Research Group
Endangered Languages Documentation, Theory and Application
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
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The University of Newcastle acknowledges the traditional custodians of the lands within our footprint areas: Awabakal, Darkinjung, Biripai, Worimi, Wonnarua, and Eora Nations. We also pay respect to the wisdom of our Elders past and present.