LINGUIST List 22.954 Fri Feb 25 2011 Support: West Papuan & Lang Documentation: U. of New England (Australia) Editor for this issue: Matthew Lahrman <mattlinguistlist.org> New! Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:             http://multitree.linguistlist.org/ To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.cfm. Directory         1.     Jeff Siegel , Morehead-Maro Family & Language Documentation, Linguistic Analysis: PhD Student, University of New England (Australia) Message 1: Morehead-Maro Family & Language Documentation, Linguistic Analysis: PhD Student, University of New England (Australia) Date: 24-Feb-2011 From: Jeff Siegel <jsiegelune.edu.au> Subject: Morehead-Maro Family & Language Documentation, Linguistic Analysis: PhD Student, University of New England (Australia) E-mail this message to a friend Institution/Organization: University of New England (Australia) Department: School of Behavioural, Cognitive & Social Sciences Web Address: http://www.une.edu.au/bcss/linguistics/ Level: PhD Duties: Research Specialty Areas: Language Documentation Linguistic Analysis Language Family: West Papuan Description: Applications are invited for a PhD scholarship offered by the University of New England (UNE) in Australia as part of an Australia Research Council funded project: The Languages of Southern New Guinea. The scholarship is valued at Aus$30,000 per year for three years. Funds of around Aus$25,000 will also be available for field work expenses. The ARC Project: This project will investigate, analyse and record the barely-known languages of Southern New Guinea, stretching across Papua New Guinea and Indonesia just north of Australia. It will produce grammatical descriptions for six of the thirty languages of the area, plus a comparative database and handbook of the languages of the region. The successful candidate will be based at UNE and work on a language of the Morehead-Maro family, in the Morehead district of Papua New Guinea. S/he will be part of a research team headed by Prof Nicholas Evans of the Australian National University (ANU), and including Prof Jeff Siegel at UNE, and Dr Wayan Arka and two PhD students at ANU. Requirements: Applicants should hold an Honours or Masters degree in Linguistics, or an equivalent qualification. Starting date: The successful candidate will start at UNE any time between 29 August 2011 and 9 January 2012. Application process: Applicants should contact Prof Jeff Siegel for detailed information about the application process (contact details below). Application Deadline: 04-Apr-2011 Web Address for Applications: http://www.une.edu.au/research- services/forms/hdr.php Contact Information: Prof Jeff Siegel jsiegelune.edu.au Phone:+61 2 6773 3203 New! Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:             http://multitree.linguistlist.org/ Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 25-Feb-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.