Malcolm Ross | |
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| Born | Malcolm David Ross 3 May 1942 London, United Kingdom |
| Nationality | Australian and British |
| Occupation | Linguist |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Australian National University |
| Main interests | Papuan languages, Austronesian languages |
Malcolm David Ross FAHA (born 1942) is an Australian linguist. He 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.[1]