Malcolm D. Ross
List of John Benjamins publications in which Malcolm D. Ross is involved.
Journal
ISSN 1810-7478 | E‑ISSN 2589‑5230
2015 The argument indexing of early Austronesian verbs: A reconstructional myth? Historical Linguistics 2013: Selected papers from the 21st International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Oslo, 5-9 August 2013, Haug, Dag T.T. (ed.), pp. 257–280 | Article
This paper re-examines the Proto Austronesian (PAn) split-clitic construction, which has had a considerable influence on the reconstruction of Austronesian morphosyntactic history, suggests that it is a myth, and proposes alternative reconstructions, on the basis of data from Austronesian languages… read more
2014 Reconstructing the history of languages in northwest New Britain: Inheritance and contact Journal of Historical Linguistics 4:1, pp. 84–132 | Article
William Thurston (1982, 1987, 1989, 1992, 1994) analyzes the history of the languages of the northwest area of New Britain. This history has included much contact among the area’s languages, all of which are Oceanic Austronesian with the exception of the Papuan language Anêm. Thurston, however,… read more
2007 21. Two kinds of locative construction in Oceanic languages: A robust distinction Language Description, History and Development: Linguistic indulgence in memory of Terry Crowley, Siegel, Jeff, John Lynch and Diana Eades (eds.), pp. 281–295 | Article
1991 Refining Guy's Sociolinguistic Types of Language Change Diachronica 8:1, pp. 119–129 | Miscellaneous