Claire Bowern

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. She is currently an associate professor at Yale University, and also serves as the vice president of the Endangered Language Fund.

• (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.