Claire Bowern
Claire Bowern | |
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| Occupation | Linguist |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Yale University |
| Main interests | Australian Aboriginal languages, historical linguistics |
Claire Bowern is a linguist who works with Australian Indigenous languages.[1] She is currently Professor of Linguistics at Yale University.[2]
Biography[]
Bowern received her PhD from Harvard University in 2004 for her research on the historical morphology of complex verb constructions in non-Pama-Nyungan languages.[3] In 2007, the NSF/NEH awarded her a grant to study Bardi texts from the 1920s.[4]
She is the author of a well-respected and widely used linguistics field methods textbook (Bowern 2008).[5]
Since 2015 she has served as the vice president of the Endangered Language Fund.[6][7]
Key publications[]
- (2014) Bowern, Claire and Bethwyn Evans (eds). Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics. Basingstoke: Routledge.
- (2012) Bowern, Claire. A Grammar of Bardi. Mouton de Gruyter.
- (2011) Bowern, Claire. Sivisa Titan: Sketch Grammar, Texts, Vocabulary Based on Material Collected by P. Josef Meier and Po Minis. University of Hawaii Press.
- (2010) Bowern, Claire and Terry Crowley. An Introduction to Historical Linguistics. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press. Fourth edition.
- (2008) Bowern, Claire. Linguistic Fieldwork: A practical guide. Palgrave. (Online Materials) (2nd Edition 2015)
- (2004) Bowern, Claire and Harold Koch (eds). Australian Languages: Classification and the Comparative Method. Benjamins
References[]
- ^ "Claire Bowern - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 8 March 2018.
- ^ "Claire Bowern | Department of Anthropology". anthropology.yale.edu. Retrieved 8 March 2018.
- ^ "Harvard Linguistics Alumni, 2000s". Retrieved 8 March 2018.
- ^ "Claire Bowern – Professor, Yale Linguistics". campuspress.yale.edu. Retrieved 19 November 2017.
- ^ Rogers, Chris; Campbell, Lyle (2008). "Review of Linguistic Fieldwork: A Practical Guide". Anthropological Linguistics. 50 (3/4): 393–397. JSTOR 20639012.
- ^ "Endangered Language Fund". Archived from the original on 23 January 2015. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
- ^ "Claire Bowern elected vice president of the Endangered Language Fund | Linguistics". ling.yale.edu. Retrieved 8 March 2018.
External links[]
- Yale faculty profile
- The Conversation profile
- Academia.edu profile
- LSA Member spotlight
- CHIRILA: A database of the languages of Australia (Contemporary and Historical Reconstruction in the Indigenous Languages of Australia)
- CHIRILA, Yale Pama-Nyungan Lab
- Claire Bowern publications indexed by Google Scholar
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