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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP200101079
Funding Status
Active
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Funded Activity Summary
Landscape, language and culture in Indigenous Australia. This project aims to determine how culture and social diversity interact with landscape in representing physical space in the minds and grammars of speakers of Australian Indigenous languages. The project will conduct the first Australia-wide survey of Indigenous spatial description correlated with landscape, and the first large-scale investigation of diversity in spatial behaviour among individuals within communities. The findings are expected to inform crucial debates on the formative role of landscape in language, and advance our knowledge of human spatial cognition. It will collect completely new experimental and natural data in six endangered languages, with significant benefits for the maintenance of Indigenous languages and cultures.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 2021
End Date: 05-2025
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $445,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Linguistics not elsewhere classified | Linguistics | Linguistic Structures (incl. Grammar, Phonology, Lexicon, Semantics) | Language in Time and Space (incl. Historical Linguistics, Dialectology) |
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Conserving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage | Communication Across Languages and Culture | Expanding Knowledge in Language, Communication and Culture
