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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left" align=left><FONT face=Times size=3>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 Australia. Supervision will be provided by Professors Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, R. M. W. Dixon, Dr Mark Post and Dr Anne Schwarz.</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left" align=left><FONT size=3><FONT face=Times><SPAN> </SPAN>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. 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 Cairns, 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 New Guinea. 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> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left" align=left><FONT size=3><FONT face=Times><SPAN> </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). </FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left" align=left><FONT size=3><FONT face=Times><SPAN> </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. </FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left" align=left><FONT size=3><FONT face=Times><SPAN> </SPAN>The LCRG has strong links with anthropologists and archaeologists, with scholars working on environmental issues, and with the School of Indigenous Australian Studies, all within James Cook University.</FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left" align=left><FONT size=3><FONT face=Times><SPAN> </SPAN>The scholarship will be at the standard James Cook University rate, Australian $20,427 pa. 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 2011) is 31 August 2010; the deadline for students with Australian and New Zealand passports is 31 October 2010. The academic year in Australia commences about 1st March. Successful applicants would take up their PhD scholarships between January and June 2011.</FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left" align=left><FONT size=3><FONT face=Times><SPAN> </SPAN>The application procedures for international students can be found at: </FONT></FONT><A href="https://mail.jcu.edu.au/wm/mail/fetch.html?urlid=g17649a622625e763bea6550b63a46295bkihep9lal&url=http://www.jcu.edu.au/prospective/studyoptions/postgraduate/JCUDEV_002585.html"><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none"><FONT face=Times size=3>http://www.jcu.edu.au/prospective/studyoptions/postgraduate/JCUDEV_002585.html</FONT></SPAN></A><FONT face=Times size=3> . The 2010 for 2011 Scholarship application form for international students can be <BR>found at: </FONT><A href="https://mail.jcu.edu.au/wm/mail/fetch.html?urlid=g17649a622625e763bea6550b63a46295bkihep9lal&url=http://www.jcu.edu.au/grs/scholarships/index.htm"><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none"><FONT face=Times size=3>http://www.jcu.edu.au/grs/scholarships/index.htm</FONT></SPAN></A></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left" align=left><FONT size=3><FONT face=Times><SPAN> </SPAN>Prospective applicants are invited, in the first place, to get in touch with Professor Aikhenvald at alexandra.aikhenvald@jcu.edu.au, providing details of their background, qualifications and interests (including a curriculum vitae). Applicants are advised to send samples of their written work in linguistics (at least some of this should be in English).</FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left" align=left><BR><BR><FONT face=Times size=3>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> <BR></FONT><A href="mailto:alexandra.aikhenvald@jcu.edu.au"><FONT face=Times size=3>alexandra.aikhenvald@jcu.edu.au</FONT></A><FONT face=Times size=3> <BR></FONT><A href="http://www.jcu.edu.au/sass/staff/JCUPRD_043649.html"><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none"><FONT face=Times size=3>http://www.jcu.edu.au/sass/staff/JCUPRD_043649.html</FONT></SPAN></A><BR><A href="http://www.aikhenvaldlinguistics.com/"><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none"><FONT face=Times size=3>http://www.aikhenvaldlinguistics.com/</FONT></SPAN></A><BR><BR> <BR><A href="mailto:alexandra.aikhenvald@jcu.edu.au">alexandra.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><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR></P> </body>
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