Research Grant
[Cite as https://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP140100863]Researchers: Mark Harvey (Chief Investigator) , Robert Mailhammer (Chief Investigator) , ARC Linkage Grant LP1701000985 (Funded by)
Brief description 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.
Funding Amount $276,000
Funding Scheme Discovery Projects
- PURL : https://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP140100863
- ARC : DP140100863