3 PhD positions in Linguistics: Grammatical description of a language of the Indian subcontinent

[Doug Cooper]

Three positions are available.
Contact:  George van Driem <vandriem at isw.unibe.ch>
Description:  http://www.jobs.unibe.ch/detail.asp?ID=4864&KatID=2

PhD positions in Linguistics: Grammatical description of a language of the 
Indian subcontinent
Institution: 	Linguistics Institute
Grammatical description of an endangered and hitherto undescribed or poorly 
documented language of the Indian subcontinent

The grammar will consist of an analytical description of the phonetics and 
phonology, morphology and morphosyntax, syntactic and pragmatic phenomena in 
the language and include a lexicon and morphologically analysed texts. The 
choice of languages will be made on the basis of the urgency of documentation 
in view of the degree of language endangerment, and the potential significance 
of the chosen language in terms of what light the language may shed on the 
phylogeny of its language family and on Asian population prehistory. The 
language description which will serve as the Ph.D. fellow’s doctoral 
dissertation and represent a fundamental contribution to the field. The PhD 
fellow will conduct fieldwork in order to gather the corpus of language data 
which will form the basis of his or her description.

For our team we are looking for three highly motivated PhD students with 
sufficient linguistic qualifications for admission to the Bern PhD programme 
and relevant language competence. In addition to the benefit of expert 
supervision, the Ph.D. fellows will take part in fortnightly seminars and 
through their research may also participate in the Trans-Himalayan database 
project of the Bern Linguistic Laboratory.

Salary scale is provided by the Swiss National Science Foundation (www.snf.ch).
Pensum: 	100%
Stellenantritt: 	1 March 2012 (can be discussed)
Befristung: 	3 years
Bewerbungsfrist: 	31 January 2012
Kontaktperson: 	Prof. Dr. Georg van Driem
Telefon: 	031 631 80 06
Fax: 	031 631 36 03
eMail: 	vandriem at isw.unibe.ch
Homepage: 	http://www.isw.unibe.ch

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