Lect HistLing
nigel vincent
nbvint at nessie.mcc.ac.uk
Thu May 7 16:48:36 UTC 1998
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>Lectureship in Historical Linguistics (Ref. no. 310/98)
>
>Applications will be considered from those specializing in any branch of
>historical linguistics. A strong research record is essential, and a
>completed PhD is desirable. Applicants must be able to demonstrate an
>interest both in the theoretical study of language change and in the
>history of one or more languages and language families. Preference may be
>given to candidates whose research relates to the history of a language or
>languages other than English. The starting date is 1 September 1998 or as
>soon as possible thereafter. Salary in the range: £16045 - £21894 p.a.
>(under review). Closing date for applications: 9 June 1998.
>Applications forms are available from and applications should be submitted
>to: Office of the Director of Personnel, The University of Manchester,
>Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK. Tel: ++44 (0)161 275 2028; Fax: ++44
>(0)161 275 2221; Minicom (for the hearing impaired): ++44 (0)161 275 7889.
>Email: personnel at man.ac.uk
>Website: http://www.man.ac.uk
>Applications should quote the above reference number and contain the names
>of three referees. It is the responsibility of applicants to ensure that
>supporting letters of reference are sent to the same address by the closing
>date for applications.
>It is expected that interviews for this post will be conducted in the week
>beginning 15 June 1998.
>
>Person Description
>Candidates should possess a strong research record, including a PhD or
>equivalent publications, in the any area of historical linguistics. They
>must be able to demonstrate an interest both in the theoretical study of
>language change and in the history of one or more languages and language
>families. Preference may be given to candidates whose research relates to
>the history of a language or languages other than English. Candidates will
>need to have or acquire the presentational skills necessary for lectures,
>seminars and small group teaching, and the IT and organizational skills
>appropriate to departmental teaching and administration.
>
>Job Description
>The appointed candidate will be expected to contribute to the research,
>teaching (both undergraduate and postgraduate) and administration of the
>Department of Linguistics.
> General particulars of appointment to posts of Lecturer refer to
>the duty to undertake research. In the Faculty of Arts it is a matter of
>policy that the capacity to fulfil that duty requires that care be taken by
>Heads of Department to ensure that the opportunity exists for staff to
>undertake research. Newly appointed staff in particular, serving a period
>of probation (normally up to four years), may expect to establish with
>their Head of Department appropriate arrangements for undertaking research
>activity and for publishing their results. A mentoring system also exists
>for new staff. In addition, probationary staff Reports on research activity
>undertaken by probationary Lecturers, compiled by various means including
>periodic appraisal by or for the Head of Department, will form a
>significant part of the information to be taken into account by the Faculty
>Review Committee and the Academic Promotions Committee in determining
>progress in probation, and in formulating their recommendations regarding
>the completion of probation.
>
>The Department of Linguistics
>The Department was rated 5 in the Research Assessment Exercise of 1996 and
>seeks to improve that score in the next Exercise. (If you are not familiar
>with this assessment system; there is one score, 5*, which is higher than
>5.) There are at present eight tenured and one temporary members of staff
>and three Research Fellows, whose names and research interests are set out
>below:
>
>Martin Barry Lecturer instrumental phonetics; forensic
> phonetics; Russian
>
>Susan Barry Temp Lecturer instrumental phonetics; child
> phonology Phonetics; Russian
>
>Delia Bentley Research Fellow morphosyntactic change; Italian,
> Sicilian, Sardinian
>Kersti Borjars Lecturer syntax (HPSG, LFG); morphology;
> Swedish, Dutch
>William Croft Reader linguistic typology; semantics;
> cognitive linguistics;
> American Indian languages
>Alan Cruse Senior Lecturer lexical semantics; pragmatics;
> cognitive linguistics; Arabic,
> Turkish
>Alan Cruttenden Professor intonation theory; cross-linguistic
> and cross-dialectal intonations
>Thorhallur Eythorsson Research Fellow
> morphosyntactic change; Icelandic,
> Gothic, Tokharian
>Yaron Matras Research Fellow language contact; discourse pragmatics;
> Romany, Turkish, German, Kurdish
>John Payne Senior Lecturer syntax (Categorial Grammar);
> linguistic typology; English Grammar;
> Iranian Languages, Russian
>Katharine Perera Professor educational linguistics; the acquisition
> of reading and writing; stylistics
>Nigel Vincent Professor morphosyntactic change; morphology;
> Italian, Latin
>
>
>
>Professor Jacques Durand (Universiy of Toulouse) holds an Honorary Chair in
>Phonology in the Department, and is co-organizer of the annual Manchester
>Phonology Colloquium. The Department also has close links with the language
>specialists (Prof Richard Hogg, Prof David Denison, Dr Chris McCully) in
>the Department of English, and with Dr Wiebke Brockhaus in the Department
>of German.
>
> The department currently hosts a British-Academy funded research
>project on Archaism and Innovation in the Languages of Europe jointly
>directed by Professors Vincent and Hogg. The researchers on thisproject are
>Drs Delia Bentley and Thorhallur Eythorsson. For more details about this
>project, visit the website at: http://www.art.man.ac.uk/innovate/
>If appropriate, the successful candidate for the present post will have the
>opportunity to associate his/her research with this project, and to
>participate in activities that are organized under its aegis.
>
> The Department has a programme of postgraduate courses which form
>in different ways the whole or the nucleus of various master's degrees,
>including ones linking the Department with language departments in the
>Faculty of Arts, with Psychology, Computer Science, and Mathematics (in the
>Faculty of Science), and with the Faculty of Education. There are currently
>13 Ph.D. students registered in the Department.
> The Department is also involved in a large array of undergraduate
>degree programmes, including single honours linguistics and joint degrees
>with twelve other departments including Sociology and Social Anthropology.
>The Department also plays a role in the B.Sc. in Speech Pathology and
>Therapy and contributes to degrees in Combined Studies, besides having many
>students doing linguistics as a subsidiary subject.
> The Department participates in a network in Linguistics under the
>Socrates scheme, involving exchanges with Amsterdam, Berlin, Gerona,
>Helsinki, Lund, Madrid, Naples, and Odense. Under the aegis of this
>programme a European M.A. exists whereby students who register in one
>country can do part of their degree in other countries. The Department also
>belongs to a Socrates programme in Phonetics.
> The Department has its own Library and a Phonetics Laboratory,
>which has facilities for signal analysis, speech synthesis, laryngography,
>and electropalatography. Computation in the Department is primarily based
>on Macintosh; the Department's local area network runs over Ethernet and is
>connected to the campus backbone and thence to the Internet. A number of
>PCs are also available.
> The Journal of the International Phonetic Association is edited
>from within the Department by Martin Barry.
>
> The Department is a member of the North West Centre of Linguistics
>(NWCL), a collaborative body embracing all staff and postgraduate students
>in Linguistics in participating institutions in the North West. These
>currently include the Universities of Central Lancashire, Lancaster,
>Liverpool, Manchester, Salford, UMIST, and the University of Wales at
>Bangor. NWCL arranges seminars, conferences, workshops and
>inter-institutional postgraduate training.
>
> More information about the Department and its activities can be
>obtained by consulting the following website: http://lings.ln.man.ac.uk/
>
> Those invited for interview will be asked to give a presentation of
>their work to members of the Department. Applicants who require further
>information or who wish to discuss the details of the post are invited to
>contact either Prof Nigel Vincent (nigel.vincent at man.ac.uk,
>+44-(0)161-275-3194/3187) or the Head of Department, Mr John Payne
>(john.payne at man.ac.uk, +44 (0)161-275-3186/3187).
>
Nigel Vincent Tel: +44-(0)161-275 3194
Department of Linguistics Fax: +44-(0)161-275 3187
University of Manchester e-mail: nigel.vincent at man.ac.uk
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