Peter Austin (masanin harshe)

Peter Kenneth Austin, wanda sau da yawa ake kira Peter K. Austin, masanin harshe ne na kasar  Australiya, wanda aka rubuta shi a fannonin takardun harshe, haɗin kai, nau'ikan harshe kuma musamman, harsuna masu haɗari da farfado da harshe. Bayan dogon aikin ilimi a Ostiraliya, Hong Kong, Amurka, Japan, Jamus da Burtaniya, Austin ya zama farfesa a Jami'ar SOAS ta London tun lokacin da ya yi ritaya a watan Disamba 2018.

 Ilimi da aiki 
Bayan kammala Digiri na BA tare da girmamawa na farko a Nazarin Asiya (Jafananci da Harshe) a shekara ta 1974,  Austin ya sami digirinsa na PhD tare da rubutunsa mai taken A grammar of the Diyari language of north-east South Australia a Jami'ar Kasa ta Australia (ANU) a shekara. 

Daga nan ya koyar a Jami'ar Yammacin Ostiraliya, ya gudanar da Harkness Fellowship a UCLA da Cibiyar Fasaha ta Massachusetts (MIT) a cikin 1979-80, kuma a cikin 1981 ya jagoranci Sashen (daga baya Sashen) na Harshe a Jami'a ta La Trobe a Melbourne. Ya gudanar da alƙawura a Cibiyar Max Planck ta Psycholinguistics a Nijmegen, Jami'ar Tokyo ta Nazarin Kasashen Waje, Jami'an Hong Kong, da Jami'ar Stanford, kuma ya kasance Farfesa na Gidauniyar Harshe a Jami'ar Melbourne daga 1996 zuwa 2002.

Ya zama Shugaban Märit Rausing a cikin Field Linguistics  a watan Janairun 2003 [1] sannan kuma Farfesa Emeritus a cikin Field Harsuna a SOAS a lokacin da ya yi ritaya a watan Disamba 2018.  A duk lokacin da yake aiki, Austin ya shiga cikin aiki don yin rubuce-rubuce da bayyana harsunan da ba haka ba suna gab da halakawa.

Ya yi aiki tare da Eli Timan a kan rubuce-rubucen Larabci na Yahudawa da Iraki, kuma tare da Sabah Aldihisi a kan harshen al'ada na Neo-Mandaic da al'ummomin Mandean na Siriya, Iraki da Iran ke amfani da su.

A lokacin da ya yi ritaya, ya yi aiki tare da abokan aiki a Jami'ar Warsaw da Jami'ar Leiden a kan hadin gwiwar EU Horizon2020 Twinning da ake kira aikin Engaged Humanities .  Ya kuma yi aiki tare da Stefanie Pillai na Jami'ar Malaya, a kan aikin bincike wanda Kwalejin Burtaniya a Malaysia ta tallafawa. A cikin 2020 an ba shi kyautar Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship (2021-2023) don yin aiki a kan ƙamus na Diyari (Kudancin Australia) da tarihin rayuwar malaminsa na Diyari Ben Murray .    [failed verification]

 Ayyuka 

 Dieri 
Ya yi aiki sosai a kan Harshen Dieri (Diyari)  na arewacin SA. Ya fara koyon Diyari a shekara ta 1974, daga masu magana da harshen asali da yawa, ciki har da Leslie Russell, Frieda Merrick, Rosa Warren, da Ben Murray, wanda ya sadu da shi a Marree, Kudancin Australia. Tare da Luise Hercus da David Trefry, ya yi bincike mai yawa game da harshe a cikin shekarun 1970s. Austin ya buga wani harshe na Diyari a cikin 1981. 

Daga shekara ta 2011 yana aiki tare da Kamfanin Dieri Aboriginal Corporation kan farfado da harshe. A cikin 2013 ya buga daftarin ƙamus na Diyari, yana rubutawa a cikin gabatarwa cewa akwai ma'anar aboki, kuma tarin rubutu yana cikin shiri. A shekara ta 2014 ya wallafa wata kasida "Kuma har yanzu suna magana da Diyari", inda ya rubuta game da wuri na musamman na yaren, a matsayin batun sha'awa mai zurfi daga baƙi da kuma masu magana da asali kusan kusan kusan shekaru 140, kuma ba wai kawai ba a ƙare ba, amma yana rayuwa kuma ana kiyaye shi don nan gaba.

Tun daga shekara ta 2013 Austin ta ci gaba da yin blog a kan Diyari. Shafin yanar gizon yana daya daga cikin ayyukan farfado da harshe da aka gudanar tare da al'ummar Dieri.

 Harsunan Austronesian 
Tun daga shekara ta 1995, Austin ya kuma yi aiki a kan yarukan Austronesian Sasak da Sumbawa_language" id="mwlg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Sumbawa language">Samawa, waɗanda ake magana a tsibirin Lombok da Sumbawa a cikin Tsibirin Indonesiya.

Ya kuma wallafa ayyukan tarihi da kwatankwacin harsuna, nau'ikan, da tarihin Aboriginal da tarihin rayuwa.

 Kyaututtuka 
Austin ya lashe kyaututtuka da kyaututtaka masu zuwa:

 1974: Medal na ANU a cikin ilimin harshe 
 1978: Harkness Fellowship na Asusun Commonwealth na New York 
 1999: Deutsche Akamedische Austauschdienst (Jamusanci na Musayar Ilimi) 
 2002: Gidauniyar Alexander von Humboldt Gidauniya Humboldt Bincike Award (Forschungspreis) 
 2010: Kyauta don farfesa mai ziyara ga Farfesa Anvita Abbi, daga Leverhulme Trust 
 2010: Gidauniyar Alexander von Humboldt Gidauniya Humboldt Bincike Award 
 2015: Dokta na girmamawa daga Faculty of Languages a Jami'ar Uppsala (don taka rawar gani ta duniya wajen jawo hankali ga harsuna masu haɗari ta hanyar jaddada muhimmancin yin rikodin al'adun al'adun ɗan adam da dubban harsuna ke cikin haɗarin ɓacewa a nan gaba.) 
 2018-19: Kyautar Bincike ta Alexander von Humboldt Foundation 
 2020: Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship, don ƙarin bincike kan yaren Diyari.

 Tushen 

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