Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP140100863

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP140100863

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Reconstructing Australia’s linguistic past: Are all Australian languages related to one another? This project addresses a central question about Australia’s past. Are all the languages of Australia related, deriving from a common source language: Proto-Australian. The project will examine the implications of a ‘yes’ or a ‘no’ answer for analyses of Australian prehistory, and for general analyses of human prehistory. The project involves extensive documentation of an endangered language Yanyuwa, because of the significance of Yanyuwa data in deciding between a ‘yes’ or a ‘no’ answer. The project will provide a descriptive grammar of Yanyuwa, a book evaluating the Proto-Australian hypothesis, and articles discussing the significance of the success or failure of the hypothesis for theories of the general human past.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 26-03-2014

End Date: 30-06-2019

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $276,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Linguistics | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Languages | Language in Time and Space (incl. Historical Linguistics, Dialectology)

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Understanding Australia's Past | Conserving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage |

Other Keywords

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Languages | Conserving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage | Language in Time and Space (incl. Historical Linguistics, Dialectology) | Linguistics | Understanding Australia's Past

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