John Bowden (masanin harshe)

John Frederick Bowden (an haife shi a shekara ta 1958 a Ostiraliya ) masanin harshe ne wanda ya kware a ilimin harshe na Austronesian da Papuan . Babban sha'awar bincikensa shine harsunan gabashin Indonesia da Timor-Leste.

 Ilimi 
Bowden ya sami digiri na farko da digiri na biyu a fannin ilimin harshe a Jami'ar Auckland .  Ya yi karatun digirinsa a Jami'ar Melbourne, inda ya rubuta bayanin ilimin lissafi na yaren Taba don rubutun sa (Taba [Makian Dalam]: Bayani na harshen Austronesian daga Gabashin Indonesia, 1997). 

 Ayyuka 
Tare da masu bincike daga Cibiyar Kimiyya ta Indonesia (Lembaga Ilmu Pengetahuan Indonesia), ya rubuta Harshen Gamkonora, harshen Papuan na Halmahera. Ya yi bincike kan harshen Malay wanda ba daidai ba kamar Arewacin Moluccan Malay da yaren Jakarta. Har ila yau, Bowden ya yi nazarin Harsunan Kudancin Halmahera sosai, musamman kan ilimin harshe, hulɗar harshe, da ƙamus.

Ya kasance mai bincike na postdoctoral a Cibiyar Max Planck ta Psycholinguistics . Kimanin shekaru 10, ya kasance mai bincike a Jami'ar Kasa ta Australia . Ya kuma yi aiki a matsayin darektan gida na Jakarta Field Station na Sashen Harshe na Cibiyar Max Planck ta Halitta. 

 Ayyukan da aka zaɓa 
Ayyukan da John Bowden ya zaɓa: 

 Bayan Gabatarwa: Grammaticalization of Locatives in Oceanic Languages (1992) 
 Taba: Bayani na Harshe na Kudancin Halmahera (2001) 
 Tafiya ta hanyar Al'adu da Harshe na Austronesian da Papuan (2010) 

 manazarta 

Rukuni:Haihuwan 1958
Rukuni:Rayayyun mutane