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Toponymy and Language Shift: Aspects of Language Change in South-East Asia (Research Grant)

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    CAVALLARO, Francesco Paolo (Principal Investigator - PI), and František KRATOCHVÍL (Co-Principal Investigator - Co-PI), Francesco PERONO CACCIAFOCO (Co-Principal Investigator - Co-PI), Astrid KENSINGER (Co-Principal Investigator - Co-PI), Singapore Ministry of Education (MOE) AcRF Tier 1 Research Grant (Grant Number RG56/14), "Toponymy and Language Shift: Aspects of Language Change in South-East Asia", 2014-2017

    The Project aimed at applying criteria from Indo-European Linguistics to undocumented Papuan linguistic contexts from the Alor-Pantar Archipelago, in Southeast Indonesia, trying to reconctruct local toponymy, oral traditions, grammatical change, sound changes, and etymologies.

    The Project reconstructed sistematically the Abui Toponymy from Alor Island; a connection between naming processes and grammatical change phenomena in Abui was documented and validated.
    Period6 Jan 2014 → 31 Dec 2017
    Held atNanyang Technological University, Singapore
    Degree of RecognitionInternational

    Keywords

    • Language Documentation
    • Field Linguistics
    • Cultural Anthropology
    • Etymology
    • Historical Linguistics

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