Claire Bowern

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Claire Bowern is Professor of Linguistics at Yale University. Her 2004 PhD is from Harvard University and examined the historical morphology of complex verb constructions in a family of non-Pama-Nyungan (Australian) languages. Her research focuses on the Indigenous languages of Australia, and is concerned with language documentation/description and prehistory. This includes fieldwork in Northern Australia with speakers of endangered languages, as well as archival work, shedding light on the linguistic history of Pama-Nyungan. With colleagues in linguistics, anthropology, and evolutionary biology, she is currently comparing features of hunter-gatherer languages in different areas of the world.

Experience

  • 2017–present
    Professor, Yale University
  • 2010–2017
    Associate professor, Yale University
  • 2008–2010
    Assistant Professor, Yale University

Education

  • 2018 
    Yale University, MA
  • 2004 
    Harvard University, PhD
  • 1998 
    ANU, BA (Hons)

Professional Memberships

  • Linguistic Society of America
  • Australian Linguistic Society

Research Areas

  • Linguistics (2004)
  • Language In Time And Space (Incl. Historical Linguistics, Dialectology) (200406)
  • Linguistic Structures (Incl. Grammar, Phonology, Lexicon, Semantics) (200408)

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