Claire Bowern


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

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. In 2007, the NSF/NEH awarded her a grant to study Bardi texts from the 1920s.
She is the author of a well-respected and widely used linguistics field methods textbook.
Since 2015 she has served as the vice president of the Endangered Language Fund.

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