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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Tahoma"><p class="EC_MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:1.35em;margin-left:0px"><b style="font-weight:bold"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000" style="line-height:normal"><font face="Times New Roman" style="line-height:normal">Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Anthropological Linguistics (Two Positions) - Ref. No. 9037</font></font></span></b></p><p class="EC_MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:1.35em;margin-left:0px"><font color="#000000" style="line-height:normal"><font face="Times New Roman" style="line-height:normal"><b style="font-weight:bold"><span style="font-size:12pt">CAIRNS</span></b><b style="font-weight:bold"><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></b></font></font></p><p class="EC_MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:1.35em;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000" style="line-height:normal"><font face="Times New Roman" style="line-height:normal">Applications are invited for two three year Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in the Cairns Institute to work as part of a team headed by Professor Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald and Professor R.M.W. Dixon, within the framework of their joint project ‘World through the prism of language: a cross-linguistic view of genders, noun classes and classifiers’.</font></font></span></p><p class="EC_MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:1.35em;margin-left:0px"><font color="#000000" style="line-height:normal"><font face="Times New Roman" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt">Applicants must have a doctorate or equivalent qualification, preferably awarded within the last five years. Cases in which </span><span style="font-size:12pt">the </span><span style="font-size:12pt">period since the award of the doctorate is in excess of five years may also be considered, as will applications from candidates whose thesis is currently under examination. Experience of linguistic fieldwork is required and ideally the appointee will have already completed a grammatical description of a language that has not previously been described (not their native language) in terms of basic linguistic theory. A Fellowship will not normally be awarded to an applicant who already holds an appointment within the University. Ideally, we are seeking to make one appointment to work on a language from South America with the other to work on a language from New Guinea. However applicants with primary interest in another area will be considered. The appointees will be required to undertake extensive fieldwork and will produce a comprehensive description of a previously undescribed language.</span></font></font></p><p class="EC_MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:1.35em;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style="line-height:normal"> </font></span></p><p class="EC_MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:1.35em;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style="line-height:normal">It is essential that prospective applicants contact Professor Aikhenvald, at</font><a href="mailto:Sasha.Aikhenvald@jcu,edu.au" style="font-weight:inherit;cursor:pointer;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(0, 104, 207)"><font face="Times New Roman" style="line-height:normal">Sasha.Aikhenvald@jcu,edu.au</font></a><font color="#000000" style="line-height:normal"><font face="Times New Roman" style="line-height:normal"> (or by phone, 61-(0)7-40421117, 0400305315).</font></font></span></p><p class="EC_MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:1.35em;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style="line-height:normal"> </font></span></p><p class="EC_MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:1.35em;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000" style="line-height:normal"><font face="Times New Roman" style="line-height:normal">Employment Type: Appointment will be full-time for a fixed-term from 1 May 2009 to 30 April 2012 subject to a probationary period.</font></font></span></p><p class="EC_MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:1.35em;margin-left:0px"><font color="#000000" style="line-height:normal"><font face="Times New Roman" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt">Salary: Academic Level A - $59,478 - $63,733 per annum or Academic Level B - $67,009 - $79,289 per annum. Benefits include generous employer superannuation contribution and attractive options for salary packaging. </span><span style="font-size:12pt">Level of appointment and commencing salary will be in accordance with qualifications and experience.</span></font></font></p><p class="EC_MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:1.35em;margin-left:0px"><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" size="3" style="line-height:normal">Applicants must follow the Method of Application procedures (including systematically addressing the Selection Criteria). Further information is available at </font><a href="http://jcu.edu.au/" style="font-weight:inherit;cursor:pointer;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(0, 104, 207)"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3" style="line-height:normal">http://www.jcu.edu.au/jobs/</font></a><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" size="3" style="line-height:normal"> or by contacting the Recruitment Officer, Faculty of Arts, Education and Social Sciences telephone: (07) 4781 6207; e-mail renee.joyce@jcu.edu.au</font></p><p class="EC_MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:1.35em;margin-left:0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:16px"><br></span></p><p class="EC_MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:1.35em;margin-left:0px"><font size="3" style="line-height:normal"><font color="#000000" style="line-height:normal"><font face="Times New Roman" style="line-height:normal"><span>Applications close on 27 March 2009.</span></font></font></font></p><p class="EC_MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:1.35em;margin-left:0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px;"><br></span></p><p class="EC_MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:1.35em;margin-left:0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px;">Apologies for multiple postings.</span></p></span><br>Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, PhD, DLitt, FAHA<br>Professor and Research Leader (Peoples and Societies of the Tropics)<br>The Cairns Institute <br>
James Cook University<br>PO Box 6811<br>Cairns<br>Queensland 4870<br>Australia<br><br>mobile 0400 305315<br>office 61-7-40421117<br>home 61-7-40381876<br> <br><a href="mailto:sasha.aikhenvald@jcu.edu.au">sasha.aikhenvald@jcu.edu.au</a><br><br><a href="http://www.latrobe.edu.au/rclt/StaffPages/aikhenvald.htm"><u><font color="#0000ff">http://www.latrobe.edu.au/rclt/StaffPages/aikhenvald.htm</font></u></a> <br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>
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