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class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Linguistics" title="Linguistics">Linguist</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Sub-discipline</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Language_documentation" title="Language documentation">Language documentation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Syntax" title="Syntax">Syntax</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Linguistic_typology" title="Linguistic typology">Linguistic typology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Language_revitalisation" class="mw-redirect" title="Language revitalisation">Language revitalisation</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Institutions</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/SOAS_University_of_London" title="SOAS University of London">SOAS University of London</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Peter Kenneth Austin</b>, often cited as <b>Peter K. Austin</b>, is an Australian <a href="/wiki/Linguistics" title="Linguistics">linguist</a>, widely published in the fields of <a href="/wiki/Language_documentation" title="Language documentation">language documentation</a>, <a href="/wiki/Syntax" title="Syntax">syntax</a>, <a href="/wiki/Linguistic_typology" title="Linguistic typology">linguistic typology</a> and in particular, <a href="/wiki/Endangered_language" title="Endangered language">endangered languages</a> and <a href="/wiki/Language_revitalisation" class="mw-redirect" title="Language revitalisation">language revitalisation</a>. After a long academic career in Australia, Hong Kong, the US, Japan, Germany and the UK, Austin is <a href="/wiki/Emeritus" title="Emeritus">emeritus</a> professor at <a href="/wiki/SOAS_University_of_London" title="SOAS University of London">SOAS University of London</a> since retiring in December 2018. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Education_and_career">Education and career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Peter_Austin_(linguist)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Education and career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After completing a <a href="/wiki/BA_degree" class="mw-redirect" title="BA degree">BA degree</a> with first class Honours in Asian Studies (Japanese and Linguistics) in 1974,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGresham_College_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGresham_College-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Austin earned his <a href="/wiki/PhD" class="mw-redirect" title="PhD">PhD</a> with his thesis entitled <i>A grammar of the Diyari language of north-east South Australia</i> at the <a href="/wiki/Australian_National_University" title="Australian National University">Australian National University</a> (ANU) in 1978.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEThesis1978_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEThesis1978-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He then taught at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Western_Australia" title="University of Western Australia">University of Western Australia</a>, held a <a href="/wiki/Harkness_Fellowship" title="Harkness Fellowship">Harkness Fellowship</a> at <a href="/wiki/UCLA" class="mw-redirect" title="UCLA">UCLA</a> and <a href="/wiki/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology" title="Massachusetts Institute of Technology">Massachusetts Institute of Technology</a> (MIT) in 1979–80, and in 1981 headed the Division (later Department) of Linguistics at <a href="/wiki/La_Trobe_University" title="La Trobe University">La Trobe University</a> in <a href="/wiki/Melbourne" title="Melbourne">Melbourne</a>. He held visiting appointments at <a href="/wiki/Max_Planck_Institute_for_Psycholinguistics" title="Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics">Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics</a> at <a href="/wiki/Nijmegen" title="Nijmegen">Nijmegen</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tokyo_University_of_Foreign_Studies" title="Tokyo University of Foreign Studies">Tokyo University of Foreign Studies</a>, <a href="/wiki/University_of_Hong_Kong" title="University of Hong Kong">University of Hong Kong</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Stanford_University" title="Stanford University">Stanford University</a>, and was Foundation Professor of Linguistics at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Melbourne" title="University of Melbourne">University of Melbourne</a> from 1996 to 2002.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGresham_College_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGresham_College-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He became the <a href="/wiki/Hans_Rausing" title="Hans Rausing">Märit Rausing Chair in Field Linguistics</a><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELinguistic_Summer_School2015_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELinguistic_Summer_School2015-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in January 2003<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGresham_College_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGresham_College-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and then Emeritus Professor in Field Linguistics at SOAS on his retirement in December 2018.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESOASmain_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESOASmain-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Throughout his career, Austin has been deeply involved in work to document and describe languages that are otherwise on the verge of extinction.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAustin2008_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAustin2008-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He worked with <a href="/w/index.php?title=Eli_Timan&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Eli Timan (page does not exist)">Eli Timan</a> on documenting <a href="/wiki/Judeo-Iraqi_Arabic" title="Judeo-Iraqi Arabic">Judeo-Iraqi Arabic</a>, and with <a href="/w/index.php?title=Sabah_Aldihisi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sabah Aldihisi (page does not exist)">Sabah Aldihisi</a> on <a href="/wiki/Neo-Mandaic" title="Neo-Mandaic">Neo-Mandaic</a> ritual language used by the <a href="/wiki/Mandaeism" title="Mandaeism">Mandean</a> communities of Syria, Iraq and Iran.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGresham_College_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGresham_College-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During his retirement, he worked with colleagues at <a href="/wiki/University_of_Warsaw" title="University of Warsaw">University of Warsaw</a> and <a href="/wiki/Leiden_University" title="Leiden University">Leiden University</a> on an EU Horizon2020 Twinning collaboration called the Engaged Humanities project.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEEH_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEH-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also worked with <a href="/w/index.php?title=Stefanie_Pillai&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Stefanie Pillai (page does not exist)">Stefanie Pillai</a> of the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Malaya" class="mw-redirect" title="University of Malaya">University of Malaya</a>, on a research project funded by the British Academy in <a href="/wiki/Malaysia" title="Malaysia">Malaysia</a>. In 2020 he was awarded a Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship (2021-2023) to work on a dictionary of Diyari (South Australia) and a biography of his Diyari teacher Ben Murray.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESOASmain_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESOASmain-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability"><span title="The material near this tag failed verification of its source citation(s). (March 2024)">failed verification</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Work">Work</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Peter_Austin_(linguist)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Work"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>He has done fieldwork on twelve <a href="/wiki/Australian_Aboriginal_languages" title="Australian Aboriginal languages">Australian Aboriginal languages</a>, particularly those from northern <a href="/wiki/New_South_Wales" title="New South Wales">New South Wales</a> ( such as <a href="/wiki/Gamilaraay_language" title="Gamilaraay language">Gamilaraay/Kamilaroi</a>), northern <a href="/wiki/South_Australia" title="South Australia">South Australia</a>, and north-west <a href="/wiki/Western_Australia" title="Western Australia">Western Australia</a>, publishing several bilingual dictionaries. These included, in collaboration with David Nathan, the first fully page-formatted hypertext dictionary of an Australian language, with the creation of the 1994 Gamilaraay online dictionary.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGamilaraay_dictionary_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGamilaraay_dictionary-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESOASmain_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESOASmain-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Dieri">Dieri</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Peter_Austin_(linguist)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Dieri"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>He has worked extensively and intensively on the <a href="/wiki/Diyari_language" title="Diyari language">Dieri (Diyari) language</a> of northern SA. He first learned Diyari in 1974, from several fluent native-speakers, including Leslie Russell, Frieda Merrick, Rosa Warren, and Ben Murray, who he encountered in <a href="/wiki/Marree,_South_Australia" title="Marree, South Australia">Marree, South Australia</a>. Along with <a href="/wiki/Luise_Hercus" title="Luise Hercus">Luise Hercus</a> and David Trefry, he did much research on the language in the 1970s. Austin published a grammar of Diyari in 1981.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDieri_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDieri-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>From 2011 he has been working with the Dieri Aboriginal Corporation on revitalisation of the language.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESOASmain_4-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESOASmain-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2013 he published a draft Diyari dictionary, writing in the preface that a companion grammar was also available, and that a text collection was in preparation.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDieri_dictionary2013_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDieri_dictionary2013-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2014 he published an article "And still they speak Diyari", in which he wrote of the unique place of the language, as the subject of intensive interest by outsiders as well as native speakers for nearly 140 years, and that not only is it not extinct, but it is living and being maintained for the future.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAnd_still_they_speak_Diyari_cit.2014_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAnd_still_they_speak_Diyari_cit.2014-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAnd_still_they_speak_Diyari_PDF2015_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAnd_still_they_speak_Diyari_PDF2015-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Since 2013 Austin has maintained a blog on <a href="/wiki/Diyari" title="Diyari">Diyari</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDieri_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDieri-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The blog is one of a number of <a href="/wiki/Language_revitalisation" class="mw-redirect" title="Language revitalisation">language revitalisation</a> and reclamation activities held in conjunction with the Dieri community. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Austronesian_languages">Austronesian languages</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Peter_Austin_(linguist)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Austronesian languages"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Since 1995, Austin has also worked on the <a href="/wiki/Austronesian_languages" title="Austronesian languages">Austronesian</a> languages <a href="/wiki/Sasak_language" title="Sasak language">Sasak</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sumbawa_language" title="Sumbawa language">Samawa</a>, which are spoken on the islands of <a href="/wiki/Lombok" title="Lombok">Lombok</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sumbawa" title="Sumbawa">Sumbawa</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Indonesian_archipelago" title="Indonesian archipelago">Indonesian archipelago</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESOASmain_4-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESOASmain-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He has also published works on historical and <a href="/wiki/Comparative_linguistics" title="Comparative linguistics">comparative linguistics</a>, typology, and Aboriginal history and biography.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESOASmain_4-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESOASmain-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards">Awards</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Peter_Austin_(linguist)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Awards"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Austin has won the following awards and prizes: </p> <ul><li>1974: ANU Medal in Linguistics<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECV_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECV-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1978: <a href="/wiki/Harkness_Fellowship" title="Harkness Fellowship">Harkness Fellowship</a> of the Commonwealth Fund of New York<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGresham_College_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGresham_College-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1999: Deutsche Akamedische Austauschdienst (German Academic Exchange Fellowship)<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECV_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECV-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2002: <a href="/wiki/Humboldt_Prize" class="mw-redirect" title="Humboldt Prize">Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Humboldt Research Award</a> (<i>Forschungspreis</i>)<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECV_12-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECV-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGresham_College_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGresham_College-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2010: Grant for a visiting professorship for Professor <a href="/wiki/Anvita_Abbi" title="Anvita Abbi">Anvita Abbi</a>, from the <a href="/wiki/Leverhulme_Trust" title="Leverhulme Trust">Leverhulme Trust</a><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2010: Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Humboldt Research Award<sup id="cite_ref-ownabout_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ownabout-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2015: <a href="/wiki/Honorary_degree" title="Honorary degree">Honorary doctorate</a> from the Faculty of Languages at <a href="/wiki/Uppsala_University" title="Uppsala University">Uppsala University</a> (for playing<i> "a crucial international part in drawing attention to endangered languages by emphasising the importance of documenting the human cultural heritage represented by the thousands of languages at risk of vanishing in the near future. His motto that</i> 'every lost word means yet another lost world' <i>has boosted schools' and the public's interest in endangered languages" </i>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEUppsala2014_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEUppsala2014-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>)</li> <li>2018–19: Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Humboldt Research Award<sup id="cite_ref-ownabout_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ownabout-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2020: <a href="/wiki/Leverhulme_Emeritus_Fellowship" class="mw-redirect" title="Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship">Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship</a>, for further research on the Diyari language.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Peter_Austin_(linguist)&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output 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href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGresham_College_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGresham_College_1-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGresham_College_1-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGresham_College_1-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGresham_College_1-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFGresham_College">Gresham College</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEThesis1978-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEThesis1978_2-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFThesis1978">Thesis 1978</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELinguistic_Summer_School2015-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELinguistic_Summer_School2015_3-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFLinguistic_Summer_School2015">Linguistic Summer School 2015</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTESOASmain-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESOASmain_4-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESOASmain_4-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESOASmain_4-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESOASmain_4-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESOASmain_4-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESOASmain_4-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFSOASmain">SOASmain</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEAustin2008-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAustin2008_5-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFAustin2008">Austin 2008</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEEH-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEEH_6-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a 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