The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 2009. — 511 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 605).
Historical relationships amongst languagesRemapping the Austronesian expansion - Roger Blench
The historical value of single words - Robert Blust
Beyond pronouns: further evidence for South Bougainville - Bethwyn Evans
The languages of Vanikoro: three lexicons and one grammar - Alexandre Francois
Expanding character sets for phylogeny: a Slavic test case - Johanna Nichols
Greenberg’s Indo-Pacific hypothesis: an assessment - Andrew Pawley
A connection between Bird’s Head and (Proto) Oceanic - Ger Reesink
How many branches in a tree? Cua and East (North) Bahnaric - Paul Sidwell
Binanderean as a member of the Trans New Guinea family - Jacinta Smallhorn
The Papuan languages of the Eastern Bismarcks: migration, origins and connections - Tonya N. Stebbins
Historical development of languages across timeOn the zero (voice) prefix and bare verbs in Austronesian languages of Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia - I Wayan Arka
Dental discrepancies and the sound of Proto Austronesian - Mark Donohue
Deictic to relativiser in Oceanic - Robert Early
Nasal strengthening in the Fijian languages - Paul Geraghty
On reconstructing pronominal proto-paradigms: methodological considerations from the Pama-Nyungan language family of Australia - Harold Koch
Yet more Proto Austronesian infixes - Paul Jen-kuei LI and Shigeru Tsuchida
Proprietives in Oceanic - Frantisek Lichtenberk
At sixes and sevens: the development of numeral systems in Vanuatu and New Caledonia - John Lynch
Spread of the Saliba-Logea plural marker - Anna Margetts
Verbs of perception in Proto Oceanic - Meredith Osmond and Andrew Pawley
The reconstruction of a dual pronoun to Proto Malayo-Polynesian - Lawrence A. Reid
From ki-N ‘get N’ in Formosan languages to ki-V ‘get V-ed’ (passive) In Rukai, Paiwan and Puyuma - Elizabeth Zeitoun and Stacy F. Teng