22.4016, Jobs: Language Documentation: PhD Positions, University of Berne

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Subject: 22.4016, Jobs: Language Documentation: PhD Positions, University of Berne

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Date: 13-Oct-2011
From: George van Driem [george.vandriem at isw.unibe.ch]
Subject: Language Documentation: PhD Positions, University of Berne, Switzerland


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Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 09:46:06
From: George van Driem [george.vandriem at isw.unibe.ch]
Subject: Language Documentation: PhD Positions, University of Berne, Switzerland

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University or Organization: University of Berne 
Department: Linguistics Institute
Job Location: Berne, Switzerland 
Web Address: http://www.isw.unibe.ch
Job Rank: PhD Positions  

Specialty Areas: Language Documentation 


Description:

Task:
Grammatical description of an endangered and hitherto undescribed or poorly 
documented language of the Indian subcontinent. The grammar will consist of 
an analytical description of the phonetics and phonology, morphology and 
morphosyntax, syntactic and pragmatic phenomena in the language and 
include a lexicon and morphologically analysed texts. The choice of 
languages will be made on the basis of the urgency of documentation in view 
of the degree of language endangerment, and the potential significance of the 
chosen language in terms of what light the language may shed on the 
phylogeny of its language family and on Asian population prehistory. The 
language description which will serve as the Ph.D. fellow's doctoral 
dissertation and represent a fundamental contribution to the field. The PhD 
fellow will conduct fieldwork in order to gather the corpus of language data 
which will form the basis of his or her description.

Requirements:
For our team we are looking for three highly motivated PhD students with 
sufficient linguistic qualifications for admission to the Bern PhD programme 
and relevant language competence. In addition to the benefit of expert 
supervision, the Ph.D. fellows will take part in fortnightly seminars and 
through their research may also participate in the Trans-Himalayan database 
project of the Bern Linguistic Laboratory. 

Salary:
Salary scale is provided by the Swiss National Science Foundation 
(http://www.snf.ch).

Application documents:
Please send the following items electronically:
-   Your curriculum vitae (do not omit place and date of birth, nationality and 
address, and also kindly include a photograph)
-  Electronic copies of your master's thesis and bachelor's thesis
-  Your list of publications, if any, as well as PDFs of these publications
-  Scans of your diplomas
-  A statement of proposed research


Application Deadline: 31-Jan-2012 
	  
Email Address for Applications: george.vandriem at isw.unibe.ch 
Contact Information:
	Prof. George van Driem 
	Email: george.vandriem at isw.unibe.ch 
	Phone: +41 31 631 80 06 
	Fax: +41 31 631 36 03 




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