28.4114, Support: Austro-Asiatic; Historical Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Typology: PhD, University of Zurich

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Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2017 14:38:50
From: Mathias Jenny [mathias.jenny at uzh.ch]
Subject: Austro-Asiatic; Historical Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Typology: PhD, University of Zurich, Switzerland

 Institution/Organization: University of Zurich 
Department: Comparative Linguistics 
Web Address: http://www.comparativelinguistics.uzh.ch/en.html 

Level: PhD 

Duties: Research,Project Work
 
Specialty Areas: Historical Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Typology 
diachronic and areal linguistics (corpus and fieldwork based) 

                      Austro-Asiatic 

Description:

Applications are invited for one doctoral student position in the research
project “The development of verb-initial structures cross-linguistically:
insights from Austroasiatic” hosted at the Department of Comparative
Linguistics, University of Zurich, Switzerland, and to begin on February 1st,
2018. Funding for the position is limited to three years.

Requirements:

The candidate must hold a Master’s degree in linguistics received at latest by
the time he/she takes up his/her position in the project. Top candidates will
have excellent results from their Master's degree courses/thesis and a focus
on or interest in linguistic typology, areal linguistics, and language
contact, as well as experience with or interest in fieldwork-based language
documentation and description. Knowledge of Burmese and/or other languages of
South-/Southeast Asia, especially Austroasiatic languages, is an asset, but
not a requirement.

Job description:

The successful applicant will work with the project leader, a post-doc
researcher, and student assistants on a corpus of texts from several
Austroasiatic languages, applying linguistic methodologies to investigate the
development of verb-initial structures in the language family and the areas
where AA languages are spoken.

Apart from working with and developing corpora from published material, field
trips to Myanmar and India to collect specific data are part of the position.
The successful applicant is expected to complete his PhD dissertation at the
University of Zurich within the project. The PhD will be cumulative,
consisting of four papers (published or accepted by a relevant international
journal) within the framework of the project. The exact topics of the papers
will be determined in accordance with the applicant's background and
preferences, and papers may be co-authored with researchers within or outside
the project, but they must reflect original and independent work by the PhD
candidate.
More information on the project can be found at
http://www.comparativelinguistics.uzh.ch/de/staff/mathiasjenny/research/verbin
itiality.html.

Salary is according to Swiss public employee pay scale (Canton of Zurich).

Applications with the usual documents (cover letter, CV, transcript of BA/MA
studies) should be sent in electronic form to the e-mail address indicated
below by November 5, 2017. Two letters of reference should be sent directly by
independent referees to the same e-mail address.
Questions about the position and full applications can be addressed to Dr.
Mathias Jenny at mathias.jenny [AT] uzh.ch.
 

Application Deadline: 05-Nov-2017 

Mailing Address for Applications:
	Attn: Dr. Mathias Jenny 
	Department of Comparative Linguistics, UZH 
	Plattenstrasse 54 
	Zurich Zurich 8032 
	Switzerland 
	
Contact Information: 
	Dr. Mathias Jenny 
	mathias.jenny at uzh.ch 
	Phone:+41 44 634 35 39  


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