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Name:	Malcolm  D. Ross
Institution:	Australian National University
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Homepage:	http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/people/personal/rossm_ling.php
State and/or Country:	Australia
Linguistic Field(s):	Historical Linguistics
Specialty:	Austronesian; /L//L/Papuan; /L//L/Language Contact
Language Family(ies):	Austronesian
Selected Publications:	Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian languages of western Melanesia, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, 1988. Durie, Mark and Malcolm D. Ross, ed. The comparative method reviewed: irregularity and regularity in linguistic change. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. (with Andrew Pawley and Meredith Osmond) The lexicon of Proto Oceanic vol 1: Material culture; vol 2: The physical environment; vol 3: Plants . Canberra: Pacific Linguistics 1998, 2003, 2008. 2005 Pronouns as a preliminary diagnostic for grouping Papuan languages. In: Andrew Pawley, Robert Attenborough, Robin Hide and Jack Golson, eds, Papuan pasts: cultural, linguistic and biological histories of Papuan-speaking peoples, 15–65. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. 2006 Formosan languages. In Keith Brown, ed., Encyclopedia of language and linguistics. 2nd edition, 4:587–590. Oxford: Elsevier. 2006 Language families and linguistic diversity. In Keith Brown, ed., Encyclopedia of language and linguistics. 2nd edition, 6:499–508. Oxford: Elsevier. 2006 Malayo-Polynesian languages. In Keith Brown, ed., Encyclopedia of language and linguistics. 2nd edition, 7:457–462. Oxford: Elsevier. 2006 Metatypy. In Keith Brown, ed., Encyclopedia of language and linguistics.2nd edition, 8: 95–99. Oxford: Elsevier. 2007 Calquing and metatypy. Journal of Language Contact, Thema 1:116–143. http://www.jlc-journal.org/ 2007 Two kinds of locative construction in Oceanic languages: a robust distinction. In Jeff Siegel, John Lynch and Diane Eades, eds, Language Description, History and Development: Linguistic Indulgence in Memory of Terry Crowley, 281–295. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 2009 Proto Austronesian verbal morphology: A reappraisal. In Alexander Adelaar and Andrew Pawley (eds), Austronesian historical linguistics and culture history: a festschrift for Robert Blust. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
Announced on LINGUIST :	Studies in Languages of New Britain and New Ireland. Volume 1: Austronesian languages of the North New Guinea cluster in Northwestern New Britain  The Lexicon of Proto Oceanic: The Culture and Environment of Ancestral Oceanic Society  Austronesian Terminologies: Continuity and Change  The Language Game: Papers in Memory of Donald C. Laycock.  The history and typology of western Austronesian voice systems  The boy from Bundaburg: Studies in Melanesian linguistics in honour of Tom Dutton  The lexicon of Proto Oceanic: The culture and environment of ancestral Oceanic society  The Many Faces of Austronesian Voice Systems  The Lexicon of Proto Oceanic: The Culture and Environment of Ancestral Oceanic Society 3  A Journey Through Austronesian and Papuan Linguistic and Cultural Space  The Lexicon of Proto Oceanic
Dissertation Director * of:	Reconstructing Linguistic History in a Dialect Continuum: The Kamta, Rajbanshi, and Northern Deshi Bangla subgroup of Indo-Aryan (Matthew Toulmin, Author)
Dissertation Director * of:	The Tukang Besi Language (Mark Donohue, Author)
Reviewer of:	Syntax: Pintzuk, Tsoulas & Warner, eds. (2000) (LL Issue 12.1886) Lang Description/Papuan Lang: Holton (2003) (LL Issue 17.292) Language and Text in the Austronesian World (LL Issue 20.1943) The Continuum Companion to Historical Linguistics (LL Issue 22.3338)
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