PhD and MA funding in Linguistics and English Language at Manchester

A wealth of opportunities for funding for postgraduate degrees in our department detailed below the fold by PhD admissions officer Martina Faller:

SOAS workshop: Beliefs and Ideology on Endangered Languages

There will be a workshop on “Beliefs and Ideology on Endangered Languages” (complete with an exciting lineup of invited speakers!) held at SOAS in London on 27 and 28 February.  Details via Peter Austin below the fold.

SOAS Postdoc in endangered language research

SOAS is advertising a two year postdoc in endangered language research.  Details, via the Linguistic Typology list (and Peter Austin) below the fold.

Morphosyntactic categories and the expression of possession

The Germanic possessive –s project (PIs Kersti Börjars and David Denison; Postdoc researcher Alan Scott) is hosting a workshop on 3–4 April on “Morphosyntactic categories and the expression of possession.”  Among the distinguished list of invited speakers is one of own noun phrase gurus John Payne.  All the details below the fold (via the LAGB list).

Lectureship in Psycholinguistics

The department is advertising a permanent lectureship (the equivalent of a tenure track Assistant Professorship elsewhere) in Psycholinguistics.  The deadline for applications is 20 February.  Details here.

Simon Research Fellowships at Manchester Uni

The annual round of advertisements has gone out for Simon Research Fellowships, which according to the advertisement are (very generous!) postdocs

in any of the Social Sciences, broadly conceived, tenable for up to 3 years from 1 September 2009. These fellowships are intended for outstanding early career researchers who have completed a doctoral degree. A record of research and publications or demonstrated potential for research in relevant subject areas is essential.

According to the further particulars, Linguistics is (quite appropriately) included in the social sciences (and indeed, we’ve hosted a Simon Fellow, Beth Evans, in recent memory).  It’s also worth noting that according to the further particulars, in all but very exceptional circumstances, Simon Fellows must hold a PhD from a university located in a country that’s a member of the Commonwealth.  The deadline for applications is 24 February.  All the details are here.

Vincent in Cyprus

Colleague Nigel Vincent, apparently jealous of all the sun John Payne will be soaking up in Spain, has one-upped him, having accepted an invitation to give a talk in September at the 7th Mediterranean Morphology Meeting in Nicosia, Cyprus.  Details here.

18th Manchester postgraduate conference in linguistics

The 18th PG conference, which takes place in May, now has a website.  Invited speakers include David Crystal and our own Eva Schultze-Berndt.  Check out all the details here.

Vincent in Cambridge

Colleague Nigel Vincent is an invited speaker at the 4th Cambridge Italian Dialect Syntax Meeting being held in late June in, well, Cambridge (where else?).  Details (including the call for papers), via the Linguist List, below the fold.

Payne in Spain!

But no need to call the GP or apply plasters!  It’s our own John Payne as an invited speaker at a conference in Vigo, Spain on “The Structure of the Noun Phrase in English” in October.  Check out the call for papers on the Linguist List here and the conference website here.