A project funded by the Australian
Research Council, under the Discovery Grant Scheme (Project ID DP0343354)
Timeframe: 2003 - 2005
Reciprocity lies at the heart of social organization and human evolution, and the world's 5000 languages all represent distinct solutions to the problem of how to represent and reason about reciprocity, using the resources of grammar, lexicon, prosody, gesture, and inference from context. This project will examine how reciprocity is expressed, and the different subtypes of reciprocal meaning, by carrying out detailed linguistic fieldwork on fourteen little-known languages of Australia and its region. The fieldwork on the undescribed (and in many cases endangered) languages will be supplemented by a typological survey of how the various notions of reciprocity are expressed in languages around the world, and on the coding or reciprocity in grammar.
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