Mike Aubrey October 30, 2009 Greek, Language, Linguistics

And I turned to my wife and said, “This is us!”

If it wasn’t for the fact that she’s currently in the middle of her degree and right about to begin her thesis, I’d probably jump at this one:

Ancient Greek Literature, Pragmatics: Two PhD Student Positions, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany

Specialty Areas: Ling & Literature; Pragmatics; Ancient Greek Literature

Required Language(s): Greek, Ancient (grc)
Indo-European

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Required language: English

Description: Within the Emmy Noether Program of the DFG (Deutsche
Forschungsgemeinschaft), Two PhD student positions are available for a
project titled ‘Pragmatic Functions and Meanings of Ancient Greek
Particles’. The project is funded for 3 years and, upon approval, for 2
more years. The research group will be led by Dr. Anna Bonifazi
(http://ifla.uni-stuttgart.de/index.php?article_id=121).

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Steve Runge on October 30, 2009 at 11:08 am
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Have her drop out, what are you thinking! Go!

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  Mike Aubrey on October 30, 2009 at 11:14 am
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  we’d have to be able to write up incredibly amazing resumes considering neither of us has an MA yet…
  
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Annemieke Drummen on June 23, 2011 at 11:11 am
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Dear Mike,
Wow – I just incidentally found your blog when googling a book – and it’s so strange to read that you were interested, back then, in what now is my job…! 🙂 If you’re still enthousiastic about Greek particles, I could bring you into contact with the research group. You’re very welcome to come by and talk with us about particles and related topics, whenever you happen to be in Germany! I’m sure you have some ideas about them. And please keep me updated as well about your own research, I’m curious about that.

Best wishes,
Annemieke
PhD student in the Emmy Noether project mentioned above

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Mike Aubrey on June 30, 2011 at 9:12 am
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Hi Annemieke,

I’ve taken a little longer than I planned to reply to your comment. If we’re ever in Europe (and I’m sure we will), we’ll be sure to contact the group. My wife has ended up doing her research on middle voice–attempting to bring Rutger Allan’s research on Homeric and Classical Greek into the Hellenistic period and I’m currently working on predicate classes (in Role and Reference Grammar) in Josephus.

I hope your research goes well!

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Annemieke on July 2, 2011 at 11:02 am
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Hi Mike,
Thanks for your reaction. How nice to hear that your wife has used the research of Rutger Allan: he was the supervisor of my Master’s thesis in Amsterdam (and he’ll also be speaking at the conference in September, by the way). It’s a pity you’re living so far away.

There are again two PhD positions in ancient Greek available, this time in Leiden, the Netherlands: see http://www.ru.nl/publish/pages/612974/aio-plaatsen_spinoza_leiden.pdf (deadline is July 20th).

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  Mike Aubrey on July 2, 2011 at 6:24 pm
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  Hi Annemieke,
  
  You wouldn’t happen to know Nick Bailey, would you? He completed his Ph.D. under Allan at the end of 2009 (Thetic Constructions in Koine Greek).
  
  Thanks for the tip on the two positions. This probably isn’t the year for us, but I regularly keep an eye on the Netherland’s programs. There’s more high quality Greek research coming out of there than just about anywhere else.
  
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    Annemieke on July 3, 2011 at 12:36 am
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    No, I don’t know him, although I was studying at the VU when he was there.
    
    I will keep you updated on possibilities in my home country, then! 🙂
    
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Annemieke on September 16, 2011 at 5:10 am
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Hi Mike,
I said I would keep you updated about new PhD positions: well, now there are again 4 (!) of them available in the Netherlands. The deadline for sending in proposals is 15 November. See http://www.ru.nl/publish/pages/612817/vacature_block_grant.pdf

Good luck!

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  Mike Aubrey on September 21, 2011 at 2:41 pm
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  Sigh. If I wasn’t knee deep in a thesis project as we speak, I’d probably jump at this opportunity. Right now we’re looking at being done with our current program in the summer of 2012.
  
  Thanks for this, though. I’ll be keeping an eye on the OIKOS National Research School over the next couple of years though. You have at least given us some direction for an excellent avenue for the future. Thank for you for that!
  
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