29.4318, Support: Austronesian; General Linguistics; Language Documentation; Syntax; Typology: PhD, Universität Mainz

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Subject: 29.4318, Support: Austronesian; General Linguistics; Language Documentation; Syntax; Typology: PhD, Universität Mainz

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Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2018 11:24:09
From: Uta Reinöhl [uta.reinoehl at gmail.com]
Subject: Austronesian; General Linguistics; Language Documentation; Syntax; Typology: PhD, Universität Mainz, Germany

 Institution/Organization: Universität Mainz 
Department: Department of English and Linguistics 
Web Address: https://www.linguistik.fb05.uni-mainz.de/ 

Level: PhD 

Duties: Research
 
Specialty Areas: General Linguistics; Language Documentation; Syntax; Typology 
 

                      Austronesian 

Description:

PhD position, corpus and field research on an Austronesian language
Applications are invited to fill a PhD position in the research group
“Non-hierarchicality in grammar. Construction formation without word class
distinction across categories and languages” (Emmy Noether Group, DFG (German
Research Foundation)) led by PI Dr. Uta Reinöhl at the Department of English
and Linguistics of the University of Mainz (Germany).

The PhD candidate will participate in research on an Austronesian language
spoken in East Timor. S/he will work with an existing corpus as well as carry
out short field trips with a focus on verb serialization. S/he will be
supported in this research by the principal investigator as well as project
partners such as Prof. Nikolaus Himmelmann (University of Cologne). S/he will
conduct research with other PhD candidates and the principal investigator on
complex expressions combining elements of the same syntactic class,
cross-linguistically and cross-categorially. 

The ideal candidate has:
- An MA degree (or an equivalent degree that allows for entering a doctoral
programme) in linguistics or related fields by the end of February 2019
- Research interests in one or several of the following sub-disciplines:
typology, syntax, morpho-syntax, language documentation
- A keen interest in conducting corpus work as well as short field trips
- Social skills suitable for collaborative research with native speakers as
well as within the research unit
- Language competence in Portuguese and/or Indonesian and/or Tetum

Further information on the research unit can be found here:
http://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/406074683

Planned starting date: March 1st 2019
Funding: E13 TV-L (65%) – Three years (with a possible extension to four
years)

Applications from severely disabled persons with equivalent qualifications
will be given preference.

All application documents (a letter of motivation, CV, course transcript,
certificates of completed degrees, two examples of representative written
work, two names of references) should be sent by email to
uta.reinoehl at gmail.com. Any enquiries can be sent to the same address.
 

Application Deadline: 10-Dec-2018 

Web Address for Applications: https://www.linguistik.fb05.uni-mainz.de/ma-linguistik/jobsuche/ 

Contact Information: 
	Uta Reinöhl 
	uta.reinoehl at gmail.com  


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