21.2811, Support: Anthro Ling, Lang Documentation: PhD Student,La Trobe U,Australia

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Date: 03-Jul-2010
From: Randy LaPolla < r.lapolla at latrobe.edu.au >
Subject: Anthropological Linguistics, Language Documentation: PhD Student, La Trobe University, Australia
 

	
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Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2010 23:22:31
From: Randy LaPolla [r.lapolla at latrobe.edu.au]
Subject: Anthropological Linguistics, Language Documentation: PhD Student, La Trobe University, Australia

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Institution/Organization: La Trobe University 
Department: Research Centre for Linguistic Typology 
Web Address: http://www.latrobe.edu.au/ 

Level: PhD 

Duties: Research
 
Specialty Areas: Anthropological Linguistics; Language Documentation 
 

Description:

PhD positions in Language Description and Documentation at the Research Centre 
for Linguistic Typology

The Research Centre for Linguistic Typology (RCLT) at La Trobe University in 
Melbourne, Australia (http://www.latrobe.edu.au/rclt) invites applications from 
suitably qualified students to enter its PhD program.

The RCLT is committed to comprehensively analysing the linguistic structures of 
languages that are endangered or have previously been little studied or are 
completely undescribed. 

PhD candidates at the RCLT undertake extensive fieldwork on their chosen 
language. Following a period of academic preparation at the RCLT, students will 
take a fieldtrip of at least several months duration to the community where the 
language is spoken. Fieldwork methodology centres on the collection, transcription 
and analysis of texts, together with participant observation, and judicious 
grammatical elicitation in the language under description. RCLT students also aim 
at language documentation: recording a range of linguistic styles, and building a 
corpus of linguistic data that can be archived in international digital archives which 
are available to both specialist linguists and the speakers of the language.

PhD candidates aim to write a grammatical description of the language they are 
working on, covering the central areas of language such as phonology, 
morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics and sociolinguistics of that language. 
Candidates may find that some of these areas merit a deeper examination than 
others. Following the completion of a first draft of the thesis, the candidate would 
undertake a second field trip of a further several months, during which time the 
basis and claims of the thesis can be checked. 

The main priorities of the RCLT are Tibeto-Burman languages (Asia), the Papuan 
and Austronesian languages of New Guinea and surrounding islands, the 
languages of Amazonia and of Africa. However, we do not exclude applicants who 
have an established interest in languages from other areas.

PhDs in Australian universities generally involve no coursework, just 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, phonology/phonetics and comparative-historical 
linguistics, preferably taught from a typological/functional perspective. We place 
emphasis on work that has a sound empirical basis and also shows a firm 
grounding in general typological literature and work done on related languages.

The scholarship will be at the standard La Trobe University rate, Australian 
$22,500 p.a.  Students coming from overseas are liable for a tuition fee but this 
can usually be covered by a separate scholarship. 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).

Closing date for international applicants: 30TH SEPTEMBER 2010
Closing date for Australian and New Zealand applicants: 30TH OCTOBER 2010

Prospective applicants are invited, in the first place, to get in touch with the 
Director, Professor Randy J. LaPolla, at r.lapolla at latrobe.edu.au, providing details 
of their background, qualifications and interests (including a curriculum vitae and 
detailed project proposal). 

Application Deadline: 30-Sep-2010 

Mailing Address for Applications:
	Attn: Prof Randy LaPolla 
	RCLT 
	La Trobe University VIC 3086 
	Australia 	
	
Web Address for Applications: http://www.latrobe.edu.au/rclt/ 

Contact Information: 
	Prof Randy LaPolla 
	r.lapolla at latrobe.edu.au 
	Phone:+61 3 9479 6400 
	Fax:+61 3 9479 3053  



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