Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0451969

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0451969

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

AUSTRALIAN ENGLISH GRAMMAR: a dialectal and stylistic description. Australian English has steadily evolved into a distinctive regional variety, with its own accent, lexicon and grammar. Yet the grammar has not been systematically described in terms of relative and/or absolute differences from British and American English. Just how Americanised is it? Does standard Australian English grammar embrace elements elsewhere considered "informal"? This project undertakes to research such questions by means of computer databases of written and spoken texts, and population surveys. The resulting Australian grammar will appear in an international series. The project's findings will have strategic value in smart information systems, for information delivery and automatic knowledge abstraction.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2004

End Date: 31-12-2006

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $180,000.00

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)

Information services not elsewhere classified |

Other Keywords

Communication Across Languages and Cultures | Information services not elsewhere classified | Language In Time And Space (Incl. Historical Linguistics, Dialectology) | Linguistic Structures (Incl. Grammar, Phonology, Lexicon, Semantics) | Linguistics

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