Program

Research Programs: Basic Research

Period of Performance

6/1/1985 - 12/31/1987

Funding Totals

$70,000.00 (approved)
$70,000.00 (awarded)


Linguistics Research on Papua-New Guinea Languages

FAIN: RO-20801-85

University of Oregon (Eugene, OR 97403-5219)
T. Givon (Project Director: February 1984 to March 1988)

To support a linguistic study of serial verb structures in a Papua-New Guinea language group, trying to show whether the presence or absence of verb serialization indicates differences in expression or more important variations in cognitive processing.