Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP210102836
Funding Status
Active
Does something not look right? The information on this page has been harvested from data sources that may not be up to date. We continue to work with information providers to improve coverage and quality. To report an issue, use the Feedback Form.
Funded Activity Summary
How free is free?: word order in Australian Indigenous languages. This project aims to address the fundamental issue of how the grammatical structure of the language we speak shapes the way we plan and interpret sentences. The project will use innovative methodologies to investigate language production and comprehension in three Australian Indigenous languages that have unusually free word order, where the words in a sentence can be varied in multiple ways without changing the overall meaning. Expected outcomes include new knowledge of the relationship between language structure and human cognition, a deeper understanding of the grammatical structure of three Indigenous languages and how they differ from other languages, and important contributions to Indigenous language maintenance and education.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 04-2021
End Date: 03-2024
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $321,616.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Linguistics | Linguistic Structures (incl. Grammar, Phonology, Lexicon, Semantics) |
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Conserving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage | Expanding Knowledge in Psychology and Cognitive Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in Language, Communication and Culture
