Research Grant
[Cite as https://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP0210083]Researchers: Prof William Foley (Chief Investigator)
Brief description Papuan Descriptive Linguistics of the West Sepik Region. The New Guinea area has an exceptional, but very poorly understood linguistic diversity, over 1000 languages belonging to many unrelated families. This project will fill in gaps through on site fieldwork in Sandaun (West Sepik) Province, linguistically the most genetically diverse and least known province in all of Papua New Guinea. The grammatical descriptions resulting will enrich our understanding of linguistic variation, not only in New Guinea, but in the world as a whole.
Funding Amount $89,000
Funding Scheme Discovery Projects
- PURL : https://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP0210083
- ARC : DP0210083