27.2795, Support: Russian; Cognitive Linguistics; General Linguistics / Norway

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Subject: 27.2795, Support: Russian; Cognitive Linguistics; General Linguistics / Norway

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Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2016 12:03:50
From: Laura A. Janda [laura.janda at uit.no]
Subject: Russian; Cognitive Linguistics; General Linguistics, PhD, UiT, The Arctic University of Norway, Norway

 Institution/Organization: UiT, The Arctic University of Norway 
Department: Language and Culture 
Web Address: http://en.uit.no/startsida 

Level: PhD 

Duties: Research,Teaching,Project Work

Specialty Areas: General Linguistics 
Cognitive Linguistics 
Required Language(s): Russian (rus)

Description:

Doctoral Research Fellowship in Russian Linguistics
Application deadline: August 18th 2016
Application website:
https://www.jobbnorge.no/ledige-stillinger/stilling/127310/doctoral-research-f
ellowship-in-russian-linguistics-at-the-department-of-language-and-culture 

(Full description available at the website.)

One Doctoral Research Fellowship (PhD) in Russian Linguistics is available in
the Department of Language and Culture at the University of Tromsø - The
Arctic University of Norway (UiT). The position is affiliated with the CLEAR
(Cognitive Linguistics: Empirical Approaches to Russian) research group. The
appointment is a fixed term position for a period of four years. For further
information contact professor Laura A. Janda laura.janda at uit.no.

CLEAR (led by Laura Janda and Tore Nesset) focuses primarily on the linguistic
analysis of Russian from the perspective of cognitive linguistics. CLEAR is
engaged in linguistic research on Russian that leads to publications,
presentations at international conferences, language resources such as the
TOROT historical corpus of Russian (http://nestor.uit.no) and the Exploring
Emptiness database (http://emptyprefixes.uit.no/index.php), textbooks and
teaching materials, and language technology applications. 

Among the greatest challenges facing a learner of Russian is a grammatical
category called aspect. Russian verbs express either perfective or
imperfective aspect, referring to the way in which an event is understood,
roughly as either a complete whole or as an unbounded situation. This decision
has to be carried out for virtually every sentence, since nearly every
sentence contains at least one verb, and all forms of a Russian verb express
aspect. It is extremely difficult both for linguists and for language teachers
to explain when to select a perfective or an imperfective verb.

Textbooks devote considerable space to “rules” for using aspect, but nearly
all such rules admit exceptions. These rules present various “triggers” for
use of aspect, such as: “use perfective aspect in the presence of uže
‘already’”, or “use imperfective in the presence of vsegda ‘always’”. Recent
research shows that the triggers for the supposed rules are actually fairly
rare in authentic texts: CLEAR-group member Reynolds (2016) finds that such
triggers co-occur with only about 2% of verbs in a Russian corpus. While the
triggers are generally good indicators of aspect (yielding over 90% correct
guesses according to rules), they aren’t plentiful enough to be useful. In
other words, by focusing on the triggers, we are failing both as linguists to
fully describe the phenomenon and as instructors to give our students adequate
guidance. The aim of this PhD position is to promote a new line of research on
Russian aspect that builds on the scholarly findings of the CLEAR group and
will also yield an important resource for learners of Russian.

Applicants should have a Master’s degree in Russian Linguistics. The
successful applicant will interface with existing research in the CLEAR group,
will have conducted research on Russian linguistics and have excellent
knowledge of both Russian and English. The ideal candidate will also have
excellent knowledge of cognitive linguistics and a strong track-record
indicating publication potential. The applicant must provide a project
proposal (approximately 3 pages total). The applicant must be able to complete
the project within the period of employment. Personal suitability will be
emphasized. Remuneration for the position of PhD Candidate is in accordance
with the State salary scale code 1017. 

The application must be submitted electronically via the application form
available on http://www.jobbnorge.no.

Application Deadline: 18-Aug-2016 

Web Address for Applications: http://www.jobbnorge.no/ 

Contact Information: 
	Laura A. Janda 
	laura.janda at uit.no 
	Phone:+4777645680  

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