9.1754, Support: Graduate student stipends in Germany

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-9-1754. Thu Dec 10 1998. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 9.1754, Support: Graduate student stipends in Germany

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Date:  Wed, 2 Dec 98 14:24:49 MET
From:  eva=schlachter at rz.hu-berlin.de
Subject:  Graduate student grants

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Date:  Wed, 2 Dec 98 14:24:49 MET
From:  eva=schlachter at rz.hu-berlin.de
Subject:  Graduate student grants


The Humboldt-University in Berlin and the University of Potsdam
are offering

	5 graduate stipends, to start 1. April 1999

			and

	3 graduate stipends, to start 1. October 1999

Successful applicants will join the graduate study program "Economy
and Complexity in Language" (Graduiertenkolleg "Oekonomie und
Komplexitaet in der Sprache").

The study / research program is concerned with the organisation of the
human language faculty, with special emphasis on economy, optimality
and minimality in the principles and operations that make possible and
constrain the highly complex structures of language.

The program is divided into 4 project areas:
-	the structure of the language faculty (Bierwisch, Eisenberg, 		Fanselow, Kosta, Lang, Pompino-Marschall, Staudacher, Wilder)
-	language change (Donhauser, Kosta)
-	development and disruption of the language faculty (Bierwisch, 		Dietrich, Saddy, Weissenborn)
-	language processing (Hassler, Saddy, Staudacher)

Applications:
Information about the graduate study program can be obtained from the
address below. Graduate students with above average qualifications/
examination results in contemporary linguistic theory, and speciality
in one or more of the areas listed above, are invited to apply. NB
proficiency in German is required! Applications containing degree/
diploma certificates, curriculum vitae, academic reference (at least
one), and an outline for a research proposal, should be sent to:

	Prof. Dr. Rainer Dietrich
 	Humboldt Universitaet zu Berlin
	Institut fuer deutsche Sprache und Linguistik
	Unter den Linden 6
	10099 Berlin
	Germany
	e-mail inquiries: eva=schlachter at rz.hu-berlin.de
	www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/gk/index.html	
	www2.hu-berlin.de/inside/psyling/project.htm

Deadline for receipt of applications: 31. December 1998

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