Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Maps -- Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Notes -- 1 Maori literature and literature on Maori -- Literature on Maori -- Literature in Maori -- Notes -- 2 Abrief history of Maori -- The Austronesian family and subgroups -- The linguistic developments -- Sound changes -- Metatheses -- Consonant deletion -- Recent phonological and phonetic change -- Grammatical developments -- Maori and PPN ergativity/accusativity -- Grammatical innovations in Maori -- The Maori vocabulary -- Notes -- 3 Regional variation in Maori -- The nature of regional variation in Maori -- Phonological differences -- Grammatical variation -- Lexical variation -- The implication of regional variation in Maori -- South Island Maori -- Moriori -- Notes -- 4 The phonology of Maori -- Phoneme inventory -- Vowel length -- Distribution of phonemes -- Diphthongs -- Phonotactics -- Syllables and moræ -- The phonetics of Maori -- Consonants -- Vowels -- Stress -- The Maori writing system -- The development of written Maori -- Notes -- 5 The morphology of Maori -- Parts of speech -- Particles vs bases -- Verbs -- Nouns -- Pronouns -- Word shape -- Inflection -- Number -- Passive -- Derivation -- Nominalisation -- Prefixes -- Reduplication -- Compounds -- Notes -- 6 The syntax of Maori -- The phrase -- Tense/aspect markers -- Determiners -- Demonstratives -- Possessive determiners -- Prepositions -- Postposed particles -- The nucleus -- Sentence structure -- Predicates -- Existential sentences -- Subjects -- Other sentence constituents -- Coordination -- Negation -- Possession -- Attributive possession -- Predicative possessives -- Transforms of basic sentences -- Passive -- Focus and topic constructions -- Complex sentences -- Adverbial clauses -- Complement clauses.

Relativisation -- Maori relativisation and the Noun Phrase Accessibility Hierarchy -- Notes -- 7 The sociolinguistic situation of Maori -- Language shift -- Demography -- Domains -- Reversing language shift -- Maori as an official language -- Maori in education -- Maori as a subject of tuition -- Maori as language of tuition -- Maori in the media -- Attitudes -- Language planning -- Status planning -- Corpus planning -- Vocabulary expansion -- Language materials -- Language death? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index.