LINGUIST List 22.4016 Fri Oct 14 2011 Jobs: Language Documentation: PhD Positions, University of Berne Editor for this issue: Christy Bird <christylinguistlist.org> New! Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:             http://multitree.linguistlist.org/ The LINGUIST List strongly encourages employers to engage in non-discriminatory hiring practices. We urge employers not to discriminate on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, age, religion, gender, or sexual orientation. However, we have no means of enforcing these standards. Job seekers should pay special attention to language in ads regarding employment requirements and are encouraged to consult our international employment page at http://linguistlist.org/jobs/jobnet.html. This page has been set up so that people can report on the employment standards of various countries. To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at http://linguistlist.org/posttolinguist.cfm Directory         1.     George van Driem , Language Documentation: PhD Positions, University of Berne, Switzerland Message 1: Language Documentation: PhD Positions, University of Berne, Switzerland Date: 13-Oct-2011 From: George van Driem <george.vandriemisw.unibe.ch> Subject: Language Documentation: PhD Positions, University of Berne, Switzerland E-mail this message to a friend University or Organization: University of Berne Department: Linguistics Institute Job Location: Berne, Switzerland Web Address: http://www.isw.unibe.ch Job Rank: PhD Positions Specialty Areas: Language Documentation Description: Task: 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. Requirements: 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: Salary scale is provided by the Swiss National Science Foundation (http://www.snf.ch). Application documents: Please send the following items electronically: - Your curriculum vitae (do not omit place and date of birth, nationality and address, and also kindly include a photograph) - Electronic copies of your master's thesis and bachelor's thesis - Your list of publications, if any, as well as PDFs of these publications - Scans of your diplomas - A statement of proposed research Application Deadline: 31-Jan-2012 Email Address for Applications: george.vandriemisw.unibe.ch Contact Information: Prof. George van Driem Email: george.vandriemisw.unibe.ch Phone: +41 31 631 80 06 Fax: +41 31 631 36 03 Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 14-Oct-2011       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.