Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0772046

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0772046

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Why and how do languages expand, coalesce or die? Lisu in China, Burma, Thailand and India. This project extends Australian leadership of international co-operation in language contact research. Practical outcomes include a pandialectal dictionary of Lisu and literary materials which provide in-depth background on the languages, cultures, religions and history of East, Southeast and South Asia. Like most nations, Australia has many indigenous and migrant languages which are under threat, many with dialect issues that further complicate the situation. The findings of this project may be directly applied for the maintenance and revitalisation of our indigenous languages, nearly all of which are now struggling for survival, and in similar efforts for migrant languages.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2007

End Date: 31-03-2011

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $192,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Linguistics | Lexicography | Language In Time And Space (Incl. Historical Linguistics, Dialectology) | Language In Culture And Society (Sociolinguistics)

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Other Keywords

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

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