All Stories

  1. 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

  2. Claire’s corner

    Article • Diachronica, December 2023, John Benjamins

    Professor Claire Bowern

  3. Diachrony and Diachronica

    Article • Diachronica, December 2023, John Benjamins

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

  4. Claire’s Corner

    Article • Diachronica, November 2022, John Benjamins

    Professor Claire Bowern

  5. Claire’s corner

    Article • Diachronica, November 2021, John Benjamins

    Professor Claire Bowern

  6. Phylogenetic signal in phonotactics

    Article • Diachronica, February 2021, John Benjamins

    Professor Claire Bowern, Dr Erich R Round

  7. Claire’s Corner

    Article • Diachronica, December 2020, John Benjamins

    Professor Claire Bowern

  8. Studying which sounds are more likely to change

    Article • Linguistics Vanguard, September 2018, De Gruyter

    Professor Claire Bowern

  9. 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

  10. The Indo-European controversyand Bayesian phylogenetic methods

    Article • Diachronica, October 2017, John Benjamins

    Professor Claire Bowern

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. Linguistic Fieldwork

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Claire Bowern

  15. Linguistics: Evolution and Language Change

    Article • Current Biology, January 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Claire Bowern

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

    Article • Linguistics Vanguard, January 2015, De Gruyter

    Professor Claire Bowern

  17. 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

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

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

    Professor Claire Bowern

  19. Sound Symbolism in the Languages of Australia

    Article • PLoS ONE, April 2014, PLOS

    Professor Claire Bowern

  20. Wanderwörter in languages of the Americas and Australia

    Article • Ampersand, January 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Claire Bowern

  21. 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

  22. Toward a Mechanistic Understanding of Linguistic Diversity

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

    Professor Claire Bowern

  23. Relatedness as a Factor in Language Contact

    Article • Journal of Language Contact, January 2013, Brill

    Professor Claire Bowern

  24. Afterword

    Article • January 2013, John Benjamins

    Professor Claire Bowern

  25. Bardi

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

    Professor Claire Bowern

  26. The riddle of Tasmanian languages

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

    Professor Claire Bowern

  27. Nyikina paradigms and refunctionalization

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

    Professor Claire Bowern

  28. 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

  29. On numeral complexity in hunter-gatherer languages

    Article • Linguistic Typology, January 2012, De Gruyter

    Professor Claire Bowern

  30. A Grammar of Bardi

    Article • January 2012, De Gruyter

    Professor Claire Bowern

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

    Article • Language, January 2012, Project Muse

    Dr Quentin D Atkinson, Professor Claire Bowern

  32. Diversity in the Numeral Systems of Australian Languages

    Article • Anthropological Linguistics, January 2012, Project Muse

    Professor Claire Bowern

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

    Article • PLoS ONE, September 2011, PLOS

    Professor Claire Bowern

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

    Article • Linguistic Typology, January 2011, De Gruyter

    Professor Claire Bowern

  35. The Prehistory and Internal Relationships of Australian Languages

    Article • Language and Linguistics Compass, January 2011, Wiley

    Professor Claire Bowern

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

    Article • Journal of Language Contact, January 2011, Brill

    Professor Claire Bowern

  37. 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

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

    Article • Language and Linguistics Compass, August 2010, Wiley

    Professor Claire Bowern

  39. The typological implications of Bardi complex predicates

    Article • Linguistic Typology, January 2010, De Gruyter

    Professor Claire Bowern

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

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

    Professor Claire Bowern

  41. The Diachrony of Complex Predication

    Article • Diachronica, September 2008, John Benjamins

    Professor Claire Bowern

  42. The diachrony of complex predicates

    Article • Diachronica, September 2008, John Benjamins

    Professor Claire Bowern

  43. The reconstruction of Nyulnyulan complex predication

    Article • Diachronica, September 2008, John Benjamins

    Professor Claire Bowern

  44. Morphology and Language History

    Article • June 2008, John Benjamins

    Professor Claire Bowern

  45. Linguistic Fieldwork

    Article • January 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Claire Bowern

  46. Syntactic change and syntactic borrowing in generative grammar

    Article • January 2008, John Benjamins

    Professor Claire Bowern

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

    Article • January 2008, John Benjamins

    Professor Claire Bowern

  48. 1. Western Torres Strait language classification and development

    Article • January 2008, John Benjamins

    Professor Claire Bowern

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

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

    Professor Claire Bowern

  50. Australian Languages

    Article • March 2004, John Benjamins

    Professor Claire Bowern

  51. Diagnostic similarities and differences between Nyulnyulan and neighbouring languages

    Article • March 2004, John Benjamins

    Professor Claire Bowern

  52. Planning a language-documentation project

    Article • January 1999, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Claire Bowern

  53. Australian Languages

    Article • Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Claire Bowern

  54. Fieldwork in Contact Situations

    Article • Wiley

    Professor Claire Bowern

  55. 6. Complex Predicates in Australian languages

    Article • De Gruyter

    Professor Claire Bowern