Endangered Languages Projects

Grants awarded in 2003

Lead Applicants	Project title	Host Institution	Funding UK£
Major Documentation Projects
Francesca Merlan	Jawoyn Cultural Texts, Dictionary and Grammar (southern Arnhem Land)	Australian National University	57,686
Margaret Florey	Documentation of four moribund Moluccan languages	Monash University	63,037
Nora England	Documentation of Two Mayan Languages of Guatemala: Uspanteko, Sakapulteko	OKMA	127,341
Dennis Moore	Documentation of Urgently Endangered Tupian Languages	Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi/MCT	57,840
Greville Corbett	Dictionary of Archi (Daghestanian) with sound files and cultural materials	University of Surrey	109,226
Matthew Dryer	Linguistic Fieldwork in Sanduan Province, Papua New Guinea	University at Buffalo	76,152
Nora England	Iquito Language Documentation Project	University of Texas, Austin	67,038
Veronica Grondona	Typological, comparative and historical study of languages of the Southern Chaco	Eastern Michigan University	100,225
Tapani Salminen	Tundra Nenets Grammar	Finno-Ugrian Society	39,000
Individual Postgraduate Fellowships
Knut Olawsky	Language and Culture of the Urarina People	La Trobe Univerisity	64,362
Catriona Hyslop	Documentation of the Vurës Language, Vanua Lava, Vanuatu	La Trobe University	51,399
Antoine Guillaume	Documentation of Reyesano, an almost extinct language of Bolivia (South America)	Institut des Sciences de l'Homme	55,124
Birgit Hellwig	Documentation of Goemai	SOAS, University of London	60,784
I Wayan Arka	Documenting Rongga	Australian National University	104,818
Alice Taff	Aleut Conversation Corpus	The University of Washington	91,847
Eduardo Ribeiro	Documentation of the Ofayé Language	Universidade Federal de Goiás	33,312
Pilot Project Grants
Aone van Engelenhoven	The Maku’a Pilot Project	Leiden University	3,950
Philip Baker	Vedda Language Project	University of Westminster	4,150
Individual Graduate Studentships
Miriam Corris	Barupu grammar and lexicography	University of Sydney	13,547
Field Trip Grants
Peter Sercombe	A dictionary of Eastern Penan	Northumbria University	4,250
Sidney Facundes	Description of Apurinã (Arawak)	Universidade Federale do Pará	9,747
Total amount awarded:			1,194,835

The figures shown do not reflect any subsequent alterations to grants or any other commitments made by the Endangered Languages Documentation Programme.