Claire Bowern

Claire Bowern is a linguist who works with Australian indigenous languages.

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.[1] She is currently an associate professor at Yale University, and also serves as the vice president of the Endangered Language Fund.[2]

Key publications

(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.

(2004) Bowern, Claire and Harold Koch (eds). Australian Languages: Classification and the Comparative Method. Benjamins.

References

  1. ↑ "Claire Bowern (CV)".
  2. ↑ "Endangered Language Fund". Retrieved January 22, 2015.

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