About
I am a linguist based at Mirima Dawang Woorlab- gerring Language and Culture Centre in Kununurra, Western Australia.
I also hold a position as an Adjunct Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia, Perth.
I completed my PhD in Linguistics in 2024 at the University of Western Australia. My thesis considered various tense/aspect markers in Australian Kriol, and how the semantics of these forms compare with the tense/aspect systems of source languages.
You can contact me at: connor.brown@uwa.edu.au and find out more about my work at my UWA profile, Google Scholar, and Research Gate.
My research focuses on meaning in language (semantics and pragmatics), and language contact. I am especially interested in the outcomes of language contact on the semantic/pragmatic domain, and semantic/pragmatic cross-linguistic variation. My research also focuses on the documentation and description of minoritized language varieties (particularly contact languages), methods in language revitalization, and language ecologies.
Since 2019, I have been working with speakers of Australian Kriol in the East Kimberley region of Northern Australia. More recently, I have also begun working with speakers of Miriwoong, a language spoken in the same region. Miriwoong is critically endangered, and most Miriwoong people now speak Kriol as their first language.
Last Updated April 2025.
Connor Brown - Linguist 