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 Documentation; Language Description
Description:
RCLT Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Full-time, fixed-term (Academic Level A) position
Remuneration package of $67,578 to $72,540 per annum, which includes 17% employer superannuation.
Campus: Institute for Advanced Study, Bundoora
Applications are invited for two, three-year Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in the Research Centre for Linguistic Typology. They are to commence on 1st December 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 analysis on them). The choice of project will be made after discussion between the successful applicant and Professors Aikhenvald and Dixon.
Each 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.
Before making a formal application, potential applicants are invited to communicate with Professor Alexandra Aikhenvald at the email address listed below.
Applicants are also invited to visit our website listed above.
Application Deadline: 24-Aug-2007
Mailing Address for Applications:
Professor Alexandra Aikhenvald
RCLT La Trobe University Bundoora
Melbourne, Victoria 3084
Australia
Contact Information:
Professor Alexandra Aikhenvald
Email: a.aikhenvald@ latrobe.edu. au
Phone: 3-61-94796402
Fax: 3-61-94673053
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