<div dir="ltr"><p>The Surrey Morphology Group (School of Literature and Languages,
University of Surrey) is seeking to appoint a Research Fellow for a
three-year Arts and Humanities Research Council funded project ‘External
agreement’ (Principal Investigator: Marina Chumakina; Co-Investigator:
Oliver Bond).</p>
<p>Full details about the post, including a job description and how to apply, are available here:<br></p>
<p><a href="https://jobs.surrey.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=006118" title="Vacancy for Research Fellow in the Surrey Morphology Group" target="_blank">https://jobs.surrey.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=006118</a><br></p>
<p>The project is a study of external agreement, a linguistic phenomenon
whereby agreement is expressed on typologically unusual targets such as
adverbs, adpositions and pronouns, yet is controlled not by the
immediate syntactic head of the target, but by the subject or
grammatically privileged argument of the clause.</p>
<p>While agreeing prepositions are familiar from languages such as Welsh
and Breton, in these languages the form of preposition depends on the
grammatical properties of the noun it introduces. A situation where the
form of a preposition changes depending on the properties of the clausal
subject (i.e. a controller external to its immediate phrase) has, until
now, escaped linguistic analysis altogether. This is external
agreement, a type of agreement which does not respect the syntactic
constituency of a sentence, but connects elements which belong to
different syntactic phrases.</p>
<p>Despite its typological scarcity, external agreement appears with
fascinating regularity in languages of the Nakh-Daghestanian family
spoken in the Caucasus: there are 17 languages with diachronically
unrelated instances of external agreement. Such an abundance of examples
appearing in languages with considerable variation in their syntactic
systems makes external agreement in Nakh-Daghestanian an ideal
opportunity for research into morphosyntactic, semantic and pragmatic
mechanisms which regulate not only agreement, but also the less obvious
relationships between syntactic elements in a sentence.</p>
<p>Our research questions are: (1) What are the syntactic constraints on
external agreement? (2) What are the morphosyntactic properties of
external agreement? (3) How is external agreement constrained within
systems with multiple controllers? (4) How does external agreement
develop?</p>
<p>The project involves regular fieldwork in Daghestan (approximately 1
month per year); the project activities will also include the
construction of a linguistic database.</p>
<p>The successful candidate should have a background in typological
linguistics and sound understanding of syntactic theory and analysis.
Familiarity with formal models of syntax is highly desirable. Experience
of conducting fieldwork and a working command of Russian is essential
for carrying out fieldwork in Daghestan; evidence of skills relevant for
database design and construction would be a plus. Candidates must have
the ability to work independently while functioning as part of a
research team. The position is available from 1 May 2018. </p>
<p>The successful candidate will work as a member of Surrey Morphology
Group. The SMG’s current research includes fieldwork (on Daghestanian,
Oto-Manguean, Slavonic, Nilotic, Papuan and Tibeto-Burman languages),
morphological theory (especially Network Morphology), linguistic
typology (including Canonical Typology) and computational modelling.</p>
<p>Further information about the Surrey Morphology Group and their current research projects is available at <a href="http://www.smg.surrey.ac.uk" title="Surrey Morhphology Group" target="_blank">http://www.smg.surrey.ac.uk/</a>. </p>
Informal enquiries may be made to Dr Marina Chumakina (<a href="mailto:m.chumakina@surrey.ac.uk" title="Marina Chumakina">m.chumakina@surrey.ac.uk</a>), or Dr Oliver Bond (<a href="mailto:o.bond@surrey.ac.uk" title="Oliver Bond">o.bond@surrey.ac.uk</a>).<div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><u> </u></div><div> </div><div>Dr. Oliver Bond<br> <br>Senior Lecturer in Linguistics<br> <br>Surrey Morphology Group<br>School of Literature and Languages<br>University of Surrey<br>Guildford<br>GU2 7XH<br>UK<br> <br>Telephone: +44 (0)1483 689957<br>Email: <a href="mailto:o.bond@surrey.ac.uk" target="_blank">o.bond@surrey.ac.uk</a><br>Room: 01AC05, AC Building, fifth floor<br><br></div><div><a href="http://www.smg.surrey.ac.uk/bond" target="_blank">www.smg.surrey.ac.uk/bond</a></div><div><a href="http://www.smg.surrey.ac.uk/bond" target="_blank"></a><br></div><div><a href="http://morph.surrey.ac.uk" target="_blank">http://morph.surrey.ac.uk</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><br>Recent publications:<br><br></div><div>Bond, Oliver, Greville G. Corbett, Marina Chumakina and Dunstan Brown (eds.). 2016. <i>Archi: Complexities of agreement in cross-theoretical perspectives</i>. Oxford: Oxford University Press.<br><span><a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/archi-9780198747291?cc=gb&lang=en&" target="_blank">Available now from OUP</a><br></span><br></div><div>Bond, Oliver. 2016. Negation through reduplication and tone: Implications for the Lexical Functional Grammar/Paradigm Function Morphology interface. <i>Journal of Linguistics</i>, 52, 2: 277-310. <br>doi: <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0022226715000134" target="_blank">10.1017/S002222671500013</a><br><br></div><div>Bond, Oliver and Gregory D. S. Anderson. 2014. Aspectual and focal functions of
Cognate-Head-Dependent Constructions: Evidence from Africa. <i>Linguistic Typology</i>,
18, 2: 215-250.
<br>doi: <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/lingty-2014-0010" target="_blank">10.1515/lingty-2014-0010</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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