Malcolm Ross (linguist)

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Malcolm Ross
FAHA
Born
Malcolm David Ross

(1942-05-03) May 3, 1942
London, United Kingdom
OccupationLinguist
Academic background
Alma materAustralian National University
Academic advisorsStephen Wurm, Bert Voorhoeve, Darrell Tryon
Academic work
InstitutionsAustralian National University
Main interestsPapuan languages, Austronesian languages

Malcolm David Ross FAHA (born 3 May 1942) is an Australian linguist. He is emeritus professor of linguistics at the Australian National University (ANU).

Ross is best known among linguists for his work on Austronesian and Papuan languages, historical linguistics, and language contact (especially metatypy). He was elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1996.

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