31.1532, Support: Old English; Middle English; Historical Linguistics: PhD Student, Trinity College, Dublin

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Subject: 31.1532, Support: Old English; Middle English; Historical Linguistics: PhD Student, Trinity College, Dublin

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Date: Wed, 06 May 2020 02:50:24
From: Mark Faulkner [faulknem at tcd.ie]
Subject: Old English; Middle English; Historical Linguistics: PhD Student, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

 Institution/Organization: Trinity College, Dublin 
Department: English 
Web Address: https://www.tcd.ie/English/ 

Level: PhD 

Duties: Research,Project Work
 
Specialty Areas: Historical Linguistics 
 
Required Language(s): English, Middle (enm)
                      English, Old (ang) 

Description:

Big Dating: Using Big Data to Date Medieval Texts

Applicants are sought for a fully-funded four-year Provost’s Project Award PhD
doctoral award on the Big Dating project to start in September 2020 (or later,
if Covid-19 does not permit it). The award comprises the student’s full
tuition fees (EU or non-EU) and an annual stipend of €16,000. These doctoral
awards are generously funded through alumni donations and Trinity’s Commercial
Revenue Unit.

The Big Dating project explores quantitative and/or computational approaches
to the language of medieval texts, particularly those from England in the long
twelfth century, which evade the periodisation of English into ‘Old’ and
‘early Middle’. The successful applicant will be expected to devote up to 24
hours per month of work to this project, as well as complete a PhD thesis.

The topic of the student’s PhD thesis is not prescribed, but will be developed
between the student and the supervisor. Possible approaches include (but are
by no means limited to):

- Computer-assisted philological analyses of particular texts or groups of
texts
- Cluster analysis of text languages to identify potential dating criteria
- Work towards developing an automated parser and/or lemmatiser for late Old
English and early Middle English
- Bottom-up periodisations of Old and Middle English

Students interested in the doctoral award are invited to email the Principal
Investigator, Dr Mark Faulkner (faulknem at tcd.ie) with expressions of interest
by 22 May 2020. They may subsequently be invited to submit a CV, academic
transcripts, a sample of written work and the names of two academic referees
and asked to take part in a Skype interview. The final stage of the
application process will involve the submission of a formal PhD proposal to
Trinity.

The following may be considered the essential and desirable qualifications for
the award:

Essential
- A Master’s (completed or in progress) in linguistics or Medieval Studies
- A first-class (or equivalent) undergraduate degree in a relevant subject
- Demonstrable communicative competence in English

Desirable
- Good working knowledge of Old and Middle English
- Experience using major medieval corpora and electronic resources (e. g.
Dictionary of Old English Corpus, Linguistic Atlas of Early Middle English,
Penn Parsed Corpus of Middle English Prose)
- Familarity with the techniques of quantitative and/or computational
linguistics
 

Application Deadline: 22-May-2020 

Web Address for Applications: https://www.tcd.ie/English/ 

Contact Information: 
	Mark Faulkner 
	faulknem at tcd.ie  


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