The School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics at Newcastle University, UK, seeks outstanding applicants for NEDTC studentships on our PhD programme in English Language and Linguistics through the North East Doctoral Training Centre (NEDTC). NEDTC is a joint venture between Newcastle University and Durham University. A centre of excellence for postgraduate social science scholarship, NEDTC is one of the largest and most innovative of the ESRC's national network of doctoral training centres. For the 2015/16 studentship competition, NEDTC has available 36 fully-funded awards for PG studies commencing in 2015/16.

We invite applications in the following areas of linguistic research:

•             FORMAL LINGUISTICS, including: syntactic theory and comparative syntax, phonological theory, morphophonology and morphosyntax, semantics and pragmatics, philosophy of language, philosophy of linguistics, and the architecture of the language faculty. Linguists working in these areas are: Emeritus Professor Noel Burton-Roberts, Cristina Dye, S.J. Hannahs, Anders Holmberg, Geoff Poole, Maggie Tallerman, Joel Wallenberg, William van der Wurff.

•             LANGUAGE VARIATION AND CHANGE, including: historical/diachronic linguistics, sociolinguistics, grammaticalization, variationist linguistics, dialect syntax, corpus analysis, linguistic typology. Linguists working in these areas are: Karen Corrigan, Anders Holmberg, Adam Mearns, Heike Pichler, Geoff Poole, Maggie Tallerman, Danielle Turton, Joel Wallenberg, William van der Wurff.

•             LANGUAGE ACQUISITION, DEVELOPMENT AND EVOLUTION, including: first language acquisition and development, the acquisition of second language morphosyntax and phonology, and evolutionary linguistics. Linguists working in these areas are: Cristina Dye, Martha Young-Scholten, Maggie Tallerman, Joel Wallenberg.

Further details about the competition are available here:

http://www.ncl.ac.uk/elll/study/postgraduate/funding/esrc.htm

http://www.nedtc.ac.uk/

http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AKC513/economic-and-social-research-council-esrc-studentships/

Prospective NEDTC applicants should discuss their applications with the following academic contact:

•             S.J. Hannahs - s.j.hannahs@ncl.ac.uk

The Administrative contacts is:

•             Sheila Heppel - crills@ncl.ac.uk