Peter Austin

List of John Benjamins publications in which Peter Austin is involved.

Title

Complex Sentence Constructions in Australian Languages

Edited by Peter Austin

Over the past fifteen years, descriptions of Australian Aboriginal languages have provided important data for the typological study of morpho-syntactic phenomena. The present volume presents descriptions of complex sentence phenomena in ten Australian languages and provides important new material… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 15] 1988. vii, 289 pp.

Austin, Peter 2016 Language documentation 20 years on Endangered Languages and Languages in Danger: Issues of documentation, policy, and language rights, Filipović, Luna and Martin Pütz (eds.), pp. 147–170 | Article

In the last decade of the 20th century a new field of language research emerged that has come to be known as ‘language documentation’ or ‘documentary linguistics’ (Himmelmann 1998, 2002, 2006; Lehmann 2001; Austin 2010; Grenoble 2010; Woodbury 2003, 2011). In this paper we explore how it was… read more

Austin, Peter 2008 2. The classification of Pinikura, Western Australia Morphology and Language History: In honour of Harold Koch, Bowern, Claire, Bethwyn Evans and Luisa Miceli (eds.), pp. 31–41 | Article

Hercus, Luise and Peter Austin 2004 The Yarli languages Australian Languages: Classification and the comparative method, Bowern, Claire and Harold Koch (eds.), pp. 207–222 | Article

Austin, Peter 1998 Crow is sitting chasing them: grammaticalization and the verb ‘to sit’ in the Mantharta languages, Western Australia Case, Typology and Grammar: In honor of Barry J. Blake, Siewierska, Anna and Jae Jung Song (eds.), pp. 19–36 | Article

Austin, Peter 1988 Introduction Complex Sentence Constructions in Australian Languages, Austin, Peter (ed.), pp. 3–6 | Article

Austin, Peter 1982 The deictic system of Diyari Here and There: Cross-linguistic Studies on Deixis and Demonstration, Weissenborn, Jürgen and Wolfgang Klein (eds.), pp. 273–284 | Article