Reconstructing Australia’s linguistic past: Are all Australian languages related to one another?

这个项目解决了一个关于澳大利亚过去的核心问题。澳大利亚的所有语言都是相关的，都源于一个共同的源语言：原始澳大利亚语。该项目将研究“是”或“否”的答案对分析澳大利亚史前史和人类史前史的一般分析的影响。该项目涉及大量濒危语言Yanyuwa的文件，因为Yanyuwa数据在决定"是“或”否“答案之间的重要性。该项目将提供Yanyuwa的描述性语法，一本评价原始澳大利亚假说的书，以及讨论该假说的成功或失败对一般人类过去理论的意义的文章。

This project addresses a central question about Australia’s past. Are all the languages of Australia related, deriving from a common source language: Proto-Australian. The project will examine the implications of a ‘yes’ or a ‘no’ answer for analyses of Australian prehistory, and for general analyses of human prehistory. The project involves extensive documentation of an endangered language Yanyuwa, because of the significance of Yanyuwa data in deciding between a ‘yes’ or a ‘no’ answer. The project will provide a descriptive grammar of Yanyuwa, a book evaluating the Proto-Australian hypothesis, and articles discussing the significance of the success or failure of the hypothesis for theories of the general human past.