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The Royal Museum for Central Africa is looking for a researcher in its Cultural Anthropology Departement, Linguistics Service.

FUNCTION: As part of an "Interuniversity Attraction Pole" in partnership with four Belgian universities and a German university and financed by the Belgian Science Policy, the Royal Museum for Central Africa recruits for the Linguistics Service a researcher under contract at the rank of assistant for the duration of 2 years, renewable once. The recruited candidate should start on July 1, 2007 and will undertake research on grammaticalization in the Bantu languages (mood, modality and evidentiality).

PROFILE: - The candidate should have completed a PhD-thesis in African linguistics. A good knowledge as well as publications on the Bantu languages and/or other languages of the Niger-Congo family in fields such as the comparative and historical linguistics, language description and language typology (especially grammaticalization) will be particularly appreciated. - The candidate should be capable of working in team and of integrating him/herself into a collective research program; - A good knowledge of English is indispensable. The command of French and/or Dutch is an additional asset.

APPLICATION: Applications, completed with a cover letter of motivation, a curriculum vitae, a certified copy of the PhD diploma and a complete list of the publications should be submitted no later than April 30, 2007 by post or email to the address below, with reference: s/ling.

Further information concerning this job offer can be obtained on the same address.