29.4317, Support: Tibeto-Burman; General Linguistics; Language Documentation; Phonology; Syntax; Typology: PhD, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz

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Subject: 29.4317, Support: Tibeto-Burman; General Linguistics; Language Documentation; Phonology; Syntax; Typology: PhD, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz

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Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2018 11:23:20
From: Uta Reinöhl [uta.reinoehl at gmail.com]
Subject: Tibeto-Burman; General Linguistics; Language Documentation; Phonology; Syntax; Typology: PhD, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany

 Institution/Organization: Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz 
Department: Department of English and Linguistics 
Web Address: https://www.linguistik.fb05.uni-mainz.de/ 

Level: PhD 

Duties: Research
 
Specialty Areas: Language Documentation; Phonology; Syntax; Typology 
 

                      Tibeto-Burman 

Description:

PhD position, corpus and field research on a Tibeto-Burman language

Applications are invited to fill a PhD position in the research group
“Non-hierarchicality in grammar. Construction formation without word class
distinction across categories and languages” (Emmy Noether Group, DFG (German
Research Foundation)) led by PI Dr. Uta Reinöhl at the Department of English
and Linguistics of the University of Mainz (Germany).

The PhD candidate will participate in the description of a Tibeto-Burman
language spoken in Northeast India. Her/his research focus may be in
phonology, phonetics, syntax, or in related fields. S/he will collaborate with
the principal investigator in building up a language documentation corpus.
Short field trips will be part of the research programme. S/he will conduct
research with other PhD candidates and the principal investigator on complex
expressions combining elements of the same syntactic class,
cross-linguistically and cross-categorially. S/he will be involved in
collaborative research with project partners from the Australian National
University and the University of Cologne. 

The ideal candidate has:
- An MA degree (or an equivalent degree that allows for entering a doctoral
programme) in linguistics, phonetics or in a related field by the end of
February 2019
- Research interests in one or several of the following sub-disciplines:
phonology, phonetics, syntax, morpho-syntax, typology, language documentation
- A keen interest in working on an under-documented, endangered Tibeto-Burman
language
- A keen interest in building up a language documentation corpus and in
participating in short field trips
- Social skills facilitating collaborative research with native speakers as
well as within the research unit
- (Optionally) language competence in Hindi or another New Indo-Aryan language
and/or in a Tibeto-Burman language

Further information on the research unit can be found here:
http://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/406074683

Planned starting date: March 1st 2019
Funding: E13 TV-L (65%) – Three years (with a possible extension to four
years)

Applications from severely disabled persons with equivalent qualifications
will be given preference.

All application documents (a letter of motivation, CV, course transcript,
certificates of completed degrees, two examples of representative written
work, two names of references) should be sent by email to
uta.reinoehl at gmail.com. Any enquiries can be sent to the same address.
 

Application Deadline: 10-Dec-2018 

Web Address for Applications: https://www.linguistik.fb05.uni-mainz.de/ma-linguistik/jobsuche/ 

Contact Information: 
	Uta Reinöhl 
	uta.reinoehl at gmail.com  


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