Published books and articles

  1. Austin, Peter K. 2025. Argument coding and clause linkage in Australian Aboriginal languages. In Carmel O’Shannessy, James Gray, and Denise Angelo (eds.) Projecting voices: Studies in language and linguistics in honour of Jane Simpson, 153-190. Canberra Asia-Pacific Linguistics. link
  2. Austin, Peter K. 2024. Models and methods in linguistic fieldwork: a case study in reflexive meta-documentation. Ethnorema 20, 1-15. link
  3. Sallabank, Julia and Peter K. Austin. 2024. Endangered Languages. In Li Wei, Zhu Hua and James Simpson (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Applied Linguistics, 2nd edition, 362-373. link
  4. Austin, Peter K. 2024. Applicative Constructions in Australian Aboriginal Languages. In Fernando Zúñiga & Denis Creissels (eds.) Applicative Constructions in the World’s Languages, 391-418. Berlin: De Gruyter link
  5. Austin, Peter K. 2023. Citizens, speakers, and documentation of (endangered) languages and cultures. In Éva Á. Csató and Birsel Karakoç (eds.) Journal of Endangered Languages 13, Vol. 23: Language Documentation in Comparative Turkic Linguistics, 7-19. link
  6. Austin, Peter K. 2023. Making 2,180 pages more useful: the Diyari dictionary of Rev. J. G. Reuther. In Eda Dehermi & Christopher Moseley (eds.) Endangered Languages in the 21st Century , 241-257. London: Routledge. link
  7. Austin, Peter K. 2021. Corpora and archiving in language documentation, description, and revitalisation. Ethnorema 17, 53-65. link
  8. Austin, Peter K. 2021. Going on the Hajj: An annotatated text in the Menu-meni variety of Sasak, eastern Indonesia. Ethnorema 17, 91-111. link
  9. Austin, Peter K. & Stefanie Pillai. 2020. Language description, documentation and revitalisation of languages in Malaysia. Journal of Modern Languages 30(1), 1-5. link
  10. Austin, Peter K. 2020. Front matter. Language Documentation and Description 17, i-v. London: EL Publishing. link
  11. Austin, Peter K. 2020. Language documentation and revitalisation. In Justyna Olko & Julia Sallabank (eds.) Revitalizing endangered languages: a practical guide. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. download
  12. Austin, Peter K. 2019. Comunidades, ética y derechos en lingüística de la documentación. In Lucía Golluscio, Paola Pacor, Florencia Ciccone, Marta Krasan (eds.) Lingüística de la Documentación: textos fundacionales y proyecciones en América del Sur, 169-192. Spanish translation of Austin 2010. Buenos Aires : Eudeba & Universidad de Buenos Aires. download
  13. Austin, Peter K. & Julia Sallabank. 2018. Language documentation and language revitalisation: some methodological considerations. In Leanne Hinton, Leena Huss & Gerald Roche (eds.) Handbook of Language Revitalisation, 207-215. London: Routledge. download
  14. Austin, Peter K., Harold Koch & Jane Simpson. (eds.) 2018. Language, Land and Song in Aboriginal Australia. Second edition. Darwin: Batchelor Institute Press. purchase link
  15. Austin, Peter K. 2017. Language documentation and legacy text materials. Asian and African Languages and Linguistics 11, 23-44. link
  16. Austin, Peter K., Harold Koch & Jane Simpson. (eds.) 2016. Language, Land and Song in Aboriginal Australia. London: EL Publishing. download
  17. Koch, Harold, Peter Austin & Jane Simpson. 2016. Introduction. In Peter K. Austin, Harold Koch & Jane Simpson (eds.) Language, land & song: Studies in honour of Luise Hercus, 1-22. London: EL Publishing. link
  18. Austin, Peter K. 2016. Language documentation 20 years on. In Martin Pütz & Luna Filipović (eds.) Endangered Languages and Languages in Danger: Issues of ecology, policy and human rights, 147-170. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. download
  19. Peter K. 2014. And still they speak Diyari: the life history of an endangered language. Ethnorema 10, 1-17. link
  20. Austin, Peter K. 2014. Language documentation in the 21st century. JournaLIPP 3, 57-71. link
  21. Austin, Peter K. & Julia Sallabank. (eds.) 2014. Endangered Languages. Beliefs and Ideologies in Language Documentation and Revitalisation. London: British Academy. purchase link
  22. Austin, Peter K. & Julia Sallabank. 2014. Introduction. In Peter K. Austin & Julia Sallabank (eds.) Endangered Languages. Beliefs and Ideologies in Language Documentation and Revitalisation. London: British Academy. download
  23. Austin, Peter K. 2014. Going, going, gone? The ideology and politics of language revitalisation in eastern Australia. In Peter K. Austin & Julia Sallabank (eds.) Endangered Languages. Beliefs and Ideologies in Language Documentation and Revitalisation. London: British Academy. download
  24. Nathan, David & Peter K. Austin. 2014. Editors’ introduction. In David Nathan & Peter K. Austin (eds.) Language Documentation and Description 12, 4-16. Special Issue on Language Documentation and Archiving. London: SOAS. link
  25. Austin, Peter K. & Julia Sallabank. 2013. Editorial. Endangered Languages: an introduction. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 34(4), 313-316. link
  26. Austin, Peter K. 2013. Language documentation and meta-documentation. In Mari Jones & Sarah Ogilvie (eds.) Keeping Languages Alive: Documentation, Pedagogy and Revitalization, 3-15. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. download
  27. Austin, Peter K. 2013. Tense, aspect, mood and evidentiality in Sasak, eastern Indonesia. In John Bowden (ed.) Tense, aspect, mood and evidentiality in languages of Indonesia. Nusa 55, 41-56. link
  28. Austin, Peter K. 2012. Too many nasal verbs: dialect variation in the voice system of Sasak. In Alexander K. Adelaar (ed.) Voice variation in Austronesian languages of Indonesia. Nusa 54, 29-46. link
  29. Austin, Peter K. 2012. Tense, aspect, mood and evidentiality in Sasak, eastern Indonesia. In Stuart McGill & Peter K. Austin (eds.) Language Documentation and Description 11, 231-251. link
  30. Austin, Peter K. 2012. Language documentation. Oxford Bibliographies online. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  31. Austin, Peter K. & Julia Sallabank. (eds.) 2011. The Cambridge Handbook of Endangered Languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. purchase link
  32. Austin, Peter K. & Stuart McGill. (eds.) 2011. Critical Concepts in Linguistics: Endangered Languages. London: Routledge.
  33. Peter K. Austin, Oliver Bond, Lutz Marten & David Nathan. (eds.) 2011. Proceedings of the Conference on Language Documentation and Linguistic Theory 3. London: SOAS. download
  34. Austin, Peter K. 2010. Reading the lontars: endangered literary practices of Lombok, eastern Indonesia. In Mark Turin & Imogen Gunn (eds.) Language Documentation and Description 8, 27-48. London: SOAS. link
  35. Austin, Peter K. 2010. Editor’s Preface and List of Contributors (LDD 7). Language Documentation and Description 7, 5-11. London: SOAS. link
  36. Austin, Peter K. 2010. Current issues in language documentation. Language Documentation and Description 7, 12-33. link
  37. Austin, Peter K. 2010. Communities, ethics and rights in language documentation. Language Documentation and Description 7, 34-54. link
  38. Austin, Peter K. 2010. Applying for a language documentation research grant. Language Documentation and Description 7, 285-299. link
  39. Peter K. Austin, Oliver Bond, Monik Charette, David Nathan & Peter Sells. (eds.) 2009. Proceedings of the Conference on Language Documentation and Linguistic Theory 2. London: SOAS. download
  40. Austin, Peter K. 2009. Editor’s Preface and List of Contributors (LDD 6). Language Documentation and Description 6, 5-10. London: SOAS. link
  41. Dobrin, Lise, Peter K. Austin & David Nathan. 2009. Dying to be counted: the commodification of endangered languages in language documentation. Language Documentation and Description 6, 37-52. link
  42. Austin, Peter K. (ed.) 2008. 1,000 Languages. London: Thames and Hudson and Berkeley: University of California Press (also translated into German, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, Rumanian, Estonian, Japanese) purchase link
  43. Austin, Peter K. 2008. Training for language documentation: Experiences at the School of Oriental and African Studies. In Margaret Florey & Victoria Rau (eds.) Documenting and Revitalising Austronesian Languages, 25-41. Language Documentation and Conservation Special Publication No. 1. Hawaii: University of Hawaii Press. link
  44. Austin, Peter K. 2008. The classification of Pinikura, Western Australia. In Claire Bowern, Bethwyn Evans & Luisa Micelli (eds.) Morphology and Language History: In honour of Harold Koch, 31-41. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
  45. Austin, Peter K. 2008. The Gamilaraay (Kamilaroi) Language, northern New South Wales — A Brief History of Research. In William McGregor (ed.) Encountering Aboriginal languages: studies in the history of Australian linguistics, 37-58. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. link
  46. Austin, Peter K. & Simon Musgrave. (eds.) 2008. Voice and Grammatical Relations in Austronesian Languages. Stanford: CSLI Publications. purchase link
  47. Austin, Peter K. 2008. Editor’s Preface and List of Contributors (LDD 5). Language Documentation and Description 5, 5-12. London: SOAS. link
  48. Austin, Peter K. 2007. Editor’s Preface and List of Contributors (LDD 4). Language Documentation and Description 4, 5-11. London: SOAS. link
  49. Austin, Peter K. & Lenore A. Grenoble. 2007. Current trends in language documentation. Language Documentation and Description 4, 12-25. link
  50. Austin, Peter K. & Andrew Simpson. 2007. Introduction. Linguistische Berichte Sonderheft 14, 5-18. link
  51. Margetts, Anna & Peter K. Austin. 2007. Three participant events in the languages of the world: towards a cross-linguistic typology. Linguistics 45, 393-451. link
  52. Austin, Peter K. 2007. Survival of Languages. In Emily F. Shuckburgh (ed.) Survival: The Survival of the Human Race, 72-88. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  53. Dobrin, Lise, Peter K. Austin & David Nathan. 2007. Dying to be counted: commodification of endangered languages. In Peter K. Austin, Oliver Bond and David Nathan (eds.) Proceedings of Conference on Language Documentation and Linguistic Theory, 59-68. London: SOAS. download
  54. Austin, Peter K., Oliver Bond & David Nathan. (eds.) 2007. Proceedings of Conference on Language Documentation and Linguistic Theory. London: SOAS. download
  55. Austin, Peter K. & Andrew Simpson. (eds.) 2007. Endangered Languages. Linguistische Berichte Sonderhefte 14. Hamburg: Helmut Buske Verlag. purchase link
  56. Austin, Peter K. 2006. Content questions in Sasak, eastern Indonesia: an optimality theoretic syntax account. In Fritz Schulze & Holger Warnk (eds.) Insular Southeast Asia: Linguistic and Cultural Studies in Honour of Bernd Nothofer, 1-12. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag.
  57. Austin, Peter K. 2006. Data and language documentation. In Jost Gippert, Nikolaus Himmelmann & Ulrike Mosel (eds.) Essentials of Language Documentation, 87-112. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. download
  58. Austin, Peter K. 2006. Article 5042 Languages of the World: Jiwarli. In Keith Brown (ed.) International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 125-129. 2nd edition. Elsevier.
  59. Austin, Peter K. 2006. Australia: Language Situation. In Keith Brown (ed.) International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 580-585. 2nd edition. Elsevier.
  60. Austin, Peter K. 2006. Gamilaraay. In Keith Brown (ed.) International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 724-727. 2nd edition. Elsevier.
  61. Austin, Peter & Terry Crowley. 2005. Interpreting old spelling. In Nicholas Thieberger (ed.) Paper and Talk: A Manual for Reconstituting Materials in Australian Indigenous Languages from Historical Sources, 53-102. 2nd edition. Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press. download
  62. Austin, Peter K. 2005. Editor’s Preface and List of Contributors (LDD 3). Language Documentation and Description 3, 5-11. London: SOAS. link
  63. Austin, Peter K. 2004. Editor’s Preface and List of Contributors (LDD 2). Language Documentation and Description 2, 3-8. London: SOAS. link
  64. Nathan, David & Peter K. Austin. 2004. Reconceiving metadata: language documentation through thick and thin. Language Documentation and Description 2, 179-187. London: SOAS. link
  65. Austin, Peter K. 2004. Les clitiques du sasak (Indonésie de l’est). Faits de Langues 23-24, 195-212. link
  66. Austin, Peter K. & Luise Hercus. 2004. The Yarli languages. In Claire Bowern & Harold Koch (eds.) Subgrouping and Australian Languages, 227-244. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
  67. Austin, Peter. 2004. Chapter 136 Diyari (Pama-Nyungan). In Geert Booij, Christian Lehmann, & Joachim Mugdan (eds.) Morphology: A Handbook on Inflection and Word Formation, 1490-1500. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.
  68. Austin, Peter K. 2003. The Linguistic Ecology of Lombok. PELBBA 16, 165-198. link
  69. Austin, Peter K. 2003. Editor’s Preface and List of Contributors (LDD 1). Language Documentation and Description 1, 3-4. London: SOAS. link
  70. Austin, Peter K. 2002. Ken Hale and Australian Aboriginal languages. Linguistic Typology 6(2), 151-153. link
  71. Austin, Peter K. 2001. Zero arguments in Jiwarli, Western Australia. Australian Journal of Linguistics 21(1), 83-98. link
  72. Austin, Peter K. 2001. Word order in a free word order language: the case of Jiwarli. In Jane Simpson, David Nash, Mary Laughren, Peter Austin, Barry Alpher (eds.) Forty years on: Ken Hale and Australian languages, 205-323. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
  73. Austin, Peter K. 2001. Verbs, valence and voice in Balinese, Sasak and Sumbawan. In Peter K. Austin, Barry Blake & Margaret Florey (eds.) Valence mechanisms in Indonesia, 47-71. Melbourne: La Trobe University. download
  74. Austin, Peter K. 2001. Lexical Functional Grammar. In N.J. Smelser & P. Baltes (eds.) International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioural Sciences, 8748-8754. Berlin: Elsevier.
  75. Simpson, Jane, David Nash, Mary Laughren, Peter K. Austin & Barry Alpher. (eds.) 2001. Forty years on: Ken Hale and Australian Aboriginal languages. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. download
  76. Austin, Peter K., Barry J. Blake & Margaret Florey (eds.) 2001. Valence mechanisms in Austronesian languages. La Trobe University.
  77. Austin, Peter K. (ed.) 2000. Working Papers in Sasak, Volume 2. University of Melbourne.
  78. Austin, Peter K. 2000. Verbs, valence and voice in Sasak. In Peter K. Austin (ed.) Working Papers in Sasak, Vol 2, 5-23. Melbourne: La Trobe University.
  79. Austin, Peter K. (ed.) 1998. Working Papers in Sasak, Volume 1. University of Melbourne.
  80. Austin, Peter K. 1998. Temporal reference, tense and aspect in Australian Aboriginal languages. In Yasuhiko Nagano Jikan to kotoba: Time and Language, 143-­169. Senri Ethnological Studies 45. Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology. download
  81. Austin, Peter K. 1998. Crow is sitting chasing them: grammaticization and the verb ‘to sit’ in Mantharta languages, Western Australia. In Anna Siewierska & Jae Jung Song (eds.) Case, typology and grammar: in honour of Barry J. Blake, 19-36. Typological Studies in Language 38. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
  82. Austin, Peter K. 1997. Proto-central New South Wales. In Darrel Tryon & Michael Walsh (eds.) Boundary rider: Essays in honour of Geoffrey O’Grady, 21-49. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics C-136. download
  83. Austin, Peter K. 1997. Causatives and applicatives in Australian Aboriginal Languages. In Kazuto Matsumura & Tooru Hayasi (eds.) The Dative and Related Phenomena, 165-225. Tokyo: Hituzi Syobo.
  84. Austin, Peter, 1997. Texts in the Mantharta Languages, Western Australia. Tokyo: ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.
  85. Austin, Peter. 1996. Part 2/5 Australia. In Bernard Comrie, Stephen Matthews & Maria Polinsky (eds.) The Atlas of Languages, 110-125. London: Quarto.
  86. Austin, Peter. 1996. Ergativity, clitics and grammatical relations in Sasak. In Miriam Butt & Tracy Holloway King (eds.) LFG-Workshop, 45-59. Stanford: Stanford University.
  87. Austin, Peter & Joan Bresnan. 1996. Non-configurationality in Australian Aboriginal languages. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 14, 215-268. link
  88. Austin, Peter. 1995. Double case marking in Kanyara and Mantharta languages, Western Australia. In Frans Plank (ed.) Agreement by Suffixaufnahme, 363-379. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  89. Austin, Peter & Terry Crowley. 1995. Interpreting old spelling. In Nicholas Thieberger (ed.) Paper and Talk: A Manual for Reconstituting Materials in Australian Indigenous Languages from Historical Sources, 53-102. Canberra: AIATSIS.
  90. Austin, Peter, R.M.W. Dixon, Tom Dutton & Isobel White (eds.) 1990. Language and History: essays in honour of Luise Hercus, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. download
  91. Austin, Peter. 1993. Obituary of William (‘Bill’) Reid. Australian Aboriginal Studies 1993/2: 133-134.
  92. Nathan, David & Peter Austin. 1992. Finderlists, computer-generated, for bilingual dictionaries. International Journal of Lexicography 5(1), 32-65. link
  93. Austin, Peter. 1991. The Karangura language. Records of the South Australian Museum 25(2), 129-137. link
  94. Austin, Peter. 1991. Double case marking in Kanyara and Mantharta languages, Western Australia. La Trobe University Working Papers in Linguistics 4, 19-35. link
  95. Austin, Peter. 1990. Classification of Lake Eyre languages. La Trobe University Working Papers in Linguistics 3, 171-201. link
  96. Nathan, David & Peter Austin. 1989. Finderlists, computer-generated, for bilingual dictionaries. La Trobe University Working Papers in Linguistics 2, 159-189. link
  97. Austin, Peter. 1990. The last words of Pirlatapa. In Peter Austin, R.M.W. Dixon, Tom Dutton and Isobel White (eds.) Language and history: essays in honour of Luise A. Hercus, 29-48. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, C-1 16. link
  98. Austin, Peter. 1989. Verb compounding in central Australian languages. La Trobe University Working Papers in Linguistics 2, 43-71. link
  99. Austin, Peter, Luise A. Hercus & Phillip Jones. 1988. ‘Ben Murray Parlku-Nguyu-Tangkayiwarna’. Aboriginal History 12, 115-188. link
  100. Austin, Peter. 1988. Trill-released stops and language change in central Australia. Australian Journal of Linguistics 8(2), 219-245.
  101. Austin, Peter. 1988. Phonological voicing contrasts in Australian Aboriginal Languages. La Trobe University Working Papers in Linguistics 1, 17-42. link
  102. Austin, Peter. 1988. Aboriginal languages of the Gascoyne-Ashburton region. La Trobe University Working Papers in Linguistics 1, 43-63. link
  103. Austin, Peter. 1988. Classification of southern Pilbara languages. Papers in Australian linguistics, No 17, 1-17. link
  104. Austin, Peter (ed.) 1988. Complex sentence constructions in Australian languages, Amsterdam: John Benjamins. purchase link
  105. Austin, Peter. 1988. Introduction. In Peter Austin (ed.) Complex sentence constructions in Australian Aboriginal languages, 3-6. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
  106. Austin, Peter. 1987. Word order and clause combining in Gascoyne-Ashburton languages. In Scott DeLancy & Russell Tomlin (eds.) Proceedings of the Third Annual Meeting of the Pacific Linguistics Conference, 1-11. Eugene, Oregon: University of Oregon.
  107. Austin, Peter. 1986. Afghan story. In Luise A. Hercus & Peter Sutton (eds.) This is what happened, 129-132. Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies.
  108. Austin, Peter. 1986. Paradise crossing. Luise A. Hercus & Peter Sutton (eds.) This is what happened, 293-296. Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies.
  109. Austin, Peter & Norman B. Tindale. 1986. Emu and brolga, a Kamilaroi myth. Aboriginal History 9, 8-21. link
  110. Austin, Peter & Jack Butler. 1986. The earthquake and Halley’s comet. Aboriginal History 10, 79-88. link
  111. Austin, Peter. 1986. Structural change in language obsolescence: some eastern Australian examples. Australian Journal of Linguistics 6(2), 201-230.
  112. Austin, Peter. 1986. Diyari language postcards and Diyari literacy. Aboriginal History 10, 175-190. link
  113. Austin, Peter. 1983. Southern Pilbara dictionaries. In Peter Austin (ed.) Papers in Australian linguistics No. 15: Australian Aboriginal lexicography, 1-17. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. download
  114. Austin, Peter. (ed.) 1983. Papers in Australian Linguistics No. 15: Australian Aboriginal Lexicography, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. download
  115. Austin, Peter. 1982. Transitivity and cognate objects in Australian languages. In Sandra A. Thompson & Paul Hopper (eds.) Syntax and semantics Volume 15: Studies in transitivity, 37-47. New York: Academic Press. link
  116. Austin, Peter. 1982. The deictic system of Diyari. In Jurgen Weissenborn & Wolfgang Klein (eds.) Here and there: cross-linguistic studies on deixis and demonstration, 273-284. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. link
  117. Austin, Peter. 1981. Case marking and clausal binding: evidence from Dhalandji. In Randal A. Hendrik, C. S. Masek & M. F. Miller (eds.) Papers from the 17th regional meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, 1-7. Chicago: Chicago Linguistics Society
  118. Austin, Peter. 1981. A grammar of Diyari, South Australia, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  119. Austin, Peter. 1981. Switch-reference in Australia. Language 57, 309-334. link
  120. Austin, Peter. 1981. Proto-Kanyara and proto-Mantharta historical phonology. Lingua 54, 41-77. link
  121. Austin, Peter. 1981. Case marking in southern Pilbara languages. Australian Journal of Linguistics 1(2), 211-226.
  122. Murray, Ben & Peter Austin. 1981. Afghans and Aborigines: Diyari texts. Aboriginal History 5, 71-79. link
  123. Austin, Peter, Corinne Williams & Stephen A. Wurm. 1980. The linguistic situation in north central New South Wales. In Bruce Rigsby & Peter Sutton (eds.) Papers in Australian linguistics No. 13: Contributions of Australian linguistics, 167-180. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. download
  124. Austin, Peter. 1979. Switch-reference in Australian languages. In Pamela Munro (ed.) Studies of switch-reference, UCLA Papers in Syntax 8, 7-47.
  125. Austin, Peter. 1976. Dhirari. In R.M.W. Dixon (ed.) Grammatical categories in Australian languages, 757-763. Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies.
  126. Austin, Peter, Robert Ellis & Luise A. Hercus. 1976. Fruit of the eyes: semantic diffusion in the Lakes languages of South Australia. Papers in Australian Linguistics 10, 57-77. link