28.513, Support: General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Pragmatics; Semantics; Syntax / Israel

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Subject: 28.513, Support:  General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Pragmatics; Semantics; Syntax / Israel

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Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2017 14:47:19
From: Nora Boneh [nora.boneh at mail.huji.ac.il]
Subject: General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Pragmatics; Semantics; Syntax, PhD, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

 Institution/Organization: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 
Department: Mandel Scholion Interdisciplinary Research Center in the Humanities and Jewish Studies 
Web Address: http://en.scholion.huji.ac.il/ 

Level: PhD 

Duties: Research

Specialty Areas: General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Pragmatics; Semantics; Syntax 

Description:

The "Historical Linguistics and Formal Semantics" research group, which will
operate during the academic years 2017/18-2019/20 at the Mandel Scholion
Interdisciplinary Research Center in the Humanities and Jewish Studies of the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is offering four three-year scholarships for
doctoral students.

The aim of the research group is to better our understanding of natural
language by combining two areas of linguistic research whose integration is
still nascent: historical linguistics and formal semantics. The group will
jointly explore, in a systematic manner, how studies in historical linguistics
and in semantics can contribute to one another. It will strive to draw
conclusions about the properties of a variety of semantic categories, their
universality, and the mechanisms underlying recurring shifts in meanings over
time, or paths of semantic change, within these categories.

The group will be led by Elitzur Bar-Asher Siegal, Nora Boneh, Eitan Grossman,
and Aynat Rubinstein. For a summary of its aims, please see the project
proposal here. 

We welcome candidates with excellent research qualifications and an interest
in language change and formal linguistics. Prior training in one of these
areas is a prerequisite.

Recipients of the scholarships, who must register by October 2017 as doctoral
students at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, will receive excellent working
conditions for the three years of the scholarship at the Mandel Scholion
Center on the University’s Mount Scopus campus, including office space close
to the project leaders and a yearly grant of 75,000 NIS. Recipients will be
expected to devote these three years to writing their doctoral dissertations.
Moreover, it is expected that they will be present at the Mandel Scholion
Center four days a week and participate in the group’s activities and those of
the Center, which is an interdisciplinary research center devoted to the
promotion of excellent research in a wide variety of disciplines. Recipients
of the scholarship are not permitted to engage in additional work during this
period, other than possibly serving as teaching and research assistants at the
Hebrew University.

Applicants should send the following documents to scholion at savion.huji.ac.il :

- CV
- Research statement (2 pages)
- Transcripts of BA and MA

They should also ask two scholars familiar with them and their work to submit
recommendations directly to the above address.

Deadline for application: 2 March 2017
Interviews for finalists (in person or on Skype) will take place on 16 March
2017.

Contact information: 

Eitan Grossman (eitan.grossman at mail.huji.ac.il)
Aynat Rubinstein (aynat.rubinstein at mail.huji.ac.il)

Application Deadline: 02-Mar-2017 

Mailing Address for Applications:
	Attn: scholion at savion.huji.ac.il 

Contact Information: 
	Dr. Aynat Rubinstein
	Dept: Mandel Scholion Interdisciplinary Research Center in the Humanities and Jewish Studies
	Email: aynat.rubinstein at mail.huji.ac.il  

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