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4-465: The unity of Northwest Solomonic and the number and composition of its subgroups, along with its relationship to other Oceanic groups, was established in pioneering work by Malcolm Ross . Northwest Solomonic languages group as follows: In addition, the extinct Kazukuru language was probably one of the New Georgia languages. The unclassified extinct language Tetepare might have also been one of

8-909: Is the emeritus professor of linguistics at the Australian National University . 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. Ross served as the Principal of Goroka Teachers College in Papua New Guinea from 1980 to 1982, during which time he self-statedly become interested in local languages, and began to collect data on them. In 1986, he received his PhD from

12-563: The ANU under the supervision of Stephen Wurm , Bert Voorhoeve and Darrell Tryon . His dissertation was on the genealogy of the Oceanic languages of western Melanesia, and contained an early reconstruction of Proto Oceanic . Malcolm Ross introduced the concept of a linkage , a group of languages that evolves via dialect differentiation rather than by tree-like splits. Together with Andrew Pawley and Meredith Osmond, Ross has contributed to

16-417: The New Georgia languages, if it was Austronesian at all. Basic vocabulary in many Northwest Solomonic languages is aberrant, and many forms do not have Proto-Oceanic cognates. Below, Ririo , Zabana , and Maringe are compared with two Southeast Solomonic languages . Aberrant forms are in bold. Malcolm Ross (linguist) Malcolm David Ross FAHA (born 1942) is an Australian linguist . He

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