23.949, FYI: EoI: Visiting Fellows, Anthropological Linguistics

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Subject: 23.949, FYI: EoI: Visiting Fellows, Anthropological Linguistics

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Date: 22-Feb-2012
From: Alexandra Aikhenvald [a.y.aikhenvald at live.com]
Subject: EoI: Visiting Fellows, Anthropological Linguistics


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Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:30:18
From: Alexandra Aikhenvald [a.y.aikhenvald at live.com]
Subject: EoI: Visiting Fellows, Anthropological Linguistics

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Exciting research opportunity in Anthropological Linguistics
Language and Culture Research Centre, James Cook University, 
Australia

An opportunity has arisen, for a top-class, highly motivated linguist, to 
spend 6-10 months as a Visiting Fellow within the Language and 
Culture Research Centre, at James Cook University, situated in the 
tropical city of Cairns, North Queensland, Australia. They would work 
with Distinguished Professor Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald and Professor R. 
M. W. Dixon within the Project 'The world through the prism of 
language: a cross-linguistic view of noun classes, genders and 
classifiers'. We invite expressions of interest from scholars at all levels, 
from Post-Doctoral on up.

The summary of the project is:

Genders, noun classes and classifiers are the grammatical means for 
linguistic categorisation of nouns and nominals. Semantic features they 
encode offer 'a unique window' into how humans construct 
representations of the world and encode them into their languages. 

The aim of this project is to investigate, across the world's languages, 
the gamut of noun classification devices, their meanings, and their 
correlations with the socio-cultural and physical environment in which a 
language is spoken. Particular attention will be paid to little known 
languages from New Guinea and Amazonia. The project has far-
reaching implications for studies of human interaction and cognition.

The Language and Culture Research Centre (LCRC) brings together 
linguists, anthropologists, other social scientists and those working in 
the humanities. The primary intent of the Centre is to investigate the 
relationship between language and the cultural behaviour of those who 
speak it. It also studies the relations between archaeology, prehistory, 
human biology, cognition studies and linguistics, based on in-depth 
empirical investigations of languages and cultures in the tropical areas, 
including those of the Pacific (especially the Papuan languages of New 
Guinea), the languages of Amazonia, and of Indigenous Australia. 
(The website is under construction).

Further information on the position, and the LCRC, is available from 
Professor Aikhenvald at Alexandra.Aikhenvald at jcu.edu.au. 



Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics





 





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