Linguistics Phd Scholarship Funded Norwegian Research Council

About this scholarship

A PhD Scholarship is offered by the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, which is to conduct research on the Austronesian language Kara, spoken in New Ireland, Papua New Guinea. The position is affiliated to the project Where does grammar come from? The cognitive basis of transitivity and grammatical relations, funded by the Norwegian Research Council (see project web page here ). The successful applicant will produce a fieldwork­ based grammatical description of the Kara language, from a usage-based and discourse-oriented perspective. The PhD project will be part of a research group consisting of a researcher at ANU, as well as the project leader, a postdoc and a PhD candidate at the University of Oslo (UiO) in Norway. There will be opportunities for a research visit to UiO, as well as participation in other project activities such as workshops and project team meetings on specific themes relevant to the overall project goals. The project funding includes funds for fieldwork as well as other relevant travel.

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