John Frederick Bowden (born 1958 in Australia[1]) is a linguist who specializes in Austronesian and Papuan linguistics. His main research interests are the languages of eastern Indonesia and Timor-Leste.[2]
John Bowden | |
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| Born | John Frederick Bowden 1958 (age 65–66) Australia |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Occupation | Linguist |
| Academic work | |
| Main interests | Austronesian and Papuan linguistics |
Education
editBowden obtained his bachelor's and master's degrees in linguistics at the University of Auckland. In 1992, he completed his doctoral studies at the University of Melbourne, where he wrote a grammatical description of the Taba language for his dissertation.[2]
Career
editTogether with researchers from the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (Lembaga Ilmu Pengetahuan Indonesia), he documented the Gamkonora language, a Papuan language of Halmahera. He has done research on non-standard Malay lingua francas such as North Moluccan Malay and the dialect of Jakarta. Also, Bowden has extensively studied South Halmahera languages, especially on linguistic typology, language contact, and grammar.[3]
He was a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. For about 10 years, he was a researcher at the Australian National University. He was also employed as a local director of the Jakarta Field Station of the Linguistics Department of the Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology.[3]
Selected works
editSelected works by John Bowden:[3]
- Behind the Preposition: The Grammaticalization of Locatives in Oceanic Languages (1992)
- Taba: Description of a South Halmahera Language (2001)
- A Journey through Austronesian and Papuan Cultural and Linguistic Space (2010)
References
edit- ^ "55251925". viaf.org. Retrieved 15 January 2020.
- ^ a b "Introducing New Staff 42 :: ILCAA". www.aa.tufs.ac.jp. Retrieved 13 January 2020.
- ^ a b c Setiono Sugiharto (21 November 2012). "Frederick John Bowden: A passionate linguistic typologist". The Jakarta Post. Retrieved 13 January 2020.