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The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1986. — 414 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series C 93).A focal approach to problems of verbal syntax in Fijian - G.B. Milner
Focus in Malagasy and Proto-Austronesian - Otto Chr. Dahl
On the pragmatics of focus - Paz Buenaventura Naylor
Some consequences of causative clause union in Tagalog - Videa P. De Guzman
Focus as recentralisation - Stanley Starosta
Word order change in Malay - Susanna Cumming
The aspectual particle nunga in Toba Batak - Susan Mordechay
Transitivity in Proto-Malayo-Polynesian and Proto-Austronesian - Fay Wouk
The presence and absence of meN- : the Indonesian transitive verbs - Bambang Kaswanti Purwo
Number in Biak: counterevidence to two alleged language universals (a summary) - Hein Steinhauer
On the semantics of reduplication - Paz Buenaventura Naylor
Palauan as a VOS language - Carol Georgopoulos
Surface order in the Standard Fijian verb phrase - David G. Arms
Classification of Niuean verbs: notes on case - Juliette Levin and Diane Massam
Word order in Tuvaluan - Niko Besnier
Discourse constraints on word-order variation in Samoic-Outlier languages - Robin Hooper
The actor emphatic construction of the Eastern Polynesian languages - Ray Harlow
Intelligibility patterns in Sabah and the problem of prediction - Paul R. Kroeger
Some historical linguistic contributions to sociolinguistics - R. David Zorc
A computational approach to stress patterns in Penrhyn - Ayako Yasuda-Graefe and Volker Graefe
Resources for Austronesian linguistic research in the National Library of Australia, Canberra - Geraldine Triffitt