M Ro
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 22413 |
|---|---|
| NOME | M Ro |
| PRENOMES | M |
| SOBRENOME | Ro |
| ASSINATURA | RO M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1601-6739 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 29 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 40 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1989 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2014 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Research priorities in historical-comparative linguistics
International audience
Affixes in Language Change
Diagnosing Contact Processes from their Outcomes
This paper addresses the questions, Do bilingually induced and shift-induced change have different outcomes? If they do, can these differences assist us in reconstructing the prehistoric past, specifically the linguistic prehistory of the (smallscale neolithic) societies of Melanesia. A key to better interpreting differences in the outputs of contact-induced change is to understand how such change in smallscale societies actually occurs. I argue …
Kaulong
Sequencing and dating linguistic events in Oceania
Using language to date the origin and spread of food production, Archaeology and Language II represents groundbreaking work in synthesizing two disciplines that are now seen as interlinked: linguistics and archaeology. This volume is the second part of a three-part survey of innovative results emerging from their combination. Archaeology and historical linguistics have largely pursued separate tracks until recently, although their goals can be ve…
A History of Metatypy in the Bel Languages
In earlier work Takia, an Oceanic Austronesian language, has been compared with its Papuan neighbour Waskia to show that much of the grammar of Takia can be explained as the outcome of metatypy on the model of Waskia or a language typologically like it. Takia belongs to the Western subgroup of the small Bel family, the members of which have all undergone metatypy to some degree. In this paper data from the Bel languages are used to reconstruct th…
Calquing and Metatypy
Metatypy, meaning 'change in type' is a diachronic process in which the syntactic system of one of a bilingual community's languages is restructured so that it more closely resembles the syntax of its speakers' other language. It is thus a language contact phenomenon. In this paper I deconstruct my earlier account of metatypy and show that metatypy is preceded chronologically by lexical and grammatical calquing but is separate from these processe…
The Prehistory of Oceanic Languages
The paper sketches the linguistic comparative method and reports on current results of its application to the Oceanic group of Austronesian languages. We give a brief account of the culture of Proto-Oceanic speakers as it is revealed by language, then outline our present view of Oceanic subgrouping, explaining what this implies about the location of Proto-Oceanic and the dispersion of Oceanic speakers into the Pacific. We examine patterns discern…
Typology and Language Families
Malcolm Ross, Typology and Language Families: A Comment on Klamer's "Typical Features of Austronesian Languages in Central/Eastern Indonesia", Oceanic Linguistics, Vol. 42, No. 2 (Dec., 2003), pp. 506-510
Motives for Language Change
This specially commissioned volume considers the processes involved in language change and the issues of how they can be modelled and studied. The way languages change offers an insight into the nature of language itself, its internal organisation, and how it is acquired and used. Accordingly, the phenomenon of language change has been approached from a variety of perspectives by linguists of many different orientations. This book, originally pub…
The History of Proto-Oceanic *ma
The History of Proto-Oceanic *ma- Bethwyn Evans and Malcolm Ross1 Abstract We examine the history of the Proto-Oceanic (POC) stative verb derivative *ma-, whose distribution in POC reconstructions raises certain problems, as POC lexical reconstructions with *ma- can be placed in four groups: (a) valency-decreasing *ma-; (b) fossilized reflexes of *ma- on stative verbs; (c) stative (adjectival) verbs that can be reconstructed in POC both with and …
Selected Papers from the Eighth International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics
The Lexicon of Proto Oceanic
The Nalik Language of New Ireland, Papua New Guinea
Most of the languages of Papua New Guinea are still poorly documented. This first grammar of Nalik provides one of the most accessible and detailed descriptions of a New Ireland language, even while English and Tok Pisin are becoming increasingly dominant among the four thousand Nalik speakers. Rejecting the idea of an artificial standard form of the language, this volume is unusual in its description of the grammatical variation caused by such a…
Proto-Oceanic Adjectival Categories and Their Morphosyntax
Americanae nace como un proyecto conjunto que surge dentro de la Red Europea de Información y Documentación sobre América Latina (REDIAL), y que ha afrontado la Biblioteca de la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID). Esta nueva biblioteca virtual hace más accesibles los libros digitales de tema americanista a los investigadores y usuarios interesados de cualquier parte del mundo.
Possessive-like Attribute Constructions in the Oceanic Languages of Northwest Melanesia
In many Oceanic languages in northwest Melanesia the default attribute construction ('a big house') is one whose morphosyntax looks like that of a possession construction: the attribute occupies the (possessed) head slot, the noun the (possessor) modifier slot ('a big one of a house'), that is, the opposite of the cross-linguistic norm and a rare phenomenon worldwide. I briefly describe these constructions, which are morphosyntactically varied, t…
On the Genetic Affiliations of the Oceanic Languages of Irian Jaya
For 25 years it has been known that the Austronesian languages of the Sarmi and Jayapura groups in Irian Jaya belong to the Oceanic subgroup. It has also been suggested recently that they form a single low-order subgroup within Oceanic. It has not been clear, however, whether they form a first-order subgroup or belong to an already established grouping within Oceanic. Although the available data corpus for Sarmi and Jayapura languages is limited,…
On the Origin of the Term "Malayo-Polynesian"
Proto-Oceanic Terms for Meteorological Phenomena
L'A. presente et discute une methodologie permettant la reconstruction de la terminologie proto-oceanique relative au temps et a la meteorologie. Il propose auparavant un bref compte-rendu du systeme des vents du Pacifique et de l'histoire du vocabulaire developpe par les locuteurs austronesiens par rapport a leur experience du temps
Comparative Austronesian dictionary
Papers in Austronesian Linguistics No. 2
Areal phonological features in north central New Ireland
Peer-reviewed
The Sound of Proto-Austronesian
This paper is a report of my efforts to find out what Proto-Austronesian (PAn) might have sounded like, both in terms of its phoneme system and its stress patterns. This may seem a somewhat fanciful venture, but I believe that the phonology of a protolanguage must be reconstructed as the phonology of a real language if we are to properly tackle the task of subgrouping its descendants. This is especially true of a protolanguage which, like PAn, si…
Soil Management for Sustainability
Proto-Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia
The main objective of this work is to elucidate the higher-order genetic relationships of the Austronesian languages of western Melanesia within the framework of Dempwolff's 'Oceanic hypothesis". The west Melanesian Oceanic languages investigated here consist of all the Austronesian languages of Papua New Guinea and of the Solomon Islands as far east as Santa Ysabel. Chapter 1 deals with matters of presentation and then offers a model of language…
Comparative Austronesian dictionary
Calquing and Metatypy
Metatypy, meaning 'change in type' is a diachronic process in which the syntactic system of one of a bilingual community's languages is restructured so that it more closely resembles the syntax of its speakers' other language. It is thus a language contact phenomenon. In this paper I deconstruct my earlier account of metatypy and show that metatypy is preceded chronologically by lexical and grammatical calquing but is separate from these processe…
Soil Management for Sustainability
Early oceanic linguistic prehistory
languages of Oceania are descended from a single proto language, known as Proto Oceanic (POC).1 A number of prehistorians associate POC and its early daughter languages with the Lapita cultural complex.2 But no agreement has been reached on whether the early Austronesian speakers moved fairly rapidly from island southeast Asia through Melanesia into the further reaches of the Pacific or whether they lingered for an extended period in a 'homeland'…
Diagnosing Contact Processes from their Outcomes
This paper addresses the questions, Do bilingually induced and shift-induced change have different outcomes? If they do, can these differences assist us in reconstructing the prehistoric past, specifically the linguistic prehistory of the (smallscale neolithic) societies of Melanesia. A key to better interpreting differences in the outputs of contact-induced change is to understand how such change in smallscale societies actually occurs. I argue …
A History of Metatypy in the Bel Languages
In earlier work Takia, an Oceanic Austronesian language, has been compared with its Papuan neighbour Waskia to show that much of the grammar of Takia can be explained as the outcome of metatypy on the model of Waskia or a language typologically like it. Takia belongs to the Western subgroup of the small Bel family, the members of which have all undergone metatypy to some degree. In this paper data from the Bel languages are used to reconstruct th…
Soil Hydrology, Nutrient and Erosional Response to the Clearance of Terra Firme Forest, Maraca Island, Roraima, Northern Brazil
tension and water fluxes, overland flow, the production of water and sediment yield, and the losses of nutrients in eroded soil materials from the plots. This paper describes the background to the investigation and indicates and discusses the main results. Surface runoff is dominated by treatment with complete clearance yielding fivefold that on partially and uncleared sites. Subsurface fluxes reflect topography, which controls variable source ar…
Early oceanic linguistic prehistory
languages of Oceania are descended from a single proto language, known as Proto Oceanic (POC).1 A number of prehistorians associate POC and its early daughter languages with the Lapita cultural complex.2 But no agreement has been reached on whether the early Austronesian speakers moved fairly rapidly from island southeast Asia through Melanesia into the further reaches of the Pacific or whether they lingered for an extended period in a 'homeland'…
Soil Hydrology, Nutrient and Erosional Response to the Clearance of Terra Firme Forest, Maraca Island, Roraima, Northern Brazil
tension and water fluxes, overland flow, the production of water and sediment yield, and the losses of nutrients in eroded soil materials from the plots. This paper describes the background to the investigation and indicates and discusses the main results. Surface runoff is dominated by treatment with complete clearance yielding fivefold that on partially and uncleared sites. Subsurface fluxes reflect topography, which controls variable source ar…
Proto-Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia
The main objective of this work is to elucidate the higher-order genetic relationships of the Austronesian languages of western Melanesia within the framework of Dempwolff's 'Oceanic hypothesis". The west Melanesian Oceanic languages investigated here consist of all the Austronesian languages of Papua New Guinea and of the Solomon Islands as far east as Santa Ysabel. Chapter 1 deals with matters of presentation and then offers a model of language…
Refining Guy's Sociolinguistic Types of Language Change
Peer-reviewed
Soils of the British Isles
The Sound of Proto-Austronesian
This paper is a report of my efforts to find out what Proto-Austronesian (PAn) might have sounded like, both in terms of its phoneme system and its stress patterns. This may seem a somewhat fanciful venture, but I believe that the phonology of a protolanguage must be reconstructed as the phonology of a real language if we are to properly tackle the task of subgrouping its descendants. This is especially true of a protolanguage which, like PAn, si…
Soil Management for Sustainability
Papers in Austronesian Linguistics No. 2
Areal phonological features in north central New Ireland
Peer-reviewed
Proto-Oceanic Terms for Meteorological Phenomena
L'A. presente et discute une methodologie permettant la reconstruction de la terminologie proto-oceanique relative au temps et a la meteorologie. Il propose auparavant un bref compte-rendu du systeme des vents du Pacifique et de l'histoire du vocabulaire developpe par les locuteurs austronesiens par rapport a leur experience du temps
Comparative Austronesian dictionary
On the Genetic Affiliations of the Oceanic Languages of Irian Jaya
For 25 years it has been known that the Austronesian languages of the Sarmi and Jayapura groups in Irian Jaya belong to the Oceanic subgroup. It has also been suggested recently that they form a single low-order subgroup within Oceanic. It has not been clear, however, whether they form a first-order subgroup or belong to an already established grouping within Oceanic. Although the available data corpus for Sarmi and Jayapura languages is limited,…
On the Origin of the Term "Malayo-Polynesian"
The Nalik Language of New Ireland, Papua New Guinea
Most of the languages of Papua New Guinea are still poorly documented. This first grammar of Nalik provides one of the most accessible and detailed descriptions of a New Ireland language, even while English and Tok Pisin are becoming increasingly dominant among the four thousand Nalik speakers. Rejecting the idea of an artificial standard form of the language, this volume is unusual in its description of the grammatical variation caused by such a…
Proto-Oceanic Adjectival Categories and Their Morphosyntax
Americanae nace como un proyecto conjunto que surge dentro de la Red Europea de Información y Documentación sobre América Latina (REDIAL), y que ha afrontado la Biblioteca de la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID). Esta nueva biblioteca virtual hace más accesibles los libros digitales de tema americanista a los investigadores y usuarios interesados de cualquier parte del mundo.
Possessive-like Attribute Constructions in the Oceanic Languages of Northwest Melanesia
In many Oceanic languages in northwest Melanesia the default attribute construction ('a big house') is one whose morphosyntax looks like that of a possession construction: the attribute occupies the (possessed) head slot, the noun the (possessor) modifier slot ('a big one of a house'), that is, the opposite of the cross-linguistic norm and a rare phenomenon worldwide. I briefly describe these constructions, which are morphosyntactically varied, t…
Selected Papers from the Eighth International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics
The Lexicon of Proto Oceanic
The History of Proto-Oceanic *ma
The History of Proto-Oceanic *ma- Bethwyn Evans and Malcolm Ross1 Abstract We examine the history of the Proto-Oceanic (POC) stative verb derivative *ma-, whose distribution in POC reconstructions raises certain problems, as POC lexical reconstructions with *ma- can be placed in four groups: (a) valency-decreasing *ma-; (b) fossilized reflexes of *ma- on stative verbs; (c) stative (adjectival) verbs that can be reconstructed in POC both with and …
Typology and Language Families
Malcolm Ross, Typology and Language Families: A Comment on Klamer's "Typical Features of Austronesian Languages in Central/Eastern Indonesia", Oceanic Linguistics, Vol. 42, No. 2 (Dec., 2003), pp. 506-510
Motives for Language Change
This specially commissioned volume considers the processes involved in language change and the issues of how they can be modelled and studied. The way languages change offers an insight into the nature of language itself, its internal organisation, and how it is acquired and used. Accordingly, the phenomenon of language change has been approached from a variety of perspectives by linguists of many different orientations. This book, originally pub…
The Prehistory of Oceanic Languages
The paper sketches the linguistic comparative method and reports on current results of its application to the Oceanic group of Austronesian languages. We give a brief account of the culture of Proto-Oceanic speakers as it is revealed by language, then outline our present view of Oceanic subgrouping, explaining what this implies about the location of Proto-Oceanic and the dispersion of Oceanic speakers into the Pacific. We examine patterns discern…
Calquing and Metatypy
Metatypy, meaning 'change in type' is a diachronic process in which the syntactic system of one of a bilingual community's languages is restructured so that it more closely resembles the syntax of its speakers' other language. It is thus a language contact phenomenon. In this paper I deconstruct my earlier account of metatypy and show that metatypy is preceded chronologically by lexical and grammatical calquing but is separate from these processe…
A History of Metatypy in the Bel Languages
In earlier work Takia, an Oceanic Austronesian language, has been compared with its Papuan neighbour Waskia to show that much of the grammar of Takia can be explained as the outcome of metatypy on the model of Waskia or a language typologically like it. Takia belongs to the Western subgroup of the small Bel family, the members of which have all undergone metatypy to some degree. In this paper data from the Bel languages are used to reconstruct th…
Sequencing and dating linguistic events in Oceania
Using language to date the origin and spread of food production, Archaeology and Language II represents groundbreaking work in synthesizing two disciplines that are now seen as interlinked: linguistics and archaeology. This volume is the second part of a three-part survey of innovative results emerging from their combination. Archaeology and historical linguistics have largely pursued separate tracks until recently, although their goals can be ve…
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