Ph.D. Student on the Subject Plural as Value of Cushitic Gender, Netherlands
Job Description: The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL) is the research institute of linguistics at the Faculty of Humanities, Leiden University. LUCL coordinates the research of about 60 permanent faculty, 50 PhD students and 30 post-docs. It runs the internationally-oriented two-year Research MA programme “Structure and variation in the languages of the world” and organises numerous conferences, workshops and other scientific events every year.
LUCL has a position for a:
Ph.D. Student on the subject ‘Plural as value of Cushitic gender: a psycholinguistic study’, (f/m)(38 hours a week), Sept 2010 – Aug 2014
Vacancy number: 10-120
Project description
This project is about a psycholinguistic study of grammatical gender processing in Cushitic languages. The gender systems of Cushitic languages in East Africa have the intriguing property that the third value of gender (beside masculine and feminine) is plural. The world’s leading typologist of gender, Greville Corbett, analyzed these systems as two-valued and the third value as part of the number category (see Corbett & Hayward, 1987; Corbett, 1991, 2005, 2006). In contrast, Mous (2008) argued that Corbett’s analysis cannot hold because gender and number are two independent agreement systems and adjectives show agreement for both categories independently. Thus, if the third category of gender is taken to be plural, a situation can arise in which adjectives show conflicting values for number in agreement with one and the same head noun.
The current project aims at providing experimental, psycholinguistic evidence to shed more light on the processing of grammatical gender in Cushitic languages and support either Corbett’s or Mous’ theoretical hypotheses.
Requirements
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MA in linguistics, psycholinguistics or a related area such as cognitive/experimental psychology or cognitive science;
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preferably theoretical knowledge about grammatical processing in Cushitic languages;
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and/or hands-on experience in psycholinguistics;
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experience with E-prime-software (for experimental design/set-up) is an advantage;
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(basic) knowledge of statistics (incl. SPSS) for data analysis is also an advantage;
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solid competence in English (oral and written);
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candidate must be willing and able to carry out experiments in Ethiopia;
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preferably competence in Amharic as well as practical and social knowledge of Ethiopia.
Application Deadline 20August2010
Scholarship Tags: Amharic, Cushitic, Gender, Netherlands, Plural, Science, Subject, Technology, Value
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