Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0208153

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0208153

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Linguistic Typology and the Demise of Morphological Case: The Development of the Genitive in the Germanic Languages. This project will investigate how changes to the case marking systems of the Germanic languages affected the expression of the relationships originally encoded by genitive case. New data will be gathered concerning changes in Dutch and English. The investigation will then be extended to the other Germanic languages. A primary aim of the project is to present a case study of how closely related languages can diverge significantly while undergoing a similar shift from one overall ?type? to another, adding to our understanding of what sort of changes the human language capability allows in the transmission of language across generations.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2002

End Date: 31-12-2004

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $95,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Linguistics | Language In Time And Space (Incl. Historical Linguistics, Dialectology)

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Other Keywords

Language In Time And Space (Incl. Historical Linguistics, Dialectology) | Languages and Literature | Linguistics

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