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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Lucida Calligraphy'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000>Come and work in an exotic location, investigating a language which has never previously been described!<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left; tab-stops: 18.0pt 42.55pt" align=left><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000>Applications are invited, from suitably qualified students, to enter the PhD program of the Language and Culture Research Group within the Cairns Institute of James Cook University <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Australia</st1:place></st1:country-region>. Supervision will be provided by Professors Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald and R. M. W. Dixon.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left; tab-stops: 18.0pt 42.55pt" align=left><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Our PhD candidates undertake extensive fieldwork on a previously undescribed (or scarcely described) language and write a comprehensive grammar of it for their dissertation. They are expected 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. Their first fieldtrip lasts for about nine months. After completing a first draft of the grammar, back in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Cairns</st1:place></st1:City>, they undertake a second fieldtrip of two to three months. Fieldwork methodology centres 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 tropical Amazonia and the Papuan and Austronesian languages of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New Guinea</st1:place></st1:country-region>. However, we do not exclude applicants who have an established interest in languages from other areas (which need not necessarily lie within the tropics).<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left; tab-stops: 18.0pt 42.55pt" align=left><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>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, and phonology/phonetics, 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). <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left; tab-stops: 18.0pt 42.55pt" align=left><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>The Cairns Institute is a world centre for advanced study relating to the tropics. Professor Alexandra (Sasha) Aikhenvald is Research Leader for People and Societies of the Tropics. Together with Professor R. M. W. Dixon, she heads the Language and Culture Research Group, which includes Research Fellows and a growing number of doctoral students. In addition, senior scholars from across the world opt to spend their sabbatical in the Cairns Institute. <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left; tab-stops: 18.0pt 42.55pt" align=left><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>The LCRG has strong links with anthropologists and archaeologists, with scholars working on environmental issues, and with the <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">School</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Indigenous Australian Studies</st1:PlaceName>, all within <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">James</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Cook</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left; tab-stops: 18.0pt 42.55pt" align=left><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>The scholarship will be at the standard <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">James</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Cook</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> rate, Australian $</SPAN><TT><SPAN style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt">20,427 pa.</SPAN></TT><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> Students coming from overseas are liable for a tuition fee; but this may be waived in the case of a student of high merit. 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 (with the possibility of a six month extension). The deadline for application by international students (starting in 2010) is 31 August 2009; the deadline for students with Australian and <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New Zealand</st1:place></st1:country-region> passports is 31 October 2009. The academic year in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Australia</st1:place></st1:country-region> commences about 1st March. Successful applicants would take up their PhD scholarships between January and June 2010.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left; tab-stops: 18.0pt 42.55pt" align=left><TT><SPAN style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT size=3><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>The application procedures for international students can be found at: </FONT><A href="https://mail.jcu.edu.au/wm/mail/fetch.html?urlid=g17649a622625e763bea6550b63a46295bkihep9lal&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jcu.edu.au%2Fprospective%2Fstudyoptions%2Fpostgraduate%2FJCUDEV_002585.html" target=_blank><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=3>http://www.jcu.edu.au/prospective/studyoptions/postgraduate/JCUDEV_002585.html</FONT></SPAN></A><FONT size=3> </FONT></SPAN></TT><FONT size=3><SPAN style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">. </SPAN><TT><SPAN style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt">The 2010 Scholarship application form for international students can be </SPAN></TT></FONT><SPAN style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><BR></SPAN><TT><SPAN style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT size=3>found at: </FONT><A href="https://mail.jcu.edu.au/wm/mail/fetch.html?urlid=g17649a622625e763bea6550b63a46295bkihep9lal&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jcu.edu.au%2Fgrs%2Fscholarships%2Findex.htm" target=_blank><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=3>http://www.jcu.edu.au/grs/scholarships/index.htm</FONT></SPAN></A></SPAN></TT><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left; tab-stops: 18.0pt 42.55pt" align=left><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Prospective applicants are invited, in the first place, to get in touch with Professor Aikhenvald at <U>sasha.aikhenvald@jcu.edu.au</U>, providing details of their background, qualifications and interests (including a curriculum vitae).<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<BR><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><A href="http://www.jcu.edu.au/sass/staff/JCUPRD_043649.html">http://www.jcu.edu.au/sass/staff/JCUPRD_043649.html</A><BR><A href="http://www.aikhenvaldlinguistics.com/">http://www.aikhenvaldlinguistics.com/</A><BR><BR><BR></body>
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