Prof John Hajek - Research projects
A Typological Study of the Sound Systems of the New Guinea-Melanesia Area
Category: 3802 - Linguistics
Administering Organisation: The University of Melbourne
2002: $35,000 2003: $50,000 2004: $50,000
Summary:This project aims to complete the first detailed cross-linguistic
study of the sound systems of the New Guinea Melanesia area. More than
one quarter of the world's languages are spoken in this region which remains
very little known from a linguistics perspective. Results of this study
should have important ramifications for our understanding of: (1) the
nature of languages in the region, and of language in general (2) phonological
description and theory (3) phonological description and theory (4) linguistic
diffusion and influence in an area that extends from Eastern Timor to
Vanuatu and New Caledonia.
http://www.arc.gov.au/pdf/2002_DP.pdf
Indigenous languages of eastern East Timor: description and contact studies
Category: 3802 - LINGUISTICS
DP0344100 Dr FJ Bowden and
Prof JT Hajek
Administering Institution: The Australian National University
2003 : $45,000 2004 : $35,000 2005 : $30,000
Summary: Both Austronesian and Papuan languages from eastern East
Timor have undergone substantial changes which have presumably resulted
from communal bilingualism in both sorts of languages. The project aims
to document and explain these changes. Language contact has traditionally
been a neglected area in historical linguistics and the East Timor situation
will provide valuable material for a general theory of language change.
Book length grammars of an Austronesian and a Papuan language, further
grammatical sketches, and a number of papers on language contact will
be produced as a result of the project.
http://www.arc.gov.au/pdf/2003_DP_Org.pdf
Digital Archiving Equipment for PARADISEC Research Archive of the Asia-Pacific Region Audio Recordings
Quadriga System for PARADISEC Research Archive of the Asia-Pacific Region Audio Recordings
Documenting Waima'a, East Timor. Language endangerment and maintenance in a newly emerging nation
Prof John Hajek, Dr J Bowden and Dr N Himmelmann