Publications
JOURNAL ARTICLES
2024
Theoretical Linguistics 50(3-4): 265-277.
2023
Evidence and Models of Linguistic Relations: Subgroups, Linkages, Lexical Innovations, and Borneo.
Oceanic Linguistics 62(2): 324-365.
Constraint reranking in diachronic OT: binary-feet and word-minimum phenomena in Austronesian.
Journal of East Asian Linguistics 32: 341-372.
Some Remarks on Sagart’s New Evidence for a Numeral-Based Phylogeny of Austronesian.
Oceanic Linguistics 62(1): 143-167.
(with Carly J. Sommerlot). The Position of Mali, Beaye, and Ba’aje in Land Dayak (Austronesian) and What It Means for Proto-Land-Dayak Vowel Reconstruction.
Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society 16(2): 1-9.
2022
Diachronica (online-first).
(with Taraka Rama). Environmental factors affect the evolution of linguistic subgroups in Borneo.
Diachronica (online-first).
2021
The historical phonology of Hliboi, a Bidayuh language of Borneo.
Oceanic Linguistics 60(1): 133-159.
2020
Nasalization in Enggano Historical Phonology.
Oceanic Linguistics 59.
2019
A reconstruction of Proto-Segai-Modang.
Oceanic Linguistics 58(2): 353-385.
A second look at Proto-Land Dayak vowels.
Oceanic Linguistics 58(1): 110-142.
2018
The Barito Linkage Hypothesis with a note on the position of Basap.
Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society 11(1): 13–34.
The subgrouping of the languages of Borneo: an overview.
Borneo Research Bulletin 48: 330–361.
2017
The Western Malayo-Polynesian problem.
Oceanic Linguistics 56(2): 435–489.
Merap historical phonology in the context of a central Bornean linguistic area.
Oceanic Linguistics 56(1): 143–180.
2015
On the classification of Kenyah and Kayanic languages.
Oceanic Linguistics 54(2): 333–357.
Penan, Sebop, and Kenyah internal linguistic classification.
Borneo Research Bulletin 46: 172–193.
BOOK CHAPTERS
2017
Reconstructing Proto-Kenyah pronouns and the development of a true five number system.
In Issues in Austronesian historical linguistics, ed. by Hsiu-chuan Liao, 48–66. JSEALS 10(3), Special Publication no. 1. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press.
BOOKS
2014
(with Robert Blust) A bibliography of the languages of Borneo (and Madagascar
Phillips, Maine: Borneo Research Council.
DISSERTATION
2017
The languages of Borneo: a comprehensive classification.
Department of Linguistics, University of Hawai‘i. Robert Blust, Chair.