[Lingtyp] PhD position, corpus and field research on a Tibeto-Burman language

[Uta Reinöhl]

PhD position, corpus and field research on a Tibeto-Burman language

Applications are invited to fill a PhD position in the research group 
“Non-hierarchicality in grammar. Construction for-mation without word 
class distinction across categories and languages” (Emmy Noether Group, 
DFG (German Research Foundation)) led by PI Dr. Uta Reinöhl at the 
Department of English and Linguistics of the University of Mainz (Germa-ny).

The PhD candidate will participate in the description of a Tibeto-Burman 
language spoken in Northeast India. Her/his research focus may be in 
phonology, phonetics, syntax, or in related fields. S/he will 
collaborate with the principal investi-gator in building up a language 
documentation corpus. Short field trips will be part of the research 
programme. S/he will conduct research with other PhD candidates and the 
principal investigator on complex expressions combining elements of the 
same syntactic class, cross-linguistically and cross-categorially. S/he 
will be involved in collaborative research with project partners from 
the Australian National University and the University of Cologne.

The ideal candidate has:
-    an MA degree (or an equivalent degree that allows for entering a 
doctoral programme) in linguistics, phonetics or in a related field by 
the end of February 2019
-    research interests in one or several of the following 
sub-disciplines: phonology, phonetics, syntax, morpho-syntax, typology, 
language documentation
-    a keen interest in working on an under-documented, endangered 
Tibeto-Burman language
-    a keen interest in building up a language documentation corpus and 
in participating in short field trips
-    social skills facilitating collaborative research with native 
speakers as well as within the research unit
-    (optionally) language competence in Hindi or another New Indo-Aryan 
language and/or in a Tibeto-Burman language

Further information on the research unit can be found here: 
http://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/406074683

Planned starting date: March 1st 2019
Funding: E13 TV-L (65%) – Three years (with a possible extension to four 
years)
Application Deadline: Dec 10th 2018

Applications from severely disabled persons with equivalent 
qualifications will be given preference.
All application documents (a letter of motivation, CV, course 
transcript, certificates of completed degrees, two examples of 
representative written work, two names of references) should be sent by 
email to uta.reinoehl at gmail.com by Decem-ber 10th 2018. Any enquiries 
can be sent to the same address.