Claire Bowern
List of John Benjamins publications in which Claire Bowern is involved.
Journals
ISSN 0176-4225 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9714
Journal of Historical Linguistics
General Editor: Silvia Luraghi and Guglielmo Inglese
ISSN 2210-2116 | E‑ISSN 2210‑2124
Book series
Titles
The Diachrony of Complex Predication
Edited by Claire Bowern
Special issue of Diachronica 25:2 (2008) 147 pp.
Morphology and Language History: In honour of Harold Koch
Edited by Claire Bowern, Bethwyn Evans and Luisa Miceli
This volume aims to make a contribution to codifying the methods and practices linguists use to recover language history, focussing predominantly on historical morphology. The volume includes studies on a wide range of languages: not only Indo-European, but also Austronesian, Sinitic, Mon-Khmer,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 298] 2008. x, 364 pp.
Australian Languages: Classification and the comparative method
Edited by Claire Bowern and Harold Koch
This book addresses controversial issues in the application of the comparative method to the languages of Australia which have recently come to international prominence. Are these languages ‘different’ in ways that challenge the fundamental assumptions of historical linguistics? Can subgrouping be… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 249] 2004. xii, 377 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)
2025 Claire’s corner Diachronica 42:5, pp. 527–528 | Editorial
2025 Diachrony and Diachronica: 40@40 Diachronica 42:2, pp. 137–160 | Editorial
2024 Chapter 3. Phylogenetic signal in the lexicon: Are parental terms influenced by baby talk? Historical Linguistics 2019: Selected papers from the 24th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Canberra, 1–5 July 2019, Evans, Bethwyn, Maria Kristina Gallego and Luisa Miceli (eds.), pp. 59–73 | Chapter
It has long been known that parental terms are poor indicators of shared genetic relationship because of their tendency to be influenced by features of “baby-talk”. However, change and stability of parental terms within language families has not been closely studied. Here I evaluate the… read more
2024 Claire’s corner Diachronica 41:5, pp. 732–733 | Editorial
2024 Diachrony and Diachronica: 40@40 Diachronica 41:5, pp. 719–731 | Editorial
2024 Diachrony and Diachronica: 40@40 Diachronica 41:1, pp. 127–140 | Editorial
2024 Diachrony and Diachronica: 40@40 Diachronica 41:4, pp. 556–574 | Editorial
2023 Claire’s corner Diachronica 40:5, pp. 569–570 | Introduction
2023 Diachrony and Diachronica: 40@40 Diachronica 40:5, pp. 666–682 | Editorial
2023 Diachrony and Diachronica: 40@40 Diachronica 40:4, pp. 557–568 | Editorial
2022 Claire’s Corner Diachronica 39:5, pp. 609–612 | Miscellaneous
2021 Claire’s corner Diachronica 38:4, pp. 503–505 | Editorial
2021 Phylogenetic signal in phonotactics Diachronica 38:2, pp. 210–258 | Article
Phylogenetic methods have broad potential in linguistics beyond tree inference. Here, we show how a phylogenetic approach opens the possibility of gaining historical insights from entirely new kinds of linguistic data – in this instance, statistical phonotactics. We extract phonotactic data from… read more
2020 Claire’s Corner Diachronica 37:4, pp. 447–450 | Editorial
2017 The Indo-European controversy and Bayesian phylogenetic methods Diachronica 34:3, pp. 421–436 | Review article
2015 Bardi temperature terms The Linguistics of Temperature, Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria (ed.), pp. 815–831 | Article
Bardi is a non-Pama-Nyungan (Nyulnyulan) language from Australia’s north. Bardi’s three temperature terms (moola ‘hot/warm’, inkoorr ‘cold’, and binyj(a) ‘cooled down’) are here discussed and exemplified. We give a survey of the syntactic constructions in which temperature terms appear, and discuss… read more
2013 Afterword: Jane Hill’s current work The Persistence of Language: Constructing and confronting the past and present in the voices of Jane H. Hill, Bischoff, Shannon T., Deborah Cole, Amy V. Fountain and Mizuki Miyashita (eds.), pp. 425–430 | Afterword
2012 Nyikina paradigms and refunctionalization: A cautionary tale in morphological reconstruction Journal of Historical Linguistics 2:1, pp. 7–24 | Article
Here I present a case study of change in the complex verb morphology of the Nyikina language of Northwestern Australia. I describe changes which lead to reanalysis of underlying forms while preserving much of the inherited phonological material. The changes presented here do not fit into previous… read more
2008 1. Western Torres Strait language classification and development Morphology and Language History: In honour of Harold Koch, Bowern, Claire, Bethwyn Evans and Luisa Miceli (eds.), pp. 15–30 | Article
2008 The reconstruction of Nyulnyulan complex predication The Diachrony of Complex Predication, Bowern, Claire (ed.), pp. 186–212 | Article
2008 Bardi arguments: Referentiality, agreement and omission in Bardi discourse Discourse and Grammar in Australian Languages, Mushin, Ilana and Brett Baker (eds.), pp. 59–85 | Article
The Bardi language of Northwestern Australia exhibits complex interactions between morphology, syntax, and discourse structure. In this paper I examine the interplay between constituent order, the marking of argument functions through verbal agreement, and the role of bound nominal omission. The… read more
2008 The diachrony of complex predicates The Diachrony of Complex Predication, Bowern, Claire (ed.), pp. 161–185 | Article
While complex predicate constructions, including light verb structures and verb serialisation, are found in many of the world’s languages, there has been little diachronic work on these structures to date. In this paper I survey the state of the field and describe current ideas on the origins and… read more
2008 Syntactic change and syntactic borrowing in generative grammar Principles of Syntactic Reconstruction, Ferraresi, Gisella and Maria Goldbach (eds.), pp. 187–216 | Article
This paper explores three issues in the reconstruction of syntactic borrowing. First, I discuss the scholarly traditions which have shaped historical phonology and historical syntax. I point out some of the incompatible assumptions which the two fields make, and examine the role of speakers’… read more
2008 Introduction Morphology and Language History: In honour of Harold Koch, Bowern, Claire, Bethwyn Evans and Luisa Miceli (eds.), pp. 1–11 | Miscellaneous
2004 Diagnostic similarities and differences between Nyulnyulan and neighbouring languages Australian Languages: Classification and the comparative method, Bowern, Claire and Harold Koch (eds.), pp. 269–290 | Article
2004 Introduction: subgrouping methodology in historical linguistics Australian Languages: Classification and the comparative method, Bowern, Claire and Harold Koch (eds.), pp. 1–16 | Article