LINGUIST List 11.2573

Wed Nov 29 2000

Jobs: (Post)-PhD Research at U of Frankfurt, Germany

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1. Thomas E. Zimmermann, Doc, Post-Doc Research at U of Frankfurt, Germany

The graduate programme ("Graduiertenkolleg", GK) in linguistics at the
University of Frankfurt/Main offers two post-doc positions and 8
doctoral research grants. The GK has as its focus of research
"Sentence types: variation and interpretation" and will start on April
1, 2001.

The role of the postdocs in the GK is to facilitate cross-discipline
doctoral research. Postdocs will be expected to coordinate and
support dissertation projects in more than one sub-discipline. One
postdoctoral position is reserved for "Syntax/Typology" research.
Applicants for this position should have significant expertise in both
the formal theory of grammar and in language typology. The other
position is for "Semantics/pragmatics". Again applicants for this
position should have significant expertise in both formal semantics
and pragmatics.

Information (in German) about the sub-projects of the graduate
programme can be found on the internet under
http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/FB/fb10/grad_koll/. 

Applications are to be sent by December 31, 2000, to the head of the
graduate programme, Prof. Dr. G. Grewendorf, Institut f�r Deutsche
Sprache und Literatur II, Universit�t Frankfurt, Gr�fstr. 76,
60054 Frankfurt am Main, Germany.