UK, EU and International Scholarships for a PhD in Linguistics at the University of Surrey

Surrey Morphology Group are pleased to announce that funding is available for UK, EU
and International candidates wishing to study for a PhD in Linguistics at the
University of Surrey, Guildford, UK.

Surrey Morphology Group is a linguistics research centre dedicated to the study of
language diversity and its theoretical consequences. Postgraduates studying
Theoretical, Descriptive and Typological Linguistics benefit from membership of a
community of researchers in the Surrey Morphology Group working on a variety of
topics related to linguistic diversity and its consequences for the analysis of
grammatical systems.

http://www.surrey.ac.uk/postgraduate/linguistics-phd

Three different opportunities for funding are available:

Full AHRC scholarships are available for Home students (resident in the UK for three
years). Fees only awards from the AHRC are available for EU students.

Faculty scholarships are available for Home, EU students and International students.
Full scholarships (Fees and Stipend) are available for Home and Uk applicants.

Successful International students will be awarded a stipend and receive a substantial
discount on the international fees. Please note that full international fees are not
covered: candidates should ensure that they are in a position to cover the
outstanding costs.

We also have a AHRC position for a PhD student to undertake fieldwork on Nuer (Nilotic) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia as part of an AHRC-funded research project entitled
'Morphological complexity in Nuer'. This full scholarship is open to Home (i.e. UK) students. A fees only scholarship is available to EU students.
The closing date for applications is Friday 9th January.

PhD scholarship on "Morphological complexity in Nuer":
https://jobs.surrey.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?ref=073614

AHRC scholarships:
http://www.surrey.ac.uk/fahs/study/studentships/ahrc/index.htm

Faculty scholarships:
http://www.surrey.ac.uk/fahs/study/studentships/faculty/index.htm

To be eligible for either of both funding streams, potential applicants need to fill in a short expression of interest form including a 300 word summary of their proposed topic by 9th January 2015:

http://www.surrey.ac.uk/content/doctoral-studentship

Potential candidates will be asked to prepare a proposal no longer than 2000 words in
length to submit in support of their application. the strongest applications will show a connection to the interests of the Surrey Morphology Group.

Research in Linguistics at the University of Surrey focuses on the consequences
linguistic diversity has for developing theories of language structure and use. The
languages and linguistic settings researched cover the entire globe, with specialists
documenting and describing the structure and use of familiar and less familiar
languages spoken in the Pacific, Asia, the Caucasus, Europe, Africa and the Americas.

Key research areas include:

• Theoretical morphology (including Network Morphology and Paradigm Function Morphology)
• Morphological interfaces
• Linguistic typology (including Canonical Typology)
• Language Documentation and Description (including Austronesian, Nakh-Daghestanian, Niger-Congo, Nilo-Saharan, Oto-Manguean, Papuan, Slavonic, Tibeto-Burman languages)

For more information on our research interests, see the research projects pages of
our website:

http://www.surrey.ac.uk/smg

For further details about PhD opportunities or applications, please contact Dr Oliver Bond: o.bond@surrey.ac.uk