Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0210173

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0210173

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

A Typological Study of the Sound Systems of the New Guinea-Melanesia Area. This project aims to complete the first detailed cross-linguistic study of the sound systems of the New Guinea Melanesia area. More than one quarter of the world's languages are spoken in this region which remains very little known from a linguistics perspective. Results of this study should have important ramifications for our understanding of: (1) the nature of languages in the region, and of language in general (2) phonological description and theory (3) phonological description and theory (4) linguistic diffusion and influence in an area that extends from Eastern Timor to Vanuatu and New Caledonia.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2002

End Date: 31-12-2005

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $135,000.00

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) | Other Asian Languages

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Understanding other countries |

Other Keywords

Language In Time And Space (Incl. Historical Linguistics, Dialectology) | Languages and Literature | Linguistic Structures (Incl. Grammar, Phonology, Lexicon, Semantics) | Linguistics | Other Asian Languages | Understanding other countries

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