General Linguistics: PhD Student, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA

Institution/Organization: University of New Mexico
Department: Linguistics
Web Address: http://www.unm.edu/~linguist/

Level: PhD
Duties: Research,Teaching
Specialty Areas: General Linguistics

Description:
The Department of Linguistics at The University of New Mexico is proud to
announce the Joseph H. Greenberg Fellowship, endowed by a generous bequest from
the late Selma Greenberg. The fellowship will provide a stipend and a part-time
research assistantship to an outstanding doctoral student for two years. The
department will provide a further two years of support through a full-time
teaching assistantship. The fellowship and the teaching assistantship will also
provide six to nine hours of graduate tuition each fall and spring semester, as
well as graduate health insurance coverage.

All new applicants to the PhD program in Linguistics at UNM will be considered;
there is no separate fellowship application form. Applications to the PhD
program in Linguistics at UNM are welcomed from students with an MA degree in
Linguistics or the equivalent. The department specializes in functionalist
linguistics, Native American language documentation and revitalization
(especially Navajo and other indigenous languages of the American Southwest),
and signed language linguistics.

Links to online application forms can be found at:
http://www.unm.edu/~linguist/phdadmit.html.
Domestic Applicants should go to:
http://www.unm.edu/~grad.
International Applicants should go to:
http://www.unm.edu/admissions/guidelines/international.html.

Applications must be submitted by January 15th for consideration for the
Greenberg Fellowship. For further information, please email lingasst@unm.edu or
contact the Department of Linguistics at (+1) (505)-277-6353.

Application Deadline: 15-Jan-2009

Web Address for Applications: http://www.unm.edu/~grad

Contact Information:
Ms Jessica Slocum
lingasst@unm.edu
Phone:505-277-6353
Fax:505-277-6355