Published books and articles

  1. Austin, Peter K. 2026. Adding value to legacy linguistic fieldnotes: an Australian case study. In Amir, A., & Winstanley, B. (Eds.) SOAS Working Papers in Linguistics Volume 23, 91-113. SOAS, University of London. link
  2. 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
  3. Austin, Peter K. 2024. Models and methods in linguistic fieldwork: a case study in reflexive meta-documentation. Ethnorema 20, 1-15. link
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. Austin, Peter K. 2021. Corpora and archiving in language documentation, description, and revitalisation. Ethnorema 17, 53-65. link
  9. 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
  10. Austin, Peter K. & Stefanie Pillai. 2020. Language description, documentation and revitalisation of languages in Malaysia. Journal of Modern Languages 30(1), 1-5. link
  11. Austin, Peter K. 2020. Front matter. Language Documentation and Description 17, i-v. London: EL Publishing. link
  12. Austin, Peter K. 2020. Language documentation and revitalisation. In Justyna Olko & Julia Sallabank (eds.) Revitalizing endangered languages: a practical guide, 199-212. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. download
  13. 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
  14. 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
  15. Austin, Peter K., Harold Koch & Jane Simpson. (eds.) 2018. Language, Land and Song in Aboriginal Australia. Second edition. Darwin: Batchelor Institute Press. purchase link
  16. Austin, Peter K. 2017. Language documentation and legacy text materials. Asian and African Languages and Linguistics 11, 23-44. link
  17. Austin, Peter K., Harold Koch & Jane Simpson. (eds.) 2016. Language, Land and Song in Aboriginal Australia. London: EL Publishing. download
  18. 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
  19. 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
  20. Peter K. 2014. And still they speak Diyari: the life history of an endangered language. Ethnorema 10, 1-17. link
  21. Austin, Peter K. 2014. Language documentation in the 21st century. JournaLIPP 3, 57-71. link
  22. Austin, Peter K. & Julia Sallabank. (eds.) 2014. Endangered Languages. Beliefs and Ideologies in Language Documentation and Revitalisation. London: British Academy. purchase link
  23. 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
  24. 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
  25. 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
  26. Austin, Peter K. & Julia Sallabank. 2013. Editorial. Endangered Languages: an introduction. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 34(4), 313-316. link
  27. 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
  28. 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
  29. 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
  30. 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
  31. Austin, Peter K. 2012. Language documentation. Oxford Bibliographies online. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  32. Austin, Peter K. & Julia Sallabank. (eds.) 2011. The Cambridge Handbook of Endangered Languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. purchase link
  33. Austin, Peter K. & Stuart McGill. (eds.) 2011. Critical Concepts in Linguistics: Endangered Languages. London: Routledge.
  34. 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
  35. 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
  36. Austin, Peter K. 2010. Editor’s Preface and List of Contributors (LDD 7). Language Documentation and Description 7, 5-11. London: SOAS. link
  37. Austin, Peter K. 2010. Current issues in language documentation. Language Documentation and Description 7, 12-33. link
  38. Austin, Peter K. 2010. Communities, ethics and rights in language documentation. Language Documentation and Description 7, 34-54. link
  39. Austin, Peter K. 2010. Applying for a language documentation research grant. Language Documentation and Description 7, 285-299. link
  40. 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
  41. Austin, Peter K. 2009. Editor’s Preface and List of Contributors (LDD 6). Language Documentation and Description 6, 5-10. London: SOAS. link
  42. 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
  43. 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
  44. 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
  45. 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.
  46. 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
  47. Austin, Peter K. & Simon Musgrave. (eds.) 2008. Voice and Grammatical Relations in Austronesian Languages. Stanford: CSLI Publications. purchase link
  48. Austin, Peter K. 2008. Editor’s Preface and List of Contributors (LDD 5). Language Documentation and Description 5, 5-12. London: SOAS. link
  49. Austin, Peter K. 2007. Editor’s Preface and List of Contributors (LDD 4). Language Documentation and Description 4, 5-11. London: SOAS. link
  50. Austin, Peter K. & Lenore A. Grenoble. 2007. Current trends in language documentation. Language Documentation and Description 4, 12-25. link
  51. Austin, Peter K. & Andrew Simpson. 2007. Introduction. Linguistische Berichte Sonderheft 14, 5-18. link
  52. 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
  53. 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.
  54. 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
  55. Austin, Peter K., Oliver Bond & David Nathan. (eds.) 2007. Proceedings of Conference on Language Documentation and Linguistic Theory. London: SOAS. download
  56. Austin, Peter K. & Andrew Simpson. (eds.) 2007. Endangered Languages. Linguistische Berichte Sonderhefte 14. Hamburg: Helmut Buske Verlag. purchase link
  57. 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.
  58. 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
  59. 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.
  60. Austin, Peter K. 2006. Australia: Language Situation. In Keith Brown (ed.) International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 580-585. 2nd edition. Elsevier.
  61. Austin, Peter K. 2006. Gamilaraay. In Keith Brown (ed.) International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 724-727. 2nd edition. Elsevier.
  62. 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
  63. Austin, Peter K. 2005. Editor’s Preface and List of Contributors (LDD 3). Language Documentation and Description 3, 5-11. London: SOAS. link
  64. Austin, Peter K. 2004. Editor’s Preface and List of Contributors (LDD 2). Language Documentation and Description 2, 3-8. London: SOAS. link
  65. Nathan, David & Peter K. Austin. 2004. Reconceiving metadata: language documentation through thick and thin. Language Documentation and Description 2, 179-187. London: SOAS. link
  66. Austin, Peter K. 2004. Les clitiques du sasak (Indonésie de l’est). Faits de Langues 23-24, 195-212. link
  67. Austin, Peter K. & Luise Hercus. 2004. The Yarli languages. In Claire Bowern & Harold Koch (eds.) Subgrouping and Australian Languages, 227-244. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
  68. 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.
  69. Austin, Peter K. 2003. The Linguistic Ecology of Lombok. PELBBA 16, 165-198. link
  70. Austin, Peter K. 2003. Editor’s Preface and List of Contributors (LDD 1). Language Documentation and Description 1, 3-4. London: SOAS. link
  71. Austin, Peter K. 2002. Ken Hale and Australian Aboriginal languages. Linguistic Typology 6(2), 151-153. link
  72. Austin, Peter K. 2001. Zero arguments in Jiwarli, Western Australia. Australian Journal of Linguistics 21(1), 83-98. link
  73. 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.
  74. 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
  75. 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.
  76. 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
  77. Austin, Peter K., Barry J. Blake & Margaret Florey (eds.) 2001. Valence mechanisms in Austronesian languages. La Trobe University.
  78. Austin, Peter K. (ed.) 2000. Working Papers in Sasak, Volume 2. University of Melbourne.
  79. 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.
  80. Austin, Peter K. (ed.) 1998. Working Papers in Sasak, Volume 1. University of Melbourne.
  81. 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
  82. 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.
  83. 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
  84. 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.
  85. Austin, Peter, 1997. Texts in the Mantharta Languages, Western Australia. Tokyo: ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.
  86. Austin, Peter. 1996. Part 2/5 Australia. In Bernard Comrie, Stephen Matthews & Maria Polinsky (eds.) The Atlas of Languages, 110-125. London: Quarto.
  87. Austin, Peter. 1996. Ergativity, clitics and grammatical relations in Sasak. In Miriam Butt & Tracy Holloway King (eds.) LFG-Workshop, 45-59. Stanford: Stanford University.
  88. Austin, Peter & Joan Bresnan. 1996. Non-configurationality in Australian Aboriginal languages. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 14, 215-268. link
  89. 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.
  90. 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.
  91. 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
  92. Austin, Peter. 1993. Obituary of William (‘Bill’) Reid. Australian Aboriginal Studies 1993/2: 133-134.
  93. Nathan, David & Peter Austin. 1992. Finderlists, computer-generated, for bilingual dictionaries. International Journal of Lexicography 5(1), 32-65. link
  94. Austin, Peter. 1991. The Karangura language. Records of the South Australian Museum 25(2), 129-137. link
  95. Austin, Peter. 1991. Double case marking in Kanyara and Mantharta languages, Western Australia. La Trobe University Working Papers in Linguistics 4, 19-35. link
  96. Austin, Peter. 1990. Classification of Lake Eyre languages. La Trobe University Working Papers in Linguistics 3, 171-201. link
  97. Nathan, David & Peter Austin. 1989. Finderlists, computer-generated, for bilingual dictionaries. La Trobe University Working Papers in Linguistics 2, 159-189. link
  98. 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
  99. Austin, Peter. 1989. Verb compounding in central Australian languages. La Trobe University Working Papers in Linguistics 2, 43-71. link
  100. Austin, Peter, Luise A. Hercus & Phillip Jones. 1988. ‘Ben Murray Parlku-Nguyu-Tangkayiwarna’. Aboriginal History 12, 115-188. link
  101. Austin, Peter. 1988. Trill-released stops and language change in central Australia. Australian Journal of Linguistics 8(2), 219-245.
  102. Austin, Peter. 1988. Phonological voicing contrasts in Australian Aboriginal Languages. La Trobe University Working Papers in Linguistics 1, 17-42. link
  103. Austin, Peter. 1988. Aboriginal languages of the Gascoyne-Ashburton region. La Trobe University Working Papers in Linguistics 1, 43-63. link
  104. Austin, Peter. 1988. Classification of southern Pilbara languages. Papers in Australian linguistics, No 17, 1-17. link
  105. Austin, Peter (ed.) 1988. Complex sentence constructions in Australian languages, Amsterdam: John Benjamins. purchase link
  106. Austin, Peter. 1988. Introduction. In Peter Austin (ed.) Complex sentence constructions in Australian Aboriginal languages, 3-6. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
  107. 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.
  108. Austin, Peter. 1986. Afghan story. In Luise A. Hercus & Peter Sutton (eds.) This is what happened, 129-132. Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies.
  109. Austin, Peter. 1986. Paradise crossing. Luise A. Hercus & Peter Sutton (eds.) This is what happened, 293-296. Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies.
  110. Austin, Peter & Norman B. Tindale. 1986. Emu and brolga, a Kamilaroi myth. Aboriginal History 9, 8-21. link
  111. Austin, Peter & Jack Butler. 1986. The earthquake and Halley’s comet. Aboriginal History 10, 79-88. link
  112. Austin, Peter. 1986. Structural change in language obsolescence: some eastern Australian examples. Australian Journal of Linguistics 6(2), 201-230.
  113. Austin, Peter. 1986. Diyari language postcards and Diyari literacy. Aboriginal History 10, 175-190. link
  114. 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
  115. Austin, Peter. (ed.) 1983. Papers in Australian Linguistics No. 15: Australian Aboriginal Lexicography, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. download
  116. 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
  117. 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
  118. 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
  119. Austin, Peter. 1981. A grammar of Diyari, South Australia, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  120. Austin, Peter. 1981. Switch-reference in Australia. Language 57, 309-334. link
  121. Austin, Peter. 1981. Proto-Kanyara and proto-Mantharta historical phonology. Lingua 54, 41-77. link
  122. Austin, Peter. 1981. Case marking in southern Pilbara languages. Australian Journal of Linguistics 1(2), 211-226.
  123. Murray, Ben & Peter Austin. 1981. Afghans and Aborigines: Diyari texts. Aboriginal History 5, 71-79. link
  124. 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
  125. Austin, Peter. 1979. Switch-reference in Australian languages. In Pamela Munro (ed.) Studies of switch-reference, UCLA Papers in Syntax 8, 7-47.
  126. Austin, Peter. 1976. Dhirari. In R.M.W. Dixon (ed.) Grammatical categories in Australian languages, 757-763. Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies.
  127. 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