Call for Applications for Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme, 2020-21. Established in 2009 by the Hong Kong Research Grants Council (RGC), the Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme aims at attracting the best and brightest students in the world to pursue their PhD programmes in Hong Kong's institutions. The Department of Linguistics and Translation (http://www.cityu.edu.hk/lt), City University of Hong Kong is now inviting applications for the Scheme. The Dept has an exemplary record of teaching excellence and is internationally recognized for its world-class research. The QS (Quacquarelli Symonds) ranking for Linguistics of CityU rose from 47th in 2011 to 32nd in 2019. CityU becomes the top-ranked university in Hong Kong in Linguistics. More than 20 faculty members conduct empirically based and theoretically informed research in the areas of theoretical linguistics, applied linguistics, intelligent linguistics applications, corpus linguistics, computational linguistics, empirical linguistics, translation, interpretation, and translation studies.

Application deadline: 2 December 2019

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