Funded PhD in West Nilotic Morphosyntax and Linguistics University of Surrey in United Kingdom

PhD studentship in West Nilotic morphosyntax at the University of Surrey , linked to the ERC-funded project NILOMORPH: The evolution of suprasegmental morphology in West Nilotic . The project investigates how West Nilotic languages developed highly unusual non-concatenative morphology, where grammatical categories can be expressed simultaneously through tone, phonation, vowel length, and vowel quality. The PhD focuses on the comparative morphosyntax of West Nilotic languages and the reconstructi...

Fully funded 4-year PhD position in Argument Structure and Interface Phenomena at Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV), Tarragona . The position is part of the research project AURI – Argument Structure of Unergative Predicates and Related Interface Phenomena (PID2025-171173NB-I00), funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities. The successful candidate will join the Research Group on Language and Linguistics (ROLLING) and pursue the doctorate within the interuniversity Do...

North Carolina State University is inviting applications for a full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor of Linguistics in the Department of English. The position is open in specialization, with particular interest in candidates working in corpus linguistics (especially syntax, morphology, or the lexicon) or experimental sociolinguistics and/or experimental psycholinguistics . The successful candidate will contribute to the department’s undergraduate major and M.A. concentration through teachi...

Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL), part of the Faculty of Humanities at Leiden University, is recruiting two fully funded PhD candidates for the NWO project Usku and Banda: Automated Documentation of Endangered Languages of Eastern Indonesia . The positions focus on two small, unwritten, endangered languages in eastern Indonesia: Usku (also called Afra), a Papuan isolate spoken in Papua, and Banda, an Austronesian language spoken on Kei Besar in Maluku. The research combines langua...

Postdoctoral Research Opportunity at the University of Sydney for a Postdoctoral Research Associate / Fellow in Cognitive Science of Language , based at the School of Psychology, Camperdown Campus in Sydney, Australia . The project focuses on language acquisition and offers research opportunities in computational modelling of language learning , experimental studies , and corpus-based studies of language acquisition. The successful candidate will work with Associate Professor Joshua Hartshorne a...