ARC Future Fellowships - Grant ID: FT200100188

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/FT200100188

Funding Status
Declined

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Funded Activity Summary

A fast comparative method for historical linguistics. Linguists are able to infer ancient histories of languages by a procedure known as the Comparative Method. Its results are used in related studies of human genetic and cultural change. However, the Comparative Method is a manual-only process and thus currently is a bottleneck for the science of unravelling the human past. This project aims to overcome this limitation and significantly accelerate linguistic discovery, by combining recent advances in computational language processing, statistics and cultural-evolutionary modelling. By producing innovative mathematical means for rapidly discovering ancient language relationships, it will enable a breakthrough in our capacity to uncover human linguistic, genetic and cultural heritage worldwide.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: Start date not available

End Date: End date not available

Funding Scheme: ARC Future Fellowships

Funding Amount: $950,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Applied Statistics | Linguistics | Linguistic Structures (incl. Grammar, Phonology, Lexicon, Semantics) | Language in Time and Space (incl. Historical Linguistics, Dialectology) |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge in the Mathematical Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in Language, Communication and Culture

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