Graduate fellowships at Rice

[Suzanne E Kemmer]

The Linguistics Department at Rice University (home of Funknet!)
encourages applications from well-qualified students for admission to
our Ph.D. program in Linguistics for 1997-98.

The Ph.D. program at Rice emphasizes the study of language use, the
relation of language and mind, and functional approaches to linguistic
theory and description.  Areas of intensive research activity in the
department include cognitive/functional linguistics; in-depth study of
the languages of North and South America, the Pacific, and Africa;
language universals and typology; language change and
grammaticalization studies; lexical semantics; corpus linguistics;
computational modeling; neurolinguistics; discourse studies; and
second language acquisition.

The department offers support in the form of tuition waivers and
fellowships to qualified doctoral students.  Both U.S. and
international applicants are admitted on the same basis, and financial
aid is not restricted to U.S. citizens. Current doctoral candidates
include not only U.S. students but also students from Australia,
Brazil, China, Germany, and Korea. Prospective students of diverse
linguistic backgrounds are encouraged to apply. Admission and
fellowships are awarded on a competitive basis.

Students enjoy access to departmental computer facilities; the
department and university's excellent Linguistics collections
(including a huge library of descriptive grammars); funds for
conference travel; and photocopying accounts.

Graduate housing next to campus is available; students can also take
advantage of the affordable rental market in Houston, the nation's
fourth largest city. With its many immigrant communities, the city
provides not only wonderful opportunities for fieldwork, but also for
(affordably) sampling a vast array of international cuisines.

Applications are available from the following addresses:

EMAIL: ukeie at ruf.rice.edu
REGULAR MAIL:
Ursula Keierleber, Coordinator
Department of Linguistics
Rice University
6100 Main St.
Houston TX 77005-1892

TELEPHONE: (713) 527-6010

Graduate Record Examination scores must be received by the
department as soon as possible. Two letters of recommendation from
relevant faculty are also required.

Applications should be received by February 1, 1997.

For more information about the program, see the department's
WEB PAGE at:

http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~ling


Subpages include:

Department--the basic info about the orientation of the department

People--Faculty, students, staff, visitors

Activities--Research Projects, Funknet, Distinguished
Speakers/Colloquium series, Biennial Symposia etc.

Programs--Graduate and Undergraduate Degree Programs

Courses--This year's course schedules