Interview: Peter Austin

Peter Austin is Emeritus Professor of Field Linguistics at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. At the time of this interview, he was Marit Rausing Professor of Field Linguistics and director of the Endangered Languages Academic Programme at SOAS.

Austin has conducted fieldwork with speakers of twelve endangered languages in Australia and elsewhere, and has published extensively on language documentation, description, and endangerment, as well as developing several bilingual dictionaries. He was co-founder (with David Nathan), and is now Associate Editor of the international peer-reviewed journal Language Documentation and Description, and has co-edited major reference works including The Cambridge Handbook of Endangered Languages. See peterkaustin.com for current projects and downloadable papers.

This interview with John Wynne was recorded in London in 2004.