Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0878622

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP0878622

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

The world through the prism of language: a cross-linguistic view of genders, noun classes, and classifiers. Australia is one of the most multilingual and multicultural countries in the world, with several hundred indigenous and immigrant languages. Noun classification devices - ranging from gender systems in familiar Indo-European languages to numeral classifiers in Southeast Asian languages - offer a unique insight into people's categorisation of the world around them. In-depth knowledge of how speakers of different languages classify objects around them will promote intercultural understanding within Australia and world-wide, allowing us to overcome potential miscommunications due to different language backgrounds, and advancing our understanding of the region and the world (within the National Priority 'Safeguarding Australia').

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 2008

End Date: 12-2014

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $505,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Language Studies | Language Studies Not Elsewhere Classified | Comparative Language Studies |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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