28.2475, Jobs: Anthropological Linguistics; Language Documentation; Typology: Assistant Professor and Research Fellow, James Cook University Australia

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Subject: 28.2475, Jobs: Anthropological Linguistics; Language Documentation; Typology: Assistant Professor and Research Fellow, James Cook University Australia

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Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2017 11:50:53
From: Alexandra Aikhenvald [Alexandra.Aikhenvald at jcu.edu.au]
Subject: Anthropological Linguistics; Language Documentation; Typology: Assistant Professor and Research Fellow, James Cook University Australia

 
University or Organization: James Cook University Australia 
Department: Language and Culture Research Centre
Job Location: Cairns, North Queensland, Australia 
Job Title: Research Fellowship in Linguistics
Job Rank: Assistant Professor; Australian Level B

Specialty Areas: Anthropological Linguistics; Language Documentation; Typology 


Description:

FIVE YEAR RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP IN LINGUISTICS — JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY AUSTRALIA

Great opportunity for a Research Fellow with a focus on linguistics to make a
significant contribution to the Language & Cultural Research Centre at JCU.
- Work for a world-leading University
- Opportunity to work on your own approved research project  
- $89,859 - $106,029 plus 17% superannuation

We offer an exciting opportunity for a Research Fellow to join our
world-leading institution at James Cook University (JCU). Initially a fixed
term appointment to December 2022, this position is based at the Cairns campus
in picturesque tropical north Queensland, where you can enjoy a tropical
lifestyle whilst still achieving your career goals.

About the position:
 
Under the leadership of the Directors of the Language and Cultural Research
Centre (LCRC), Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald and R. M. W. Dixon, the Research Fellow
will work within the LCRC to supervise  PhD students who will be writing
theoretically informed grammars of previously undescribed (or scarcely
described) languages. They will also have the opportunity to work on their own
research project, spanning the five-year period of the appointment and dealing
with a focal issue in typology, or cross-linguistic research focused on a
language family or an area (cast in terms of basic linguistic theory).

Key duties:

- Work on your approved research project; 
- Make significant contributions to the Centre’s research profile through
participation in research activities, outputs and collaborations;
- Supervise and co-supervise PhD students within the Language and Culture
Research Centre;
- Publish academic papers, and monographs, and present papers at scholarly
forums.

Prospective applicants will also have their own research project, spanning the
five-year period of the appointment and dealing with a focal issue in
typology, or cross-linguistic research focused on a language family or an area
(cast in terms of basic linguistic theory). The applicant should provide a
summary (of not more than 1000 words) setting out their proposed research
project. This should include (a) outline of the topic to be investigated, (b)
methodology to be followed, and (c) projected outcomes (book, papers, etc).
The applicant is also expected to provide the names of two academic referees.
The applicants are encouraged to contact Distinguished Professor Aikhenvald
(aliexandra.aikhenvald at jcu.edu.au) in the first place.

Already holding a doctoral degree or have a doctoral thesis under examination
(the doctorate will have to be confirmed before the appointment is taken up)
in descriptive linguistics with a research focus on a non-European language or
languages, you will have experience of linguistic fieldwork and will, ideally,
have already completed a grammatical description of a language that had not
previously been described in terms of basic linguistic theory (not your native
language). The University may consider cases in which the period since the
award of the doctorate is in excess of five years (due to special
circumstances). 

Please apply through the link below (job reference number 16036).

Located in the College of Arts, Society and Education, the LCRC brings
together linguists, anthropologists, social scientists and those working in
the humanities with the primary aim to investigate the relationship between
language and the cultural behaviour of those who speak it, and the relations
between anthropology, cognition studies and linguistics. Visit us at
http://research.jcu.edu.au/lcrc



Application Deadline: 16-Jul-2017 
	  
Web Address for Applications: https://www.jcu.edu.au/careers-at-jcu/vacancies 
Contact Information:
	Distinguished Professor Alexandra Aikhenvald 
	Email: Alexandra.Aikhenvald at jcu.edu.au 
	Phone: 61 7 42321117 
	Fax: 61 7 4232 1880 


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