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    莱顿大学（Leiden University），全球百强名校，世界级顶尖研究型大学。成立于公元1575年，是荷兰第一所国立大学。自2018年以来，莱顿大学与中国内陆的顶尖高校建立了深度合作关系，包括清华大学和北京大学。在过去近五个世纪，莱顿大学培养了众多影响人类文明进程的杰出人才，享有极高的国际声誉及学术影响力，科学家爱因斯坦在此任教长达26年。截止至2017年，该校共诞生过16位诺贝尔奖得主，如洛伦兹、爱因斯坦、费米等；培养了笛卡尔、惠更斯、伦勃朗、斯宾诺莎等科学文艺巨匠；9位国家元首及皇室成员都曾在此求学、任教，如美国总统亚当斯、英国首相丘吉尔、荷兰首相马克·吕特、南非总统曼德拉、两任北约秘书长等。莱顿大学与牛津大学、剑桥大学、爱丁堡大学、苏黎世大学、阿姆斯特丹大学等23所世界名校共同建立了欧洲研究型大学联盟。它也是科英布拉集团、Europaeum等高校组织的一员。该校的斯宾诺莎奖获奖人数常年稳居荷兰高校第一。有超过40个国家级和国际研究机构在此设立 。 

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Project description

We are looking for a PhD candidate for the project the development of Scottish English in the 18th and 19th centuries; a view from above and below. The history of Scots, most noticeably in its written form, is marked by a process of Anglicization, i.e. the decline of Scots orthographic, grammatical and lexical features in favour of Southern English features. This process started around the late sixteenth century under the increasing cultural, economic and political dominance of England and is thought to have been largely completed in the course of the eighteenth century. Although the new written (and to some extent spoken) anglicized variety resembles English in many respects, English as used in Scotland has its own characteristic features. As a result, a complex sociolinguistic situation has emerged where Scots primarily has vernacular status, and a Scottish variety of English enjoys official prestige in both written and spoken form. As of today, there are still many questions about how and when Scottish English emerged. The aim of the project is to take a diachronic corpus approach to investigate in what respects written Scottish English differs from its English counterparts, and how and when these features developed over time. In doing so, the project aims to consider the role of prescriptive grammars, the social status of speaker-writers, region of origin, text-type and genre variation, as well as internal linguistic factors and dialect contact phenomena. The project includes the collection and digitization of 18th to 20th-century Scottish archive material to create a diachronic corpus.

Selection criteria

Completed (Res)MA degree in linguistics

Experience with 18th and 19th-century (Scottish) paleography

Experience with digital corpus development and mark-up languages such as XML (using TEI guidelines)

Affinity with historical sociolinguistic approaches, with a particular interest in prescriptivism, language history from below, language standardization, Scottish English and Standard English

Affinity with genre and register variation studies

Excellent command of English

Preferred qualifications include affinity with the history of Scots and Scottish English

Information

For further information on this project please contact Dr Mo Gordon, email [e-mail], or on practical matters Maarit van Gammeren LLM, email [e-mail].

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