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Researcher's projects
See https://sites.google.com/site/malcolmdrosshistoricallinguist/current-research.
Qualifications
Biography
For the last few years my main involvements have been in the Oceanic Lexicon Project (a project of the Department of Linguistics) and in various aspects of Formosan (Taiwan) and Papuan (New Guinea) historical linguistics.
Career highlights
Principal of Goroka Teachers' College (UPNG) (1980-82); Visiting Professor, Dept of Southeast Asian Studies, University of Frankfurt (1993, 1998-99); Guest Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig (2002, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014); Visiting Professor, Academia Sinica, Taipei (2003, 2008–2009), Visiting Professor, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, and National Taiwan University, Taipei (2008–2009), Hermann and Klara H. Collitz Professor at the 2009 Summer Institute of the Linguistic Society of America at the University of California at Berkeley; Visiting Scholar, Laboratoire “Langues et civilisations à tradition orale” (LACITO) UMR 7107 du Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Villejuif, Paris, France.
Research interests
Austronesian and Papuan languages, theory of language change, contact-induced language change, historical change in grammatical constructions.
Expertise Areas
- South-East Asian Languages (excl. Indonesian)
- Pacific Languages
- Comparative Language Studies
- Language in Culture and Society (Sociolinguistics)
- Language in Time and Space (incl. Historical Linguistics, Dialectology)
- Linguistic Structures (incl. Grammar, Phonology, Lexicon, Semantics)
- Pacific History (excl. New Zealand and Maori)
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Projects
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Consolidation and expansion of PARADISEC, Pacific and Regional Archive of Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures
Pawley, A., Bowden, F., Ross, M. & Rumsey, A.
Australian Research Council (ARC)
1/01/05 → 31/12/11
Project: Research
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Narrative historical linguistics: Linguistic evidence for human (pre)history
Ross, M., 2021, The Handbook of Historical Linguistics, vol. 2.. Richard D. Janda, Brian D. Joseph, and Barbara S. Vance (ed.). Hoboken, NJ USA: Wiley-Blackwell, p. 468-499Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Comment on Blust "The Resurrection of Proto-Philippines"
Ross, M., 2020, In: Oceanic Linguistics. 59, 1-2, p. 366-373Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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The linguistic situation in Near Oceania before agriculture
Ross, M., 2020, The language of hunter-gatherers. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, p. 311-336Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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A fragment of Papua New Guinea philology
Ross, M., 2019, In: Journal of the Linguistics Society of Papua New Guinea. 37, p. 42-63Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Syntax and contact-induced language change
Ross, M., 2019, The Oxford Handbook of Language Contact. Anthony P Grant (ed.). 1st ed. United States: Oxford University Press, p. 123-154Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter