Mathias Jenny, Ph.D (2005) University of Zurich, is a senior researcher and lecturer at that university. His main fields of interest are language contact and language change in Southeast Asia, with a special focus on the languages of Myanmar/Burma, on which he has conducted fieldwork and widely published over the past twenty years.Paul Sidwell, Ph.D. (1999) University of Melbourne, is an Associate at Sydney University and a partner in the firm Language Intelligence (Canberra). His research focuses on Austroasiatic language history and implications for the language and history of Mainland Southeast Asia.Mark J. Alves, Ph.D. (2000) University of Hawaii, is a Professor at Montgomery College and the Editor-in-Chief of JSEALS. His research has centered on Vietnamese language history, which also encompasses surrounding language groups, including Sinitic/Chinese,Tai, Vietic, and Austroasiatic broadly.

• PrefaceList of Illustrations and TablesNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Austroasiatic Syntax in Diachronic and Areal PerspectivePaul Sidwell, Mathias Jenny and Mark AlvesPart 1 Syntactic Reconstruction1 Verb-Initial Structures in Austroasiatic LanguagesMathias Jenny2 Initial Steps in Reconstructing Proto-Vietic SyntaxMark Alves3 Nicobarese Comparative SyntaxPaul SidwellPart 2 Northern Austroasiatic Word Order4 Verb-Initial Order, Gender, and Diachrony in KhasianHiram Ring5 Word Order in the Wa LanguagesAtsushi YamadaPart 3 Munda6 Proto-Munda Prosody, Morphotactics and Morphosyntax in South Asian and Austroasiatic ContextsGregory Anderson7 The Proto-Munda Predicate and the Austroasiatic Language FamilyFelix Rau8 Proto-Kherwarian Negation, TAM and Person-Indexing InterdependenciesBikram Jora and Gregory Anderson9 Relative Clauses in Santali: A Matching Analysis ApproachMayuri Dilip, Rajesh Kumar, Kārumūri V. Subbārāo, G. Uma Maheshwar Rao and Martin EveraertPart 4 Grammatical Lexicon10 Grammatical Words in Austroasiatic: An Annotated Comparative Vocabulary with ReconstructionsMark Alves, Mathias Jenny and Paul SidwellIndex