Research position

[Johan van der Auwera]

                           University of Surrey

         SCHOOL OF LANGUAGE AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES

       RESEARCH FELLOW IN THE SURREY MORPHOLOGY GROUP

Starting salary up to 17,750 pounds per annum, depending on age and
experience.

Applications are invited for a three-year post on an ESRC-funded project
"A Typology of
Syncretism". The post will be in the Surrey Morphology Group, which
specializes in
typology, particularly the application of formal and statistical
approaches to typology. The
project will be directed by Professor Greville Corbett and Dr Dunstan
Brown.

Candidates should have wide-ranging interests within linguistics. A good
post-graduate
degree in linguistics is highly desirable. An interest in any of the
following would be
advantageous: typology, morphological theory, syntactic theory, Russian,
other languages
(especially from families relevant for investigating syncretism).

The job will involve collecting and analysing cross-linguistic data,
maintaining a database,
compiling a bibliography and contributing to joint papers.

Details of the Surrey Morphology Group can be found at:
http://www.surrey.ac.uk/LIS/SMG/

Informal enquiries may be made to Dunstan Brown (d.brown at surrey.ac.uk)
or to Greville
Corbett (g.corbett at surrey.ac.uk).

For an application pack, please telephone +1483 873846 or e-mail
A.Bell at surrey.ac.uk or
write to the Personnel Department (arb), University of Surrey,
Guildford, Surrey, GU2
5XH. Please supply your postal address, where you saw the advertisement
and the vacancy
reference number 1668/arb. The closing date for written applications is
Thursday 15th April
1999. Interviews will be held on Thursday 13th May 1999.

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Greville G. Corbett
Department of Linguistic and International Studies
University of Surrey
Guildford email: g.corbett at surrey.ac.uk
Surrey, GU2 5XH FAX: +44 1483 259527
Great Britain phone: +44 1483 300800 ext 2849