2 Phd Positions at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

The General Linguistics research group at the Department of Language, Literature and Communication of the VU Faculty of Humanities is seeking to fill two PhD positions. The positions are part of the ERC-funded project ‘Papuans on the move. The linguistic prehistory of the West Papuan languages’, which is devoted to the documentation of putative West Papuan languages in Indonesia and the reconstruction of their history by means of comparative analysis. Both projects will be carried out in close collaboration with the project’s principal investigator, Antoinette Schapper, and will involve documentary fieldwork in collaboration with local Indonesian scholars and communities. The positions include ample funding for research and travel. Short descriptions of each of the projects are provided below. Candidates are strongly encouraged to read the project descriptions carefully when preparing their applications.