Anthropological Linguistics: PhD Student, James Cook University, Cairns, Queensland, Australia

Wed Jul 1 16:58:07 UTC 2009

Prezados/as colegas,
Por favor, queiram divulgar essa notícia da Universidade James Cook, na Austrália, para programa de doutoramento em Linguística no exterior.  Essa é uma excelente oportunidade para quem queira desenvolver pesquisas em linguística, principalmente sobre línguas indígenas.

Cordial abraço,
Simoni

From: Alexandra Aikhenvald [a.y.aikhenvald at live.com]

Subject: Anthropological Linguistics: PhD Student, James Cook University, Cairns,
 Queensland, Australia

Institution/Organization: James Cook
University 

Department: The Cairns Institute, FASS 

Web Address:
http://www.jcu.edu.au/sass/staff/JCUPRD_043649.html 

Level: PhD 

Duties: Research

Specialty Areas: Anthropological Linguistics 

Language analysis 

Description:

Applications are invited, from suitably qualified students,
to enter the PhD

program of the Language and Culture Research Group within
the Cairns Institute

of James Cook University Australia. Supervision will be
provided by Professors

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald and R. M. W. Dixon.

 Our PhD candidates
undertake extensive fieldwork on a previously undescribed

 (or scarcely
described) language and write a comprehensive grammar of it for

 their dissertation.
They are expected to work on a language which is still

 actively spoken, and
to establish a field situation within a community in which

 it is the first
language. Their first fieldtrip lasts for about nine months.

 After completing a
first draft of the grammar, back in Cairns,
they undertake a

 second fieldtrip of
two to three months. Fieldwork methodology centers on the

 collection,
transcription and analysis of texts, together with participant

 observation, and
judicious grammatical elicitation in the language under

 description (not
through the lingua franca of the country). Our main priority

 areas are the
languages of tropical Amazonia and the Papuan and Austronesian

 languages of New Guinea.
However, we do not exclude applicants who have an

 established interest
in languages from other areas.

 PhDs in Australian
universities generally involve no coursework, just a

 substantial
dissertation. Candidates must thus have had thorough coursework

 training before
embarking on this PhD program. This should have included courses

 on morphology,
syntax, semantics, and phonology/phonetics, taught from a

 non-formalist
perspective. We place emphasis on work that has a sound empirical

 basis but also shows
a firm theoretical orientation (in terms of general

 typological theory,
known as basic linguistic theory). 

 The Cairns Institute
is a world centre for advanced study relating to the

 tropics. Professor
Alexandra (Sasha) Aikhenvald is Research Leader for People

 and Societies of the
Tropics. Together with Professor R. M. W. Dixon, she heads

 the Language and
Culture Research Group (LCRG), which includes Research Fellows

 and a growing number
of doctoral students. Senior scholars from across the world

 opt to spend their
sabbatical in the Cairns Institute. 

 The LCRG has strong
links with anthropologists and archaeologists, with

 scholars working on
environmental issues, and with the School
of Indigenous

  Australian Studies, all
within James Cook University.

 The scholarship will
be at the standard James
 Cook University
rate, Australian

 $20,427 pa. Students
coming from overseas are liable for a tuition fee; but this

 may be waived in the
case of a student of high merit. A small relocation

 allowance may be
provided on taking up the scholarship. In addition, an

 appropriate allowance
will be made to cover fieldwork expenses. The scholarship

 is for three years
(with the possibility of a six month extension). The deadline

 for application by
international students (starting in 2010) is 31 August 2009;

 the deadline for
students with Australian and New
  Zealand passports is 31

 October 2009. The
academic year in Australia
commences about 1st March.

 Successful applicants
would take up their PhD scholarships between January and

 June 2010.

 The application procedures
for international students can be found at:

 http://www.jcu.edu.au/prospective/studyoptions/postgraduate/JCUDEV_002585.html
.

 The 2010 Scholarship
application form for international students can be found

 at:
http://www.jcu.edu.au/grs/scholarships/index.htm

 Prospective
applicants are invited, in the first place, to get in touch with

 Professor Aikhenvald
at sasha.aikhenvald at jcu.edu.au, providing details of their

 background,
qualifications and interests (including a curriculum vitae). 

 Application Deadline:
31-Aug-2009 

 Mailing Address for
Applications:

 Attn: Prof Alexandra
Aikhenvald 

 The Cairns Institute,
JCU 

 MacGregor Road 

 Cairns
Queensland 4878 

 Australia 

 Web Address for
Applications: http://www.jcu.edu.au/prospective/studyoptions/postgraduate/JCUDEV_002585.html

 Contact Information: 

 Prof Alexandra
Aikhenvald 

 Sasha.Aikhenvald at jcu.edu.au 

 Phone:61(0)740421117 

 Fax:61(0)740421390 

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