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Alexander Adelaar

Dr Alexander Adelaar

  • Post Nominals: FAHA
  • Fellow Type: Fellow
  • Elected to the Academy: 2007
  • Section(s): Linguistics, Asian Studies

Biography

Dr. Alexander Adelaar is a Principal Fellow in the Asia Institute at the University of Melbourne and a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Asian Studies, Palacký University (Olomouc). He is a Fellow of the Academy of Humanities Australia and associated member of the Académie Malgache. His research is on the structure and history of Austronesian languages, with emphasis on varieties of Malay and the languages of Borneo, Madagascar and Taiwan. He is currently engaged in a study of the linguistic and migration history of Madagascar. Dr. Adelaar is the author of Proto-Malayic (Pacific Linguistics, 1992), Salako or Badameà. Sketch grammar, texts and lexicon of a Kanayatn dialect of West Borneo (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2005), and Siraya. Retrieving the phonology, grammar and lexicon of a dormant Formosan language (De Gruyter Mouton, 2011). He is also co-editor of The Austronesian languages of Asia and Madagascar (Routledge, 2005) and of the Guide to the Malayo-Polynesian languages (Oxford University Press 2024).

Acknowledgement of Country

The Australian Academy of the Humanities recognises Australia’s First Nations Peoples as the traditional owners and custodians of this land, and their continuous connection to country, community and culture.