1. Reflections on Bob Blust's career / Alexander Adelaar and Andre Pawley -- 2. Feting Bob's career to date / Byron W. Bender -- 3. Thoughts on learning that Bob Blust has reached festschrift age / George W. Grace 4. The publications of Robert A. Blust -- 5. Structure-preserving sound change: a look at unstressed vowel syncope in Austronesian / Juliette Blevins -- 6. Irregular sound change and the post-velars in some Malakula languages / John Lynch -- 7. In search of an historical Sea-People Malay dialect with -aba- / Waruno Mahdi -- 8. The sounds of Southeast Babar / Hein Steinhauer -- 9. Motherese and historical implications / Shigeru Tsuchida -- 10. The Proto Austronesian laryngeal / John Wolff -- 11. The various origins of the passive prefix di- / Alexander Adelaar -- 12. Relative-clause bracketing in Oceanic languages around the Huon Gulf of New Guinea / Joel Bradshaw -- 13. The history of the Tukang Besi pronominals / Mark Donohue -- 14. Verbal aspect and personal pronouns: the history of aorist markers in north Vanuatu / Alexandre François -- 15. Austronesian typology and the nominalist hypothesis / Daniel Kaufman -- 16. Start and finish: some grammatical changes in Toqabaqita / Frantisek Lichtenberk -- 17. On the Eastern Polynesian 'direct object' marker i / Yuko Otsuka -- 18. Inclusory constructions and their development in Philippine languages / Lawrence Reid -- 19. Proto Austronesian verbal morphology: a reappraisal / Malcolm Ross -- 20. Possession in South Halmahera -- West New Guinea: typology and reconstruction / Rene van den Berg -- 21. Reassessing the reconstruction of plural affixes in PAn: evidence from the Formosan languages / Elizabeth Zeitoun -- 22. Austronesian language phylogenies: myths and misconceptions about Bayesian computational methods / Simon Greenhill and Russell Gray -- 23. Linguistic differences amoung Siraya, Taivuan and Makatau / Paul Jen-Kuei Li -- 24. Out-of-Borneo subgrouping hypothesis for Rejang: re-weighing the evidence / Richard McGinn -- 25. The position of Makuva among the Austronesian languages in East Timor and Southwest Maluku / Aone van Engelenhoven -- 26. Words of Eastern Polynesia: is there lexical evidence for the origins of the East Polynesians? / Paul Geraghty -- 27. Some clan names of the Chuukic-speaking peoples of Micronesia / Jeff Marck -- 28. Kinship terms in Bungku-Toaki languages: inheritance, innovation and borrowing / David Mead -- 29. Cat's cradle: a disappointing field for lexical reconstruction / Meredith Osmond -- 30. The role of the Solomon Islands in the first settlement of Remote Oceania: bringing linguistic evidence to an archaeological debate / Andrew Pawley.