Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of contents V
3. Introduction 1
4. Part one: Sentential syntax and sentence types
5. Deriving linear order in OV/VO languages: evidence from Oceanic languages 27
6. Questions and answers in Niuean 65
7. Questions and word order in Polynesian 107
8. Nominalization and exclamation in Oceanic languages 135
9. Part two: Nominal morphosyntax
10. Two or three things in the Unua noun phrase 163
11. Noun incorporation in Saliba 203
12. Noun-phrase conjunction in Austronesian languages: additive, inclusory and comitative strategies 235
13. Part three: Historical developments
14. Neither accusative nor ergative: an alternative analysis of case in Eastern Polynesian 289
15. Grammaticalization of Tahitian mea ‘thing, matter’ into a stative aspect 319
16. Subject index 341
17. Language index 343