John Bowden (linguist)

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]

Education

Bowden 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

Together 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

Selected 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

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