Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0663392

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0663392

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Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

The Semantics of Canonical Parallelism: Oral composition among Rotinese poets, eastern Indonesia. The pairing of words, known in linguistics as parallelism, is a critical feature of the oral traditions of the world. This strict use of couplets for oral compositions is a characteristic of the vibrant traditions of verbal communication on all the islands of eastern Indonesia. This project focuses on the oral traditions of the island of Roti, Australia's closest Indonesian neighbour. Using new analytic techniques applied to an extensive recorded corpus, it seeks to identify underlying mechanisms of verbal composition that may be applied comparatively to other oral traditions throughout the world, thus locating Australia at the forefront of the international study of oral traditions.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2006

End Date: 31-05-2010

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) | Linguistic Anthropology | Language In Culture And Society (Sociolinguistics)

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Studies in human society |

Other Keywords

Language In Culture And Society (Sociolinguistics) | Linguistic Anthropology | Linguistic Structures (Incl. Grammar, Phonology, Lexicon, Semantics) | Linguistics | Studies in human society

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