Claire Bowern

Claire Bowern is a linguist who works with Australian indigenous languages.[1] She is currently Professor of Linguistics at Yale University.[2]

Claire Bowern
OccupationLinguist
Academic background
Alma materHarvard University
Academic work
InstitutionsYale University
Main interestsAustralian Aboriginal languages, historical linguistics

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
  1. "Claire Bowern - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 8 March 2018.
  2. "Claire Bowern | Department of Anthropology". anthropology.yale.edu. Retrieved 8 March 2018.
  3. "Harvard Linguistics Alumni, 2000s". Retrieved 8 March 2018.
  4. "Claire Bowern – Professor, Yale Linguistics". campuspress.yale.edu. Retrieved 19 November 2017.
  5. Rogers, Chris; Campbell, Lyle (2008). "Review of Linguistic Fieldwork: A Practical Guide". Anthropological Linguistics. 50 (3/4): 393–397. JSTOR 20639012.
  6. "Endangered Language Fund". Archived from the original on 23 January 2015. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
  7. "Claire Bowern elected vice president of the Endangered Language Fund | Linguistics". ling.yale.edu. Retrieved 8 March 2018.


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