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Claire Bowern

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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.