Welcome! I am a retired Linguistics researcher living in London and this is my personal homepage where you can find information and news about what I am currently working on, as well as links to blogs and a podcast that I contribute to. You can also download my publications, presentations, and draft papers that are not yet published.
NEWS:
(1) 2023-11-15 collaborated with Dieri community families at a Yarning About Language workshop in Broken Hill, New South Wales -- see blog post here;
(2) 2023-09-12 added slides for presentation "Corpus creation, archiving and use" given at FieldLing, Paris, to 2023 presentations;
(3) 2023-08-28 added slides for presentation "The lonely lexicographer – J.G. Reuther’s Diari dictionary" given at 10th European Australianists Workshop, Cologne, Germany to 2023 presentations;
(4) 2023-08-28 added "Austin, Peter K. 2023. Citizens, speakers, and documentation of (endangered) languages and cultures. To appear in Éva Á. Csató & Birsel Karakoç (eds.) Language Documentation in Comparative Turkic Linguistics. Special Issue of Journal of Endangered Languages/Tehlikedeki Diller Dergisi." to unpublished papers;
(5) 2023-08-01 added three presentations from the LDSS2023 Summer School in Naples.
I publish podcasts in and about the Diyari (Dieri) language, spoken in South Australia. You can listen to episodes. If you have the Spotify app on your phone, mobile device, or computer search for Diyari Yawarra and click Follow to listen and get regular updates as new episodes are published.
I am co-editor with David Nathan of EL Publishing, an online platform that publishes quality peer-reviewed open access eBooks and multimedia on documentation, description, and support of endangered and minoritised languages. We publish on the theory and practice of language documentation, language description, sociolinguistics, language policy, and language revitalisation. All publications are double-blind peer reviewed, and are free to download under a Creative Commons licence. Find out more here.
Note: the journal Language Documentation and Description is now hosted by Aperio at the University of Virginia.
I am co-author with David Nathan of EL Blog, which provides a place for challenge and debate around topics having to do with endangered languages, and includes updates on our publications work and other activities. You can find out more about this and other blogs that I contribute to here.
EL Training was established by David Nathan and myself in 2014 to deliver high quality workshops (1-14 days) on the theory and practice of language documentation, language description, sociolinguistics, language policy, and language revitalisation. We emphasise practical skills and group-based hands-on project work. Our website has freely downloadable curriculum, reference, and teaching materials from several years of training courses, and is currently being updated.
I strongly believe in communicating research results to the general public through books, exhibitions, activities, and public lectures. You can find out more about things I have been involved in here.
You can find out more about me here, or on English Wikipedia, Wikidata, Polish Wikipedia, WorldCat, and University of Uppsala (in Swedish). You can follow me on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Research Gate, and Academia.
To find out about new developments, new publications, training courses or things that I am currently working on, click on the News tab above.