LINGUIST List 17.3311
Tue Nov 14 2006
Jobs: Language Description: Post Doc, La Trobe University
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1. Alexandra
Aikhenvald,
Language Description: Post Doc, La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia
Message 1: Language Description: Post Doc, La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia
Date: 14-Nov-2006
From: Alexandra Aikhenvald <a.aikhenvaldlatrobe.edu.au>
Subject: Language Description: Post Doc, La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia
University or Organization: La Trobe University Department: Research Centre for Linguistic Typology Web Address: http://www.latrobe.edu.au/rclt Job Rank: Post Doc Specialty Areas: Language Description; Typology; Language Contact
Description:
Applications are invited for two three-year Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in the Research Centre for Linguistic Typology. They are to commence on 1st May 2007, or soon thereafter.
Applicants should have been awarded their doctorate within the last five years. They should have experience of linguistic fieldwork and will, ideally, have already completed a grammatical description of some previously undescribed language (not their native language) in terms of basic linguistic theory. The University may consider cases in which the period is in excess of five years due to special circumstances. Applications will be considered from candidates whose thesis is currently under examination. Applicants must hold a doctoral degree or have equivalent qualifications at the date of appointment. A Fellowship will not normally be awarded to an applicant who already holds an appointment within the University.
The successful applicant will work as part of a team with Professor Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, Professor R.M.W. Dixon, and other members of the Research Centre. Ideally, we are looking for one Postdoctoral Research Fellow who will work on a language from South America and one who will work on a language from New Guinea. However applicants with primary interest in another area will be considered. Each appointee will undertake extensive fieldwork and will either (i) produce a comprehensive description of some previously undescribed language; or (ii) pursue an in-depth study of a language contact situation. Option (ii) will only be available to someone who already has good knowledge of one or more of the languages involved in a suitable contact situation (and has undertaken significant analytic on them). The choice of project will be made after discussion between the successful applicant and Professors Aikhenvald and Dixon.
The Fellowship will be a three-year appointment and is intended to advance the research activities of the University by bringing to or retaining in Australia a promising scholar.
Enquiries should be directed initially to the Associate Director of RCLT, Professor Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald (email a.aikhenvaldlatrobe.edu.au Phone: 61-3-94796402 Fax: 61-3--94673079
Apply on-line at: http://www.latrobe.edu.au/rclt
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