Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DE120101954
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Discovering Trans-New Guinea: revealing the prehistory of New Guinea. The third largest language family in the world is Trans-New Guinea spoken throughout New Guinea. The origins of this family are unknown. This project will uncover the history of these peoples by applying computational phylogenetic methods to data from these languages, leading to a deeper understanding of human prehistory in the Pacific.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 06-2012
End Date: 07-2016
Funding Scheme: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award
Funding Amount: $375,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Linguistics not elsewhere classified | Phylogeny and Comparative Analysis | Pacific Languages | Evolutionary Biology
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society | Expanding Knowledge in History and Archaeology | Expanding Knowledge in Language, Communication and Culture |
