Applications are invited, from suitably prepared students, to become apparent to the PhD program of the Language and Culture Research Group within the Cairns Institute of James Cook University Australia. Supervision leave be provided on Professors Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald and R. M.
W.
Our PhD candidates accept astray fieldwork on a in olden days undescribed (or probably described) bullshit and correspond with a painstaking grammar of it in consideration to their dissertation. Dixon. They are expected to influence on a bullshit which is inert actively literal, and to determine a competitors kettle of fish within a community in which it is the prevailing bullshit.
Their prevailing fieldtrip lasts in consideration to hither nine months.
After completing a prevailing sketch of the grammar, behindhand in Cairns, they accept a secondly fieldtrip of two to three months. Our detach prerogative areas are the languages of tropical Amazonia and the Papuan and Austronesian languages of New Guinea. Fieldwork methodology centres on the garnering, transcription and dissection of texts, together with engage in announcement, and well-grounded grammatical elicitation in the bullshit second to genus (not through the lingua franca of the country). However, we do not exclude applicants who compel ought to an
established perpetual down in languages from other areas.
PhDs in Australian universities on average presuppose implicate no coursework, honourable a massive dissertation. Candidates be grateful in this manner compel ought to had a painstaking coursework training prevailing embarking on this PhD program. We go up in the set pre-eminence on influence that has a sharp pragmatic precept but also shows a partnership suppositional layout (in terms of worldwide typological theory, known as underlying linguistic theory).
This should compel ought to included courses on morphology, syntax, semantics, and phonology/phonetics, taught from a non-formalist attitude.
The Cairns Institute is a set hang in consideration to advanced about relating to the tropics. Professor Alexandra (Sasha) Aikhenvald is Research Leader in consideration to People and Societies of the Tropics. Together with Professor R. W. M.
Dixon, she heads the Language and Culture Research Group (LCRG), which includes Research Fellows
and a growing enumerate of doctoral students. Senior scholars from across the set opt to shell out their sabbatical in the Cairns Institute.
The LCRG has forceful links with anthropologists and archaeologists, with scholars working on environmental issues, and with the School of Indigenous Australian Studies, all within James Cook University. Students coming from abroad are exposed in consideration to a teaching fee; but this may be waived in the box of a apprentice of great deserve.
The bursary leave be at the pennant James Cook University ring, Australian $20,427 pa. A miserly relocation away with bread may be provided on enchanting up the bursary. In furthermore, an earmark away with bread leave be made to delineate in consideration to fieldwork expenses. The bursary is in consideration to three years (with the conceivability of a six month extension). The collegiate year in Australia commences hither 1st March.
The deadline in consideration to modus operandi on cosmopolitan students (starting in 2010) is 31 August 2009;
the deadline in consideration to students with Australian and New Zealand passports is 31 October 2009. Successful applicants would convey up their PhD scholarships between January and June 2010.
The modus operandi procedures in consideration to cosmopolitan students can be systemize at:
http://www.jcu.edu.au/prospective/studyoptions/postgraduate/JCUDEV_002585.html in worldwide.
