School of Languages: And the still speak Dyari

Speaker

Professor Peter K. Austin is a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National Dictionary Centre. He is a Märit Rausing Chair in Field Linguistics and Director of the Endangered Languages Academic Programme in the Department of Linguistics at School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.

Peter's research interests cover theoretical, typological, historical and applied linguistics and he has carried out fieldwork on 12 Australian Aboriginal languages along with Sasak and Samawa in eastern Indonesia.