<div dir="ltr">With apologies for multiple postings.<div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Eitan</div><div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><p class="gmail-MsoCommentText" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'times new roman'"><br></span></b></p><p class="gmail-MsoCommentText" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Doctoral Fellowships at the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem</font></b></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoCommentText" style="text-align:justify"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The
"Historical Linguistics and Formal Semantics" research group, which
will operate during the academic years 2017/18-2019/20 at the Mandel Scholion Interdisciplinary
Research Center in the Humanities and Jewish Studies of the Hebrew University
of Jerusalem, is offering four three-year scholarships for doctoral students.<span></span></font></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoCommentText" style="text-align:justify"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The aim of the research group is to better our
understanding of natural language by combining two areas of linguistic research
whose integration is still nascent: historical linguistics and formal
semantics. The group will jointly explore, in a systematic manner, how studies
in historical linguistics and in semantics can contribute to one another. It
will strive to draw conclusions about the properties of a variety of semantic
categories, their universality, and the mechanisms underlying recurring shifts
in meanings over time, or paths of semantic change, within these categories.</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The group will
be led by Elitzur Bar-Asher Siegal, Nora Boneh, Eitan Grossman, and Aynat
Rubinstein. For a summary of its aims, please see the project proposal <a href="http://en.scholion.huji.ac.il/sites/default/files/scholionen/files/scholion_proposal_2015_diachrony_and_formal_semantics_with_cvs.pdf">here</a>.</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">We welcome
candidates with excellent research qualifications and an interest in language
change and formal linguistics. Prior training in one of these areas is a
prerequisite.<span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Recipients of
the scholarships, who must register by October 2017 as doctoral students at the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, will receive excellent working conditions for
the three years of the scholarship at the Mandel Scholion Center
on the University’s Mount Scopus campus, including office space close to the project
leaders and a yearly grant of 75,000 NIS. Recipients will be expected to devote
these three years to writing their doctoral dissertations. Moreover, it is
expected that they will be present at the Mandel Scholion Center four days a
week and participate in the group’s activities and those of the Center, which
is an interdisciplinary research center devoted to the promotion of excellent
research in a wide variety of disciplines. Recipients of the scholarship are not
permitted to engage in additional work during this period, other than possibly
serving as teaching and research assistants at the Hebrew University.<span></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Applicants should
send the following documents to <a href="mailto:scholion@savion.huji.ac.il">scholion@savion.huji.ac.il</a> :</font></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-align:justify"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">1.<span style="line-height:normal">
</span>CV<span></span></font></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">2.<span style="line-height:normal">
</span>Research statement (2 pages)<span></span></font></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">3.<span style="line-height:normal">
</span>Transcripts of BA and MA</font></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">They should also ask two scholars familiar with them and their work
to submit recommendations directly to the above address.<span></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Deadline for
application</b>: 2
March 2017<span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Interviews for
finalists (in person or on Skype) will take place on 16 March 2017.<span></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Contact
information: <span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Eitan Grossman (<a href="mailto:eitan.grossman@mail.huji.ac.il">eitan.grossman@mail.huji.ac.il</a>)<span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Aynat Rubinstein (<a href="mailto:aynat.rubinstein@mail.huji.ac.il">aynat.rubinstein@mail.huji.ac.il</a>)</font><font face="times new roman"><span></span></font></span></p>
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