Documentation of five Paman languages of Cape York Peninsula, Australia

A documentation project funded by the Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project (SOAS, University of London), housed at the University of Leuven

Project

The aim of this project is to document five highly endangered Paman languages of Cape York Peninsula (Australia): Kugu Muminh, Kuku Thaypan, Umbuygamu, Umpila, and Wik Ngathan. The project is a team effort of five people with prior research experience on these languages, who want to pool knowledge and resources to document them as thoroughly as possible with the last generation of speakers. Our central goal is to produce an extensive representative corpus of texts, which will form a valuable resource for the communities involved, and will serve as the basis for further descriptive and community-oriented work.

The project is funded by the Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project (SOAS, University of London), and will run for three years, from December 2006 to December 2009.
 

Research team

• Main applicant: Jean-Christophe Verstraete (FWO / University of Leuven)

• Co-applicant: Peter Sutton (University of Adelaide / South Australian Museum)  

• Alice Gaby (UC Berkeley)

• Bruce Rigsby (University of Queensland)

• Clair Hill (Max Planck Institut für Psycholinguistik)

Contact

Jean-Christophe Verstraete
Department of Linguistics
University of Leuven
Blijde-Inkomststraat 21
3000 Leuven
Belgium
Tel. +32 16 32 47 75
Fax. +32 16 32 47 67
E-mail. jean-christophe.verstraete ad arts.kuleuven.be
URL. http://wwwling.arts.kuleuven.be/fll/hrelp