Current research

Reconstructing Australia's linguistic past: Are all Australian languages related to one another?

Researcher: Associate Professor Mark Harvey and Dr Robert Mailhammer
Funding body: Australian Research Council (ARC)
Year: 2014 to 2016

Materials in Ratsua and the dialects of Hahon, two virtually undocumented endangered Oceanic language of northern Bougainville.

Researcher: Dr Bill Palmer
Funding body: The Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project
Year: 2013 to 2014

Aboriginal place names and ethnobiology: enhancing interpretation of indigenous culture and heritage

Researchers: Associate Professor Mark Harvey, Associate Professor Ian Clark, and Dr Laura Kostanski
Funding bodies: Australian Research Council (ARC), Northern Territory Department of Lands and Planning, and Office of Surveyor-General Victoria
Year: 2012 to 2015

Thinking and talking about atolls: the role of environment in shaping language and our understanding of physical space

Researchers: Dr Bill Palmer and Dr Alice Gaby
Funding body: Australian Research Council (ARC)
Year: 2012

Documentation of Matavat (Nese): A highly endangered Northern Vanuatu language

Researchers: Dr Catriona Malau and Ms Lana Takau
Funding body: The Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project
Year: 2012