David Bradley is a linguist who specializes in the Tibeto-Burman languages of Southeast Asia. Born in the United States, Bradley was educated at the SOAS, University of London. He has spent most of his career in Australia and is currently a professor at La Trobe University. Bradley has been an invited lecturer and keynote speaker many times and throughout the world, in particular the Himalayan Languages Symposium and the International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics.
D Bradley, R D Sussex & G K Scott Studies in Australian English. Bundoora: Department of Linguistics, La Trobe University for the Australian Linguistic Society 1989
D Bradley, P Lewis, C Court & N Jarkey. Thailand Hill Tribes Phrasebook. Melbourne: Lonely Planet 1991
Country Education Profiles: Myanmar. Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service 1992
A Dictionary of the Northern Dialect of Lisu. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics C-126 1994
Bradley, David. Studies in Burmese Languages. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics A-83.
Bradley, David 'Phonological convergence between languages in contact: Mon-Khmer structural borrowing in Burmese' Berkeley Linguistics Society 6: 259-26
Bradley, David 'Identity: the persistence of minority groups' In J McKinnon and W Bhruksasri Highlanders of Thailand, 46-55. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press 1983; paperback edition 1986
'Traditional minorities and language education in Thailand' In Bradley, 87-102 1985
M Bradley & D Bradley 'Asian students' comprehension of Australian English' In M G Clyne Australia, Meeting Place of Languages. Pacific Linguistics C-92, 171-181 1985
'Language planning for China's minorities: the Yi branch' In D C Laycock and W Winter A World of Language: papers presented to Professor S. A. Wurm on his 65th birthday. Pacific Linguistics C-100, 81-89 1987
Bradley, David . 'The disappearance of the Ugong in Thailand' In N C Dorian Investigating Obsolescence, 33-40. Cambridge: Cambridge U. Press.
Bradley, David 'Regional dialects in Australian English phonology' In P Collins & D Blair Australian English: the language of a new society. St. Lucia: U. of Queensland Press 260-270
Bradley, David 'Uncles and aunts: Burmese kinship and gender' In J H C S Davison Festschrift for E. J. A. Henderson, 147-162. London: School of Oriental and African Studies 1989
Bradley, David English Around the World: sociolinguistic perspectives, 227-234. Cambridge: Cambridge U. Press 1991
Bradley, David 'Chinese as a pluricentric language' In M G Clyne Pluricentric Languages, 305-324. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter 1991
'Building identity and the modernisation of language: minority language policy in Thailand and China' In A. Gomes Modernity and Identity: Asian Illustrations, 192-205. Bundoora: Institute of Asian Studies, La Trobe University for Asian Studies Association of Australia 1994
Minority language policy and endangered languages in China and Southeast Asia. In K. Matsumura Studies in Endangered Languages, 49-83. Tokyo: Hituzi Syobo 1998
D. Bradley & M. Bradley Changing attitudes to Australian English. In D. Blair & P. Collins English in Australia, 271-285. Amsterdam: Benjamins 2001
"Language Policy for the Yi." In Stevan Harrell Perspectives on the Yi of Southwest China, 195-214. Berkeley: University of California Press 2001; Chinese translation appeared in Bamo Ayi Papers in Yi Studies, 107-133. Kunming: Yunnan Agricultural Press 2000
Counting the family: family group classifiers in Yi Branch languages. Anthropological
"Attitudes to languages: the key factor in language endangerment." In O. Sakiyama Lectures on Endangered Languages 2: 151-161. Endangered Languages of the Pacific Rim Series C002. Kyoto: Nakanishi 2001.
"Tibeto-Burman lexicography." In R. Job et al. Lexikographie. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter to appear 2002
Sociolinguistics in Southeast Asia. In P. Trudgill et al. Soziolinguistik. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter to appear 2002
"Southeast and East Asia." In M. Brenzinger Language Diversity Endangered.'' Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter to appear 2002
