John Bowden (linguist)
{{Short description|Australian linguist}}
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John Frederick Bowden (born 1958 in Australia{{Cite web | url=https://viaf.org/viaf/55251925/ | title=55251925 | publisher=viaf.org | language=en | access-date=2020-01-15}}) is a linguist who specializes in Austronesian and Papuan linguistics. His main research interests are the languages of eastern Indonesia and Timor-Leste.
Education
Bowden obtained his bachelor's and master's degrees in linguistics at the University of Auckland.{{Cite web |author = |title = Introducing New Staff 42 :: ILCAA |date = |access-date = 2020-01-13 |publisher = www.aa.tufs.ac.jp |url = http://www.aa.tufs.ac.jp/en/essays/introduction/42 |language = en}} He did his doctoral studies at the University of Melbourne, where he wrote a grammatical description of the Taba language for his dissertation (Taba [Makian Dalam]: Description of an Austronesian language from Eastern Indonesia, 1997).{{citation |first = John |last = Bowden |title = Taba (Makian Dalam): Description of an Austronesian language from Eastern Indonesia |year = 1997 |hdl = 11343/35661 |oclc = 222104670 |location = Melbourne |publisher = Department of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, University of Melbourne }}
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.{{Cite web |author = Setiono Sugiharto |title = Frederick John Bowden: A passionate linguistic typologist |date = 2012-11-21 |access-date = 2020-01-13 |publisher = The Jakarta Post |url = https://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2012/11/21/frederick-john-bowden-a-passionate-linguistic-typologist.html |language = en}}
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.
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Category:Linguists of Austronesian languages
Category:Linguists of Papuan languages
Category:Linguists of West Papuan languages
Category:Linguists from Australia