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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-AU
style='font-size:10.0pt'>PhD scholarships in grammatical description</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-AU
style='font-size:10.0pt'>The Research Centre for Linguistic Typology at La
Trobe University in </span></font><span lang=EN-AU>Melbourne</span><span
lang=EN-AU>, </span><span lang=EN-AU>Australia</span><span lang=EN-AU>,
invites applications from suitably qualified students to enter the PhD program.</span></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-AU
style='font-size:10.0pt'>Our PhD candidates generally undertake extensive
fieldwork on a previously undescribed (or scarcely described) language and
write a comprehensive grammar of it for their dissertation. We prefer
students 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.
Fieldwork methodology should be centred on the collection, transcription and
analysis of texts, together with participant observation, and — at a
later stage — judicious grammatical elicitation in the language under
description (not through the lingua franca of the country). Our main priority
areas are the languages of </span></font><span lang=EN-AU>Amazonia</span><span
lang=EN-AU> and the Papuan and Austronesian languages of </span><span
lang=EN-AU>New Guinea</span><span lang=EN-AU>. We also welcome
applications to work on indigenous languages from other areas such as the
Aslian language group from </span><span lang=EN-AU>Malaysia</span><span
lang=EN-AU> and the Aboriginal languages of </span><span lang=EN-AU>Australia</span><span
lang=EN-AU>.</span></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-AU
style='font-size:10.0pt'>PhDs in Australian universities generally involve no
coursework, just a substantial dissertation. Candidates must thus have had a
thorough coursework training before embarking on this PhD program. This
should have included courses on morphology, syntax, semantics,
phonology/phonetics and comparative-historical linguistics, 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, or what has recently come to be called basic linguistic
theory). </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-AU
style='font-size:10.0pt'>The Research Centre for Linguistic Typology consists,
at any one time, of about twenty scholars, working on a variety of languages
and typological issues. Besides the permanent staff of Professor R M W
Dixon (Director) and Professor Alexandra Y Aikhenvald (Associate Director) we
have an array of Research Fellows and PhD students; each year a number of
senior scholars from across the world spend from three to six months with us as
Visiting Fellows. Our personnel this year includes specialists on spoken
languages from the following families or areas: Tsimshian, Mayan, Oto-Manguean,
Eskimo-Aleut, Arawak, Carib, Arawá, Panaoan, Jívaro, Tacanan,
Indo-European, Niger-Congo, Chukchee, Afro-asiatic, Khoisan, Tai-Kadai,
Tibeto-Burman, Austro-asiatic, Papuan, Austronesian and Australian.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-AU
style='font-size:10.0pt'>There is also an excellent Department of Linguistics
in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at La Trobe University, whose
faculty includes Professor </span></font><span lang=EN-AU>Randy LaPolla</span><span
lang=EN-AU>, Associate Professor David Bradley, and Dr </span><span lang=EN-AU>Hilary
Chappell</span><span lang=EN-AU>. And there are fine Departments of
Linguistics at the </span><span lang=EN-AU>University</span><span lang=EN-AU>
of </span><span lang=EN-AU>Melbourne</span><span lang=EN-AU> and at </span><span
lang=EN-AU>Monash</span><span lang=EN-AU> </span><span lang=EN-AU>University</span><span
lang=EN-AU>. </span></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-AU
style='font-size:10.0pt'>The scholarship will be at the standard La Trobe
University rate, Australian $17,500 p.a. Students coming from overseas
are liable for a visa fee (effectively, a tuition fee); we will pay this. 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.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-AU
style='font-size:10.0pt'>Further information about </span></font><span
lang=EN-AU>RCLT</span><span lang=EN-AU> is at our website:
http://www.latrobe.edu.au/rclt. </span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-AU
style='font-size:10.0pt'>See, in particular, our February 2004 Newsletter,
available on this web site.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-AU
style='font-size:10.0pt'>Prospective applicants are invited to get in touch
with Professor Aikhenvald at a.aikhenvald@latrobe.edu.au, providing details of
their background, qualifications and interests. </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Professor Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, FAHA</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Associate Director</span></font></p>
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