11.999, Support: Sound Change - PhD at U of Sheffield/ UK

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Subject: 11.999, Support: Sound Change - PhD at U of Sheffield/ UK

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Date:  Tue, 2 May 2000 14:43:15 +0100
From:  "A.R.Linn" <A.R.Linn at sheffield.ac.uk>
Subject:  Sound Change - PhD Studentship/ Univ of Sheffield, UK

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Date:  Tue, 2 May 2000 14:43:15 +0100
From:  "A.R.Linn" <A.R.Linn at sheffield.ac.uk>
Subject:  Sound Change - PhD Studentship/ Univ of Sheffield, UK

PhD studentship at the University of Sheffield

The Study of Sound Change 1870-1970

A university-funded PhD studentship is available at the University of
Sheffield for a student beginning their research in the academic
year 2000/2001. The studentship is only available to those with UK
/ EU status for fee-paying purposes and provides an award at the
basic research council level. More information about the terms and
conditions of the award and how to apply is available from Fozia
Yasmin (telephone: 0114 222 1410 or e-mail:
<grad.school at shef.ac.uk). The deadline for application is 12 May
2000.

The Project
Linguistics in the nineteenth century focused on language change
and, as the century progressed, predominantly on sound change.
The received view is that sound change then became marginalised
by the twentieth-century emphasis on synchronic linguistics. This
is partly true, and historical phonology has been much ignored by
twentieth-century phonologists, some explicitly denying it a place
in modern phonology. It is partly untrue as there has been a
productive tradition of historical phonology building on the theories
of the so-called 'Neogrammarians', and in fact the linguistic 'rules'
formalised by the Generative phonologists of the 1960s were
clearly analogous to the sound 'laws' stated a century before.

The objectives of the project are as follows:
* to chart the history of the study of sound change from the
'Neogrammarians' at the outset of the 20th century up to the work
of the 'Generativists' who dominated the century's final decades
* to assess whether the received view of the development of
linguistic theory is a fair one, focusing on a specific linguistic topic
* to explain why and how sound change has become marginal
when a century ago it was probably the central concern of
linguistics

Arrangements for supervision
The successful candidate will be a member of the Department of
English Language and Linguistics which forms part of the School of
English. The department is currently in a period of development,
broadening from a focus primarily on earlier varieties of the English
language to include linguistics in both teaching and research, and
this project is designed to reflect the two sides to the department.
The successful candidate will be well supported by academic staff
and other postgraduate students alike. The project will be jointly
supervised by Prof. April McMahon and Dr Andrew Linn. (Dr Linn
will be on leave with a Leverhulme Research Fellowship in
2000/2001, but will still be available for consultation.) More
information about the department may be found at:
http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/academic/D-H/ell .

Requirements
Applications are sought from candidates with a linguistics
background at undergraduate or master's level. Knowledge of
historical linguistics, phonology and the history of linguistics is
desirable, but in-depth knowledge of all three areas is not
compulsory, and any necessary training will be provided. The
precise period studied and the approach taken to the investigation
is negotiable depending on the successful candidate's particular
interests and capabilities. To discuss the project informally, please
contact April McMahon (0114 222 0238 -
April.McMahon at shef.ac.uk) or Andrew Linn (0114 222 0216 -
A.R.Linn at shef.ac.uk).

__________________________________________________
Dr Andrew R. Linn
Department of English Language and Linguistics
The University of Sheffield
GB-Sheffield S10 2TN, England

Tel: +44 (0)114 222 0216
Fax: +44 (0)114 276 8251


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