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Subject: 23.5041, Support: General Linguistics, German: PhD Student, Universität Bern, Switzerland

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Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2012 13:10:28
From: Elke Hentschel [jasam at germ.unibe.ch]
Subject: General Linguistics, German: PhD Student, Universität Bern, Switzerland

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 Institution/Organization: Universität Bern 
Department: Germanistik 
Web Address: http://www.germanistik.unibe.ch/namenkunde/ 

Level: PhD 

Duties: Project Work
 
Specialty Areas: General Linguistics 
 
Required Language(s): German (deu)

Description:

As one of the oldest domains of philological investigation, the study of
proper names (or onomastics) has sometimes been thought of as an outmoded
field of investigation. However, in recent years scholars from different
horizons have developed an increasing interest in the study of names,
especially with regard to place names (or toponyms). Place names are indeed an
object of research that brings together linguists, historians, geographers,
landscape architects, etc., thus representing an ideal locus for
interdisciplinary collaboration.

The main purpose of the project is to present all place names of the
German-speaking part of the Swiss canton of Bern and to provide detailed
information on their etymology.

The main purpose of the toponomastic project Ortsnamenbuch des Kantons
Bern_Alter Kantonsteil [Toponymic Dictionary of the Swiss Canton of
Bern_German-speaking part] is to present all place names of the
German-speaking part of the Swiss canton of Bern and to provide detailed
information on their etymology.

The dictionary will be published in 6 volumes:

- 1976: vol. 1: letters A, E, F
- 1987: vol. 2: letters G, H, I, J, K/CH
- 2008: vol. 3: letters L, M
- 2011: vol. 4: letters N, O, B/P
- 2014: vol. 5 (in preparation): letters Q, R, S
- 2017: vol. 6 (in preparation): letters D/T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z

As a standard work of Bernese toponomy, this dictionary plays a vital role
among the other toponomastic projects in German-speaking Switzerland, its
results being targeted not only at scientists but also at the lay public.

The Bernese territory with its complex history of settlement contains
prealpine and alpine areas as well as big parts of the Swiss Midlands, which
in the West merge into the French-speaking part of Switzerland.

The Bernese Research Centre for Onomastics was founded in 1942/43 by the late
Prof. Paul Zinsli as a result of a resolution of the Swiss federal council,
which obliged all Swiss cantons to form commissions of nomenclature. The
collection of toponyms began in the first half of the 20th century. Today, new
names are still being added to the corpus due to new inputs from the official
topographic survey.

The research group consists of 4 (male, part-time) researchers/editors with a
doctor's degree and 2 (female, part-time) tutorial assistants:
(http://www.germanistik.unibe.ch/namenkunde/mitarbeitende.html).

The generous financial support by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
and by the University of Bern has assured the project's continuance to this
day.

The successful applicant is in possession of good skills in Standard High
German as well as in the historical stages of the German language and has a
strong sense for dialects. She/he will become part of the research group and
participate in its daily work as mentioned above to the degree of a part-time
job of 50%. As for the other 50% of the working-time she/he is expected to
write a PhD thesis on a topic that is (closely) related to the collection and
the objectives of the research project. She/he will be payed through a PhD
scholarship of the Swiss National Foundation limited at the moment to Sept.
30, 2014. An extension to an overall period of three years will be made
application for within the framework of the project.
 

Application Deadline: 10-Dec-2012 

Mailing Address for Applications:
	Attn: Prof. Dr. Elke Hentschel 
Institut für Germanistik 
Länggass-Strasse 49 
Bern 3013 
Switzerland 
	
Web Address for Applications: http://www.jobs.unibe.ch/detail.asp?ID=5405&KatID=2 

Contact Information: 
	Prof. Dr. Elke Hentschel 
jasam at germ.unibe.ch  





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