<div dir="ltr"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext">PhD
Top-up
scholarship in Linguistics within cross-corpus DoBeS project on
three-participant events</span></b>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b><span> </span></b></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span>Faculty/School: <span> </span>Faculty of Arts, School of
Languages, Cultures
& Linguistics</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span>Location: <span> </span>Clayton Campus,
Melbourne</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span>Scholarship tenure: <span> </span>3 years full
time, beginning in 2014</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span>Scholarship value: <span> </span>$6,750 per
annum (conditions
apply)</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span><span>
</span>Laptop
& standard software up to a value of $1700</span></p>
<h1 style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt"><span>Closing Date:</span><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext">
<span> </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext">31
October 2013</span><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext"></span></h1>
<p class=""><span> </span></p>
<p class=""><span>The
project <b><i>Cross-linguistic
patterns in the encoding of three-participant events</i></b><i> </i>started in June 2013
as a cross-corpus
project of the Documentation of Endangered Languages Program
(DoBeS) of the
Volkswagen Foundation (<a href="http://www.mpi.nl/DOBES/" target="_blank"><span>http://www.mpi.nl/DOBES/</span></a>);
<span> </span>chief investigator: <b>Anna Margetts</b> (Monash University), co-applicants:
<b>Nikolaus Himmelmann</b>
(University of
Cologne) and <b>Katharina
Haude</b> (CNRS,
Paris).<span> </span>We are inviting
applications for
a second PhD Top-up scholarship within the project.</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15pt"><b><span>Project
summary: </span></b><span lang="EN-GB">The
project investigates the linguistic encoding of events which
involve three
participants. It brings together three areas of study: the
encoding of
three-participant events, the typological parameter of basic
valence
orientation, and the field of text-based typology. (For more
details see the
project description further below). </span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b><span style>PhD
project</span></b><span style>: The PhD
project will be
concerned with the encoding of three-participant events and
basic valence
orientation, either (a) across the participating DoBeS language
projects, (b) across
a larger sample of languages or (c) in an individual language,
e.g. on the
basis of original fieldwork.</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b><span style> </span></b></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b><span style>Candidate
Requirements:
</span></b><span style>Applicants should have a very good
undergraduate
degree in linguistics, preferably a </span><span>first-class Honours or
Master's degree. They are expected to have</span><span style> a
strong background
in linguistic typology and the morpho-syntactic analysis of
natural language
data, preferably of under-documented non-Indo-European
languages. Experience in
working with linguistic text corpora of spoken language and with
software
programs such as ELAN and TOOLBOX is desirable. </span><span>The successful
applicant will
take on selected research and administrative tasks within the
project.<br>
<br>
</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style>The
successful applicant
will be part of a research group investigating three-participant
events from a
cross-linguistics perspective which will include the three
project
investigators, representatives of the participating DoBeS teams
and a further
PhD student working in the project. They will be based in the
Linguistics
Program at Monash University which has a strong research
track-record in linguistic
analysis and documentation, in particular of languages of
Austronesia and
Australia. The supervision team will include Anna Margetts and
other members of
the Linguistics Program.<span> </span>Consult
the
websites below for further information: <br>
<a href="http://artsonline.monash.edu.au/linguistics/research/" target="_blank"><span>http://artsonline.monash.edu.au/linguistics/research/</span></a></span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style><a href="http://artsonline.monash.edu.au/linguistics/our-staff/" target="_blank"><span>http://artsonline.monash.edu.au/linguistics/our-staff/</span></a>
</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style> </span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style>Candidates
will be based
at Monash’s Clayton Campus and will be expected to start by
early 2014. </span><b><span style>The top-up scholarship will be contingent on the
candidate
successfully applying for an Australian Postgraduate Award
(APA) or Monash
Graduate Scholarship (MGS) </span></b><span style>(or on an Australian candidate being self-funding).
</span><span style="color:blue"><a href="http://www.monash.edu.au/migr/support/scholarships/major/" target="_blank"><span>http://www.monash.edu.au/migr/support/scholarships/major/</span></a></span><span style></span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style> </span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">International
students
should note that the scholarship does not cover
foreign-student
tuition fees.</span></b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">
However, for outstanding applicants there is opportunity to
apply for
additional tuition fee scholarships. Interested applicants are
strongly advised
to refer to the website below for more information. Candidates
will be required
to meet Monash entry requirements which may include English
language skills. </span><u><span style="color:blue"><a href="http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/hdr/studyoptions/" target="_blank"><span>http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/hdr/studyoptions/</span></a>phd.php</span></u><span style="color:blue"></span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b><span style> </span></b></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b><span style>How to
apply</span></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span>
</span></span></span><span style>Send the following documentation as email
attachments by </span><b><span style>31
October 2013 </span></b><span style>to<br>
Anna Margetts: </span><i><span style><a href="mailto:anna.margetts@monash.edu" target="_blank"><span>anna.margetts@monash.edu</span></a> </span></i><b><span style><span> </span></span></b><span style>(put “PhD
Top-up” in the
subject line):</span><i><span style></span></i></p>
<p><span><span>o<span>
</span></span></span><span style>a covering letter </span>outlining relevant
training and
experience<span style>
and stating
the language(s) you intend to work on</span><i><span style></span></i></p>
<p><span><span>o<span>
</span></span></span><span style>CV </span><i><span style></span></i></p>
<p><span><span>o<span>
</span></span></span><span style>academic </span>transcripts <i><span style></span></i></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-GB"><span>·<span>
</span></span></span><span style>Apply for an Australian Postgraduate Award (APA) or
Monash
Graduate Scholarship (MGS) <b>by 31 October
2013 </b>(<a href="http://www.monash.edu.au/migr/support/scholarships/major/" target="_blank"><span>http://www.monash.edu.au/migr/support/scholarships/major/</span></a>)
</span><span lang="EN-GB"></span></p>
<p class=""><b><span lang="EN-GB">Further funding
possibilities:</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> PhD candidates</span> are eligible
to apply for additional funding, including for conference travel
and fieldwork
support, from a range of sources within Monash University:</p>
<p><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span>Monash University: <br>
<a href="http://www.law.monash.edu.au/research/hdr/hdr-support-fund.html" target="_blank">http://www.law.monash.edu.au/research/hdr/hdr-support-fund.html</a>
<span> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span>Faculty of Arts:<br>
<a href="http://arts.monash.edu.au/research/graduate-research/current-students/grants-prizes/index.php" target="_blank">http://arts.monash.edu.au/research/graduate-research/current-students/grants-prizes/index.php</a>
</p>
<p><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span>School of Languages,
Cultures and Linguistics:<br>
<a href="http://arts.monash.edu.au/lcl/pgrad/grants.php" target="_blank">http://arts.monash.edu.au/lcl/pgrad/grants.php</a>
</p>
<p><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span>Linguistics Program <br>
<a href="http://arts.monash.edu.au/lcl/pgrad/field-edith-lahr.php" target="_blank">http://arts.monash.edu.au/lcl/pgrad/field-edith-lahr.php</a>
</p>
<h2 style="margin:18pt 0cm 12pt;line-height:15pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:windowtext">Project description: </span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:windowtext;font-weight:normal" lang="EN-GB">The project investigates the linguistic encoding
of events which involve three participants. It brings together
three areas of
study: the encoding of three-participant events, the typological
parameter of
basic valence orientation, and the field of text-based typology.
</span></h2>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15pt"><span lang="EN-GB">In recent years the
topic of
three-participant events has received growing attention. </span>Such
events
include any scenario involving three participants, e.g. those
encoded by
transactional verbs like ‘give’ and ‘show’, placement verbs like
‘put’, and
benefactive constructions like ‘do something for someone’. There
is
considerable variation cross-linguistically as well as within
individual
languages in how the three involved participants are encoded. </p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15pt"><span lang="EN-GB">Earlier work on
three-participant
events tends to focus on syntactic three-place predicates, i.e.
constructions
with three syntactic arguments. Some of the more recent studies,
including
Margetts and Austin (2007), investigate a fuller range of
linguistic strategies
for encoding such events, including three-place predicates and
their subtypes
but also a range of functional alternative constructions many of
which are </span>syntactically
two-place but express a third participant by other means –
morphological,
syntactic or pragmatic.<span> </span><span lang="EN-GB">(Examples
of alternative strategies include, e.g. clauses with two-place
predicates which
encode a recipient by means of directional markers, or a
beneficiary by means
of possessive morphology.)</span><span lang="EN-GB"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:3pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15pt"><span lang="EN-GB">The
project investigates three-participant events from a
cross-linguistic and
text-based perspective focussing on DoBeS corpus data from
Austronesian
(Oceanic and non-Oceanic) and Papuan languages and from
languages of North and
South America. It will address two sets of topics: </span></p>
<p class=""><span lang="EN-GB"><span>(A)<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB">Morpho-syntactic
strategies for encoding
three-participant events and their pairing with semantic event
types:</span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc"><li class="" style="margin-bottom:3pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15pt"><span lang="EN-GB">What strategies
for encoding three-participant events exist in the sample
languages and what is their relative frequency? </span></li></ul>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc"><li class="" style="margin-bottom:3pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15pt"><span lang="EN-GB">Are there
correlations between semantic event types and specific
morpho-syntactic encoding strategies?</span></li></ul>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc"><li class="" style="margin-bottom:3pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15pt"><span lang="EN-GB">Do certain
strategies tend to co-occur in a language and is it possible
to identify language types on this basis?</span></li><li class="" style="margin-bottom:3pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15pt"><span lang="EN-GB">Is it possible to
formulate any implicational hierarchies?</span></li><li class="" style="margin-bottom:9pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15pt"><span lang="EN-GB">Can the
morpho-syntactic strategies listed in Margetts and Austin
(2007) be extended by further types or sub-types?</span></li></ul>
<p class=""><span lang="EN-GB"><span>(B)<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB">Possible
correlations between the encoding of
three-participant events and the classification of a language in
terms of basic
valence orientation, in the sense of Nichols et al. (2004):</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-GB"><span>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB">Are there any
correlations between a language’s
classification in terms of its basic valence orientation (as
transitivising or
detransitivising, etc.), and the set of strategies which are
found in the
language or which are most commonly employed for the expression
of
three-participant events?</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15pt"><span lang="EN-GB">By
investigating both three-participant events and the parameter of
basic valence
orientation the project brings together two independent areas of
study which
are important in their own right and which have not been
previously researched
in relation to each other. If typological parameters like basic
valence
orientation and choice of encoding strategies for
three-participant events can
be shown to be connected and form a network of interrelated
features this would
open a new field of investigation in terms of lexical and
grammatical
expressions of valence and strengthen the parameters’ scientific
importance,
typological value and scope. </span>The project applies
methodologies of
text-based typology to the study of three-participant events and
basic valence
orientation which allows us to address questions which could not
be answered by
earlier approaches.<span lang="EN-GB"></span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:150%"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:150%">References: </span></b></p>
<p class="" style="margin-left:1cm"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%">Margetts, Anna and Austin, Peter K. (2007).
"Three-participant
events in the languages of the world: towards a cross-linguistic
typology." <i>Linguistics</i> <b>45</b>(3): 393-452.</span></p>
<span style="font-size:10pt">Nichols,
Johanna, David
A. Peterson, and Jonathan Barnes. (2004). "Transitivizing and
detransitivizing languages." <i>Linguistic Typology</i> <b>8</b>:
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