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Profile
| Academic position | Emeritus |
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| Research fields | General and Applied Linguistics, Typology, Non-European Languages,Regional Studies |
| Keywords | Sociolinguistics, Dokumentation bedrohte Sprachen, Indonesische Regionalsprache, Sasak, Wörterbuch |
| Honours and awards | 2015: Honorary doctorate honoris causa, Uppsala University |
Current contact address
| Country | United Kingdom |
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| City | London |
| Institution | SOAS University of London |
| Institute | Department of Linguistics |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Bernd Nothofer | Institut für Orientalische und Ostasiatische Philologien, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main |
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| Prof. Dr. Jost Gippert | Institut für Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Phonetik und Slavische Philologie, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main |
| Prof. Dr. Jost Gippert | Institut für Empirische Sprachwissenschaft, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main |
| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/09/2002 |
Program(s)
| 2001 | Humboldt Research Award Programme |
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Nominator's project description
| Professor Peter Austin is one of the leading scholars in the field of synchronic Australian and Austronesian linguistics. He has held numerous positions as guest professor at academic institutions in Germany, Hongkong, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands and the United States. During his stay at the Departments of Comparative Linguistics and Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Frankfurt he will mainly work on the compilation of a trilingual dictionary of Sasak, a major regional language in Indonesia which is spoken on the island of Lombok located east of Bali. |
Publications (partial selection)
| 2008 | Peter K. Austin: Survival of Languages. In: Emily, Shuckbrugh, Survival. Cambridge University Press, 2008. 80-98 |
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