John Frederick Bowden (born 1958 in Australia) 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 , mottoeng = By natural ability and hard work , established = 1883; years ago , endowment = NZD $293 million (31 December 2021) , budget = NZD $1.281 billion (31 December 2021) , chancellor = Cecilia Tarrant , vice_chancellor = Dawn F ...

. In 1992, he completed his doctoral studies at the

University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne is a public research university located in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1853, it is Australia's second oldest university and the oldest in Victoria. Its main campus is located in Parkville, an inner suburb no ...

, where he wrote a grammatical description of the Taba language for his dissertation.

Career

Together with researchers from the

Indonesian Institute of Sciences The Indonesian Institute of Sciences ( id, Lembaga Ilmu Pengetahuan Indonesia, or LIPI) was the governmental authority for science and research in Indonesia. It consists of 47 research centers in the fields ranging from social to natural scien ...

(Lembaga Ilmu Pengetahuan Indonesia), he documented the

Gamkonora language Gamkonora is a North Halmahera language of Indonesia. References Languages of Indonesia North Halmahera languages {{Indonesia-stub ...

, a Papuan language of

Halmahera Halmahera, formerly known as Jilolo, Gilolo, or Jailolo, is the largest island in the Maluku Islands. It is part of the North Maluku province of Indonesia, and Sofifi, the capital of the province, is located on the west coast of the island. Ha ...

. He has done research on non-standard Malay lingua francas such as

North Moluccan Malay North Moluccan Malay (also known as Ternate Malay) is a Malay-based creole language spoken on Ternate, Tidore, Halmahera, and Sula Islands, North Maluku for intergroup communications. The local name of the language is ''Bahasa Pasar'', and the ...

and the dialect of Jakarta. Also, Bowden has extensively studied South Halmahera languages, especially on linguistic typology, language contact, and grammar. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the

Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics The Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (German: ''Max-Planck-Institut für Psycholinguistik''; Dutch: ''Max Planck Instituut voor Psycholinguïstiek'') is a research institute situated on the campus of Radboud University Nijmegen located ...

. For about 10 years, he was a researcher at the

Australian National University The Australian National University (ANU) is a public research university located in Canberra, the capital of Australia. Its main campus in Acton encompasses seven teaching and research colleges, in addition to several national academies an ...

. 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 The Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (german: Max-Planck-Institut für evolutionäre Anthropologie, shortened to MPI EVA) is a research institute based in Leipzig, Germany, that was founded in 1997. It is part of the Max Plan ...

Selected works

Selected works by John Bowden: * ''Behind the Preposition: The Grammaticalization of Locatives in Oceanic Languages'' (1992) * ''Taba: Description of a South Halmahera Language'' (2001) * ''A Journey through Austronesian and Papuan Cultural and Linguistic Space'' (2010)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bowden, John Living people 1958 births Linguists of Austronesian languages Linguists of Papuan languages Linguists of West Papuan languages Linguists from Australia University of Auckland alumni University of Melbourne alumni