Table of Contents

1. The Austronesian languages of Asia and Madagascar: A historical perspective - K. Alexander Adelaar 2. Language shift and endangerment - Margaret Florey 3. Colonial history and language policy in Insular Southeast Asia and Madagascar - Hein Steinhauer 4. Ritual languages, special registers and speech decorum in Austronesian languages - James J. Fox 5. The Austronesian languages of Asia and Madagascar: Typological characteristics - Nikolaus P. Himmelmann 6. Old Malay - Waruno Mahdi 7. Structural Diversity in the Malayic subgroup - K. Alexander Adelaar 8. Colloquial Indonesian - Michael C. Ewing 9. Tsou - Elizabeth Zeitoun 10. Seediq - Naomi Tsukida 11. IIoko - Carl Rubino 12. Tagalog - Nikolaus P. Himmelmann 13. Sama (Bajau) - Jun Akamine 14. Kimaragang - Paul Kroeger 15. Belait - Adrian Clynes 16. Malagasy - Janie Rasoloson & Carl Rubino 17. Phan Rang Cham - Graham Thurgood 18. Moken and Moklen - Michael D. Larish 19. Karo Batak - Geoff Woollams 20. Nias - Lea Brown 21. Javanese - Alexander K. Ogloblin 22. Buol - Erik Zobel 23. Makassar - Anthony Jukes 24. Mori Bawah - David Mead 25. Kambera - Marian Klamer 26. Tetun and Leti - Aone van Engelenhoven & Catharina Williams-van Klinken 27. Taba - John Bowden 28. Biak - Hein Steinhauer

About the Author

Alexander Adelaar is Associate Professor and Reader in Indonesian at the University of Melbourne, Australia. His main publications are on Austronesian historical and descriptive linguistics, especially Malay varieties, Malagasy, languages of West Borneo and Siraya (Taiwan). Nikolaus P. Himmelmann was previously Professor and Chair at the Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat, Germany. He has done fieldwork in the Philippines (Tagalog), Sulawesi (Tomini-Tolitoli languages) and East Timor (Waima'a) and published widely on a number of core issues in Austronesian grammar, including the nature of lexical and syntactic categories and voice.