Linguistics PhD scholarship funded by Norwegian Research Council

A PhD Scholarship is offered by the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific to conduct research on the Austronesian language Kara, spoken in New Ireland, Papua New Guinea. The position is affiliated with the project 'Where does grammar come from? The cognitive basis of transitivity and grammatical relations,' funded by the Norwegian Research Council. 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 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 scholarship includes funding for fieldwork and other relevant travel. The ANU College of Asia and the Pacific provides additional top-up funds to support fieldwork, travel, and conference attendance of $7,500 plus $800 for thesis copy editing for the period of scholarship.