamation in Oceanic languages -- Part two: Nominal morphosyntax -- Two or three things in the Unua noun phrase -- Noun incorporation in Saliba -- Noun-phrase conjunction in Austronesian languages: additive, inclusory and comitative strategies -- Part three: Historical developments -- Neither accusative nor ergative: an alternative analysis of case in Eastern Polynesian -- Grammaticalization of Tahitian mea 'thing, matter' into a stative aspect -- Subject index -- Language index