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  1. Claire’s corner

    Article • Diachronica, November 2025, John Benjamins

    Professor Claire Bowern

  2. Potential future pathways towards better modelling of language evolution

    Article • Diachronica, May 2025, John Benjamins

    Professor Bridget Drinka, Professor Salikoko S Mufwene, Professor Claire Bowern, Simon Greenhill

  3. Claire’s corner

    Article • Diachronica, December 2024, John Benjamins

    Professor Claire Bowern

  4. Diachrony and Diachronica

    Article • Diachronica, December 2024, John Benjamins

    Dr Brian D Joseph, Hiram Smith, Professor Claire Bowern, Ailís Cournane, Dr Joan L Bybee

  5. Diachrony and Diachronica

    Article • Diachronica, September 2024, John Benjamins

    Dr Patience Epps, Wilkinson Daniel Wong Gonzales, Professor Claire Bowern

  6. Diachrony and Diachronica

    Article • Diachronica, June 2024, John Benjamins

    Professor Claire Bowern, Professor Jadranka Gvozdanovic, Mr John A Goldsmith, Ander Egurtzegi, Götz Keydana

  7. Diachrony and Diachronica

    Article • Diachronica, December 2023, John Benjamins

    Professor Claire Bowern, ADITI Lahiri, Dr Anne Breitbarth, David Goldstein, Freek Van de Velde, George Walkden

  8. Claire’s corner

    Article • Diachronica, December 2023, John Benjamins

    Professor Claire Bowern

  9. Diachrony and Diachronica

    Article • Diachronica, December 2023, John Benjamins

    Professor Claire Bowern, Professor Joseph Salmons, Professor Nigel Vincent, Professor Sali Anna Tagliamonte, William Labov

  10. Claire’s Corner

    Article • Diachronica, November 2022, John Benjamins

    Professor Claire Bowern

  11. Claire’s corner

    Article • Diachronica, November 2021, John Benjamins

    Professor Claire Bowern

  12. Phylogenetic signal in phonotactics

    Article • Diachronica, February 2021, John Benjamins

    Professor Claire Bowern, Dr Erich R Round

  13. Claire’s Corner

    Article • Diachronica, December 2020, John Benjamins

    Professor Claire Bowern

  14. Studying which sounds are more likely to change

    Article • Linguistics Vanguard, September 2018, De Gruyter

    Professor Claire Bowern

  15. The origin and expansion of Pama–Nyungan languages across Australia

    Article • Nature Ecology & Evolution, March 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Claire Bowern, Dr Quentin D Atkinson

  16. The Indo-European controversyand Bayesian phylogenetic methods

    Article • Diachronica, October 2017, John Benjamins

    Professor Claire Bowern

  17. Reply to Nash: Color terms are lost, despite missing data

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, September 2017, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor Claire Bowern

  18. Phylogenetic approach to the evolution of color term systems

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, November 2016, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor Claire Bowern

  19. Quantifying uncertainty in the phylogenetics of Australian numeral systems

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, September 2015, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Claire Bowern

  20. Linguistic Fieldwork

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Claire Bowern

  21. Linguistics: Evolution and Language Change

    Article • Current Biology, January 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Claire Bowern

  22. Data “big” and “small” – Examples from the Australian lexical database

    Article • Linguistics Vanguard, January 2015, De Gruyter

    Professor Claire Bowern

  23. Research priorities in historical-comparative linguistics

    Article • Diachronica, August 2014, John Benjamins

    Simon Greenhill, Professor Claire Bowern, Dr Brian D Joseph, Professor Malcolm Ross, Dr Robert Mailhammer, robert blust

  24. Loan and Inheritance Patterns in Hunter-Gatherer Ethnobiological Systems

    Article • Journal of Ethnobiology, July 2014, Society of Ethnobiology

    Professor Claire Bowern

  25. Sound Symbolism in the Languages of Australia

    Article • PLOS One, April 2014, PLOS

    Professor Claire Bowern

  26. Wanderwörter in languages of the Americas and Australia

    Article • Ampersand, January 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Claire Bowern

  27. Sivisa Titan: Sketch grammar, texts, vocabulary based on material collected by P. Josef Meier and Po Minis by Claire Bowern

    Article • Oceanic Linguistics, January 2014, Project Muse

    Professor Claire Bowern

  28. Toward a Mechanistic Understanding of Linguistic Diversity

    Article • BioScience, July 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Claire Bowern

  29. Relatedness as a Factor in Language Contact

    Article • Journal of Language Contact, January 2013, Brill

    Professor Claire Bowern

  30. Afterword

    Article • January 2013, John Benjamins

    Professor Claire Bowern

  31. Bardi

    Article • Journal of the International Phonetic Association, November 2012, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Claire Bowern

  32. The riddle of Tasmanian languages

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, September 2012, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Claire Bowern

  33. Nyikina paradigms and refunctionalization

    Article • Journal of Historical Linguistics, July 2012, John Benjamins

    Professor Claire Bowern

  34. Rejection of a serial founder effects model of genetic and linguistic coevolution

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, February 2012, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Claire Bowern

  35. On numeral complexity in hunter-gatherer languages

    Article • Linguistic Typology, January 2012, De Gruyter

    Professor Claire Bowern

  36. A Grammar of Bardi

    Article • January 2012, De Gruyter

    Professor Claire Bowern

  37. Computational phylogenetics and the internal structure of Pama-Nyungan

    Article • Language, January 2012, Project Muse

    Dr Quentin D Atkinson, Professor Claire Bowern

  38. Diversity in the Numeral Systems of Australian Languages

    Article • Anthropological Linguistics, January 2012, Project Muse

    Professor Claire Bowern

  39. Does Lateral Transmission Obscure Inheritance in Hunter-Gatherer Languages?

    Article • PLOS One, September 2011, PLOS

    Professor Claire Bowern

  40. Out of Africa? The logic of phoneme inventories and founder effects

    Article • Linguistic Typology, January 2011, De Gruyter

    Professor Claire Bowern

  41. The Prehistory and Internal Relationships of Australian Languages

    Article • Language and Linguistics Compass, January 2011, Wiley

    Professor Claire Bowern

  42. Reappraising the Effects of Language Contact in the Torres Strait

    Article • Journal of Language Contact, January 2011, Brill

    Professor Claire Bowern

  43. Historical linguistics in Australia: trees, networks and their implications

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, November 2010, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Claire Bowern

  44. Correlates of Language Change in Hunter-Gatherer and Other ‘Small’ Languages

    Article • Language and Linguistics Compass, August 2010, Wiley

    Professor Claire Bowern

  45. The typological implications of Bardi complex predicates

    Article • Linguistic Typology, January 2010, De Gruyter

    Professor Claire Bowern

  46. Reassessing Karnic: A Reply to Breen (2007)

    Article • Australian Journal of Linguistics, September 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Claire Bowern

  47. The Diachrony of Complex Predication

    Article • Diachronica, September 2008, John Benjamins

    Professor Claire Bowern

  48. The diachrony of complex predicates

    Article • Diachronica, September 2008, John Benjamins

    Professor Claire Bowern

  49. The reconstruction of Nyulnyulan complex predication

    Article • Diachronica, September 2008, John Benjamins

    Professor Claire Bowern

  50. Morphology and Language History

    Article • June 2008, John Benjamins

    Professor Claire Bowern

  51. Linguistic Fieldwork

    Article • January 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Claire Bowern

  52. Syntactic change and syntactic borrowing in generative grammar

    Article • January 2008, John Benjamins

    Professor Claire Bowern

  53. Bardi arguments: Referentiality, agreement and omission in Bardi discourse

    Article • January 2008, John Benjamins

    Professor Claire Bowern

  54. 1. Western Torres Strait language classification and development

    Article • January 2008, John Benjamins

    Professor Claire Bowern

  55. The origins of tense-based case marking in Pitta-Pitta and Wangkajutjuru

    Article • Australian Journal of Linguistics, October 2004, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Claire Bowern

  56. Australian Languages

    Article • March 2004, John Benjamins

    Professor Claire Bowern

  57. Diagnostic similarities and differences between Nyulnyulan and neighbouring languages

    Article • March 2004, John Benjamins

    Professor Claire Bowern

  58. Planning a language-documentation project

    Article • January 1999, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Claire Bowern

  59. Australian Languages

    Article • Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Claire Bowern

  60. Fieldwork in Contact Situations

    Article • Wiley

    Professor Claire Bowern

  61. 6. Complex Predicates in Australian languages

    Article • De Gruyter

    Professor Claire Bowern