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I would like to let you-all and prospective applicants know that this year's round of PhD scholarships at the LCRC (JCU) is open.</div>
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Here is the announcement (word and pdf), and our most recent Newsbulletin, showing what we are doing this year.</div>
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<p align="left" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><font color="#000000" face="Times" size="3">Applications are invited, from suitably qualified students, to enter the PhD program of the Language and Culture Research Centre at James Cook University Australia. Supervision
will be provided by Professor Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, Professor R. M. W. Dixon, Dr Alexander Walker, Dr Luca Ciucci, Professor Rosita Henry, and Dr Michael Wood.</font></p>
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</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 six to 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 Papuan and Austronesian languages of New Guinea and surrounding areas, and the languages of tropical Amazonia. However, we do not exclude applicants who have an established interest in languages from other areas (which
need not necessarily lie within the tropics).</font></font></font></p>
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</span>PhDs in Australian universities involve limited advanced coursework and a substantial dissertation. Candidates must thus have had 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></font></p>
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</span>Distinguished Professor Alexandra (Sasha) Aikhenvald is Australian Laureate Fellow and Research Leader for People and Societies of the Tropics. Together with Professor R. M. W. Dixon, she heads the Language and Culture Research Centre, which includes
Research Fellows and a growing number of doctoral students. In addition, senior scholars from across the world opt to spend their sabbatical at the Language and Culture Research Centre.</font></font></font></p>
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</span>The LCRC has strong links with anthropologists, archaeologists and educationalists, with scholars working on environmental issues, all within James Cook University. Further information is available at
</font><a href="http://www.jcu.edu.au/lcrc/"><font color="#0000ff">http://www.jcu.edu.au/lcrc/</font></a></span></p>
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</span>The scholarship will be at the standard James Cook University rate, Australian $27.592 pa. in 2019. Students coming from overseas are liable for a tuition fee; but this will be waived if a scholarship is awarded. A small relocation allowance may be provided
on taking up the scholarship. In addition, an adequate allowance will be made to cover fieldwork expenses and conference attendance.
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</span>The scholarship is for three and a half years. The deadline for application (starting in 2020) is 30 September 2019.</font></font></font></p>
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</span>Successful applicants would take up their PhD scholarships between January and June 2020. (The academic year in Australia runs from February to November.)</font></font></font></p>
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</span>Application form and procedures for international students can be found at:
</font></font></font><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><a href="https://www.jcu.edu.au/graduate-research-school/candidates/postgraduate-research-scholarships"><font color="#0000ff">https://www.jcu.edu.au/graduate-research-school/candidates/postgraduate-research-scholarships</font></a></span><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HE;">
</span><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 11pt;">(JCUPRS scholarships).
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><font size="3">Online applications will be open in July.</font></span></font></p>
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</span>Prospective applicants are invited, in the first place, to get in touch with Professor Alexandra Aikhenvald at
</font></font></font><a><font color="#000000" face="Times" size="3">Alexandra.Aikhenvald@jcu.edu.au</font></a><font color="#000000" face="Times" size="3">, 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></p>
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<p class="ecxMsoPlainText"><span>Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, PhD, DLitt, FAHA, FQAAS</span>
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<p class="ecxMsoPlainText"><span>Distinguished Professor and Australian Laureate Fellow</span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoPlainText"><span>Director of the Language and Culture Research Centre</span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoPlainText"><span>James Cook University</span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoPlainText"><span>PO Box 6811, Cairns, Queensland 4870, Australia</span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoPlainText"><span>http://www.jcu.edu.au/faess/JCUPRD_043649.html</span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoPlainText"><span>mobile 0400 305315, office 61-7-40421117</span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoPlainText"><span>fax 61-7-4042 1880 http://www.aikhenvaldlinguistics.com/</span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoPlainText"><span><a href="https://research.jcu.edu.au/researchatjcu/research/lcrc" target="_blank">https://research.jcu.edu.au/researchatjcu/research/lcrc</a></span></p>
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