Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0343678

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0343678

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Proto Oceanic Language, culture and environment: Foundations of the Austronesian settlement of the Pacific. The project aims to reconstruct the lexicon of Proto Oceanic. Proto Oceanic was ancestral to most Austronesian languages of Melanesia, Polynesia and Micronesia. By paying attention to the semantics of terminologies, we expect to learn much about the culture, society and cosmology of Proto Oceanic speakers and their conception of and adaptation to the natural environment. The results will be presented in Volumes 3-5 of a five-volume series. Volume 1 was published in 1998; volume 2 is almost complete. This project will support fundamental research for volumes 3 (flora and fauna), 4 (people and society) and 5 (indices, etc).

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2003

End Date: 31-12-2007

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $270,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Linguistics | Lexicography | Linguistic Structures (Incl. Grammar, Phonology, Lexicon, Semantics) | 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) | Lexicography | Linguistic Structures (Incl. Grammar, Phonology, Lexicon, Semantics) | Linguistics | Understanding the Pasts of Other Societies

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