LINGUIST List 11.2573

Wed Nov 29 2000

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

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

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Message 1: Doc, Post-Doc Research at U of Frankfurt, Germany

Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 18:24:37 +0100
From: Thomas E. Zimmermann <T.E.Zimmermannlingua.uni-frankfurt.de>
Subject: 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.

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