<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; "><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial; ">PhD scholarship in Linguistics: </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; "><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: normal; font-size: medium; "><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Arial; ">The Languages of Southern New Guinea</span></b></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; "><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial; "><o:p> </o:p></span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; ">School of Behavioural, Cognitive and Social Sciences,</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; "><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; "></span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; ">University of New England (UNE), Armidale NSW</span></b></p><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; "></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; ">Applications are invited for a PhD scholarship offered by UNE as part of an Australia Research Council funded project: The Languages of Southern New Guinea. The scholarship is valued at Aus$30,000 per year for three years. Funds of around Aus$25,000 will also be available for field work expenses.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; ">The ARC Project</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; ">This project will investigate, analyse and record the barely-known languages of Southern New Guinea, stretching across Papua New Guinea and Indonesia just north of Australia. It will produce grammatical descriptions for six of the thirty languages of the area, plus a comparative database and handbook of the languages of the region.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; ">The successful candidate will be based at UNE and work on a language of the M</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: ArialMT; ">orehead-Maro family, in the Morehead district of Papua New Guinea. S/he will </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; ">be part of a research team headed by Prof Nicholas Evans of the Australian National University (ANU), and including Prof Jeff Siegel at UNE, and Dr Wayan Arka and two PhD students at ANU.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; ">Requirements</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; ">Applicants should hold an Honours or Masters degree in Linguistics, or an equivalent qualification.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; ">Starting date</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; ">The successful candidate will start at UNE any time between 29 August 2011 and 9 January 2012.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; ">Application process and further information</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; ">The closing date for applications is 4 April 2011. For information about the application process (or for further information about the scholarship), contact Prof Jeff Siegel <<a href="mailto:jsiegel@une.edu.au">jsiegel@une.edu.au</a>>, +61 2 6773 3203. </span></p><div><div><br></div></div></body></html>