John Bowden, MA, Hons (Auckland), PhD (Melbourne)
Fellow, Department of Linguistics, Division of Society and Environment

Email: john.bowden@anu.edu.au

Biographical Statement

Research Interests

Languages of eastern Indonesia and East Timor; language description and language documentation; language contact; Austronesian and Papuan linguistics; language typology; linguistic representation of space

Key Publications

• 2002. 'Taba and Malay: a type of incipient language death or the incipient death of a language type?' In David Bradley and Maya Bradley, eds. Language endangerment and language revival: an active approach, 114-143. London: Curzon Press.
• 2001. Taba: description of a South Halmahera language. Canberra:Pacific Linguistics.
• 1997. 'The meanings of directionals in Taba', In Gunter Senft, ed. Referring to space: studies in Austronesian and Papuan languages, 251-268. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
• 1992. Behind the preposition: grammaticalisation of locatives in Oceanic languages. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.

Career Highlights

Postdoctoral research fellow, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, 1998. Research Fellow, Australian National University. 1999-2003