27.2552, Support: Historical Linguistics / Netherlands

Fri Jun 10 14:09:41 UTC 2016

LINGUIST List: Vol-27-2552. Fri Jun 10 2016. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 27.2552, Support: Historical Linguistics / Netherlands

Moderators: linguist at linguistlist.org (Damir Cavar, Malgorzata E. Cavar)
Reviews: reviews at linguistlist.org (Anthony Aristar, Helen Aristar-Dry, Robert Coté, Sara Couture)
Homepage: http://linguistlist.org

*****************    LINGUIST List Support    *****************
                       Fund Drive 2016
                   25 years of LINGUIST List!
Please support the LL editors and operation with a donation at:
           http://funddrive.linguistlist.org/donate/

Editor for this issue: Amanda Foster <amanda at linguistlist.org>
================================================================

Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2016 10:09:25
From: Merel van Wijk [m.m.van.wijk at hum.leidenuniv.nl]
Subject: Historical Linguistics, PhD, Universiteit Leiden, Netherlands

 Institution/Organization: Universiteit Leiden 
Department: LUCL 
Web Address: https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/humanities/leiden-university-centre-for-linguistics 

Level: PhD 

Duties: Research,Project Work

Specialty Areas: Historical Linguistics 

Description:

Project Description

The Dardanelles, the Sea of Marmara, and the Bosporus form the most important
natural boundary between Europe and the Near East, and the regions
encompassing these waterways have therefore always been the area where East
and West collide, being home to all kinds of mixture of peoples and languages.

Yet, very little is known about the ethnolinguistic situation in this border
area in pre-Roman times, due to an almost complete lack of written sources
from this period. Exciting new discoveries in Daskyleion (a city that from
550-330 BC functioned as the seat of the Persian satrap that ruled North West
Anatolia) may change this. During recent excavations, executed by the
University of Muğla, a multitude of pot shards have been unearthed with Greek,
Phrygian, and Lydian graffiti on them, giving a first insight into the
linguistic landscape of this area in pre-Roman times.

Key responsibilities:

The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL) invites candidates for a
PhD position to write a dissertation on the topic of ‘language contact and
genetic relationship in pre-Roman North West Anatolia’ (under supervision of
prof.dr. A.M. Lubotsky and dr. A. Kloekhorst), with the following duties:

- To cooperate in producing a full description and analysis of the graffiti
that thus far have been excavated at Daskyleion.
- To reconstruct the nature and origins of the linguistic landscape of North
West Anatolia in the first millennium BCE, using the following approaches /
sources:
a. Historical sources: 2nd millennium sources, classical authors, epigraphic
material;
b. Archaeological sources;
c. Historical linguistics: the genetic relationships between the languages
from this region; especially the genetic affiliation of Phrygian is likely to
provide important clues and will therefore form a major part of the research;
- Contact linguistics: how did the languages of this region influence each
other?

Apart from writing a PhD thesis, the candidate will also carry out the
following tasks:

- Submitting research results for publication in peer-reviewed academic
journals;
- Presenting papers at (international) conferences;
- Some teaching in the second and third year of the appointment;
- Organizing and participating in reading and discussions groups, seminars,
workshops within LUCL.

Selection Criteria:

- You have a completed MA or equivalent degree in Comparative Indo-European
Linguistics, Classics, or any other relevant field;
- You have demonstrable affinity with historical linguistics and good working
knowledge of Greek and preferably of any of the other languages mentioned in
the advertisement;
- You have a curious, enterprising and creative mind and excellent analytical
skills, evidence of which should emerge from the MA thesis;
- Good writing skills;
- Proficiency in English.

Application Deadline: 24-Jun-2016 

Web Address for Applications: http://goo.gl/UV26bw 

Contact Information: 
	A. Kloekhorst 
	a.kloekhorst at hum.leidenuniv.nl  

------------------------------------------------------------------------------

*****************    LINGUIST List Support    *****************
                       Fund Drive 2016
Please support the LL editors and operation with a donation at:
            http://funddrive.linguistlist.org/donate/

This year the LINGUIST List hopes to raise $79,000. This money 
will go to help keep the List running by supporting all of our 
Student Editors for the coming year.

Don't forget to check out Fund Drive 2016 site!

http://funddrive.linguistlist.org/

For all information on donating, including information on how to 
donate by check, money order, PayPal or wire transfer, please visit:
http://funddrive.linguistlist.org/donate/

The LINGUIST List is under the umbrella of Indiana University and
as such can receive donations through Indiana University Foundation. We
also collect donations via eLinguistics Foundation, a registered 501(c)
Non Profit organization with the federal tax number 45-4211155. Either
way, the donations can be offset against your federal and sometimes your
state tax return (U.S. tax payers only). For more information visit the
IRS Web-Site, or contact your financial advisor.

Many companies also offer a gift matching program, such that
they will match any gift you make to a non-profit organization.
Normally this entails your contacting your human resources department
and sending us a form that the Indiana University Foundation fills in
and returns to your employer. This is generally a simple administrative
procedure that doubles the value of your gift to LINGUIST, without
costing you an extra penny. Please take a moment to check if
your company operates such a program.

Thank you very much for your support of LINGUIST!

----------------------------------------------------------
LINGUIST List: Vol-27-2552	
----------------------------------------------------------
Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated
from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:
          http://multitree.org/