LINGUIST List 22.4364 Thu Nov 03 2011 Jobs: Semantics; Countability & Pluralization: Post Doc, Laboratory EFL Editor for this issue: Christy Bird <christylinguistlist.org> The LINGUIST List strongly encourages employers to engage in non-discriminatory hiring practices. We urge employers not to discriminate on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, age, religion, gender, or sexual orientation. However, we have no means of enforcing these standards. Job seekers should pay special attention to language in ads regarding employment requirements and are encouraged to consult our international employment page at http://linguistlist.org/jobs/jobnet.html. This page has been set up so that people can report on the employment standards of various countries. To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at http://linguistlist.org/posttolinguist.cfm Directory         1.     Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin , The Semantics of Countability and Pluralization: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Laboratory Empirical Foundations of Linguistics, Paris, France Message 1: The Semantics of Countability and Pluralization: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Laboratory Empirical Foundations of Linguistics, Paris, France Date: 02-Nov-2011 From: Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin <carmen.sorinlinguist.jussieu.fr> Subject: The Semantics of Countability and Pluralization: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Laboratory Empirical Foundations of Linguistics, Paris, France E-mail this message to a friend University or Organization: Laboratory Empirical Foundations of Linguistics Job Location: Paris, France Web Address: http://www.labex-efl.org/ Job Rank: Post Doc Specialty Areas: Semantics; The Semantics of Countability and Pluralization Description: Contact: Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin, LLF Contact email: carmen.sorinlinguist.jussieu.fr University: University Paris 7 Job rank: Postdoctoral researcher Duration: 12 months, from dec. 2011/jan. 2012 Salary: 24,000 EUR net income a year Keywords: Syntax-Semantics interface, Formal Semantics, pluralities and quantification Application deadline: 2011/11/10 Application email: marandinlinguist.jussieu.fr Application reference: EFL-PLU Applicants are invited to work in a 10-year project 'Empirical foundations of linguistics'. The candidate will work in Strand 2 : "Experimental Grammar in a cross linguistic perspective". This a full time position. The successful applicant will have to document qualifications in linguistics/ psycholinguistics at the PhD level. S/he should have defended his/her PhD before December 1st, 2011. Applicants will be assessed by an expert committee. The main emphasis of the assessment will be on the applicant's potential for research, as evident from: PhD thesis, other scholarly works and project description. Application form will include: updated CV; the reference of two referents (with email address); web address with publications. The candidate will work on the analysis of the mass/count distinction, pluralities and quantification in several languages (Romance, with special emphasis on French, Italian, Romanian and Brazilian Portuguese), as well as typologically unrelated languages, such as Mandarin Chinese, Somali or Karitiana. His/her task will be: to help establishing and validate empirical generalizations in the test languages; to contribute to designing experiments that are meant to (i) ascertain the data (by testing grammaticality judgments in an online fashion) and (ii) to evaluate competing theories; to integrate the results of the (independently driven) psycholinguistic experiments within the theory that will be elaborated in the project. The ideal candidate should demonstrate previous experience on the subject, and an in-depth knowledge of formal semantics and the syntax-semantics interface. Knowledge of one or more of the languages involved in the project will be a plus. Application Deadline: 10-Nov-2011 Email Address for Applications: marandinlinguist.jussieu.fr Contact Information: Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin Email: carmen.sorinlinguist.jussieu.fr Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 03-Nov-2011       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.