PhD Studentship in West Nilotic Morphosyntax at University of Surrey University of Surrey in United Kingdom

University of Surrey is advertising a funded PhD project in West Nilotic morphosyntax within the School of Arts, Humanities and Creative Industries. The project sits inside the ERC-funded initiative NILOMORPH: The evolution of suprasegmental morphology in West Nilotic , which investigates how West Nilotic languages of East Africa developed unusual non-concatenative morphological systems where tone, phonation, vowel length, and vowel quality can jointly encode grammatical meaning. The PhD will fo...

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...

Ghent University is advertising a post-doctoral position in Linguistics within the Department of Linguistics (Faculty of Arts and Philosophy). The appointment is a temporary 3-year postdoctoral role with a bench fee of EUR 1,500 per year to support research activities. The successful candidate will devote at least 70% of the appointment to scientific research in their linguistic area of specialization, publish in recognized international journals and/or academic books, present regularly at scien...