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

[John Peterson]

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Betreff: 3 PhD positions in Linguistics: Grammatical description of a
language of the Indian subcontinent
Von:     "Doug Cooper" <doug.cooper.thailand at gmail.com>
Datum:   Sa, 8.10.2011, 05:16
An:      SEALANG-L at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG
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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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