Autor/-in: Russell Barlow

Russell Barlow is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. He has been researching the Ulwa language since 2015. His PhD dissertation at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa provided the first grammatical description of Ulwa. He has subsequently also conducted field research with the four other members of the Keram family: Mwakai, Pondi, Ambakich, and Ap Ma. More recently, he has begun documenting and describing some of the Papuan and Austronesian languages of New Britain. His research includes broad issues in linguistic typology, as well as the historical reconstruction and classification of Papuan languages. He is particularly interested in contact between Papuan and Austronesian languages and the history of settlement of the Pacific.