As all of you have undoubtedly noticed, my blog has been awfully quiet. I never intended for this to happen, but I had an MA Thesis to work on, and this took up a lot of time, while the rest of the time was trying to do stuff not related to Linguistics.
But now I'm finished with my MA Thesis titled "Nouns of the CVC and CC type in Berber" which was graded with an 8/10 and therefore is a solid pass.
I will put my thesis up at some point, probably through academia.edu (which is a really great 'facebook for academia' which I found out about much too late). Feel free to follow me at http://leidenuniv.academia.edu/MarijnvanPutten
So what's up next?
Well, I sent in a PhD proposal previous year to do an Etymological dictionary of Berber basing myself first and foremost on the data attested in Zénaga.
57 people applied for the 2 positions in Leiden, I became 5th. Thus, I did really well, but not well enough.
In this gap year, I plan to work on my PhD proposal to make it extra convincing, get several articles published both on Berber/Proto-Berber and Proto-Indo-European and start working on a database of the Proto-Berber dictionary.
Congrats!
I saw those Leiden positions too (or the ones put up last April-May at any rate), was tempted to apply, but didn't in the end. I wasn't sure it was the right place to take my own Ph.D. proposal. Also my M.A. thesis wasn't finished at that time, and they seemed to want a copy with the application.
What about SOAS in London? I'm sure they'd love to have someone like you.
Posted by: Mattitiahu | 08/29/2011 at 07:47 PM
Congratulations!
Posted by: Hans | 09/06/2011 at 11:07 AM