Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE150101024

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DE150101024

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

High-definition carbon-dating of linguistic pasts. This project aims to harness the insights of dissipating information, to discover language histories by bringing together two high-definition technologies: powerful, computational statistical engines pioneered in genetics; and fine-grained, statistically optimised observations of language structure. It seeks new insight into how languages reveal history, and how cultural groups speaking the Uralic languages of Eurasia and Australian Aboriginal languages diverged, spread and interacted, from a distant past to the recent present.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 30-06-2015

End Date: 31-10-2018

Funding Scheme: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award

Funding Amount: $373,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

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

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Understanding Australia's Past | Expanding Knowledge in Language, Communication and Culture

Other Keywords

Expanding Knowledge in Language, Communication and Culture | Language in Time and Space (incl. Historical Linguistics, Dialectology) | Linguistic Structures (incl. Grammar, Phonology, Lexicon, Semantics) | Linguistics | Understanding Australia's Past

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