LINGUIST List 25.2328
Tue
May 27 2014
Support: English, Greek,
Russian, Turkish, General Ling, Historical Ling /
Germany
Editor for this issue:
Danuta Allen <danutalinguistlist.org>
Date: 27-May-2014
From: Juliana Diner
<juliana.diner
uni-bielefeld.de>
Subject: English, Greek,
Russian, Turkish, General Linguistics,
Historical Linguistics: PhD Student, Bielefeld
University, Germany
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Department: Faculty of Linguistics and Literary
Studies
Web Address:
http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/lili/startseite/fakultaet.html
Level: PhD
Institution/Organization: Bielefeld
University
Duties: Research,Project Work
Specialty Areas: General Linguistics;
Historical Linguistics
Language Change, Language Contact
Required Language(s):
English (eng)
Greek,
Modern (ell)
Russian
(rus)
Turkish
(tur)
Description:
The Faculty of Linguistics and Literary
Studies, University of Bielefeld, Germany, is
seeking a candidate for a half-time position of
a research assistant (Wissenschaftlicher
Mitarbeiter/Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) in
linguistics (E 13 TV-L) in the working group
“General Linguistics” (Prof. Stavros
Skopeteas).
The research group 'General Linguistics' in the
Department of Linguistics specializes in the
development of precise methods for
cross-linguistic comparison, with particular
emphasis on the investigation of empirical
questions that are relevant for the
contemporary syntactic and semantic theories
under consideration of language diversity.
The present announcement is related to the
project investigating grammatical change in a
language contact situation ('The impact of
current transformational processes on language
and ethnic identity: Urum and Pontic Greeks in
Georgia', funded by the Volkswagen
foundation).
The candidate will be a member of the research
group “General Linguistics” at the Bielefeld
University.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- developing and conducting empirical studies
on language contact; presentation of the
results in
conferences and preparation of scientific
publications (60%);
- coordination of the research activities of
the project partners in Georgia (20%);
- participation in academic administration and
administration of the project (20%).
The candidate is expected to write a Ph.D. in
the context of the project.
The starting date is September 1, 2014; the
position is for 34 months.
Requirements
All candidates must posses:
- M.A. in Linguistics;
- solid grammatical background under
consideration of the contemporary
Phonological,
Morphological, Syntactic, or Semantic
theories;
- experience in empirical methods (corpus
studies or development of experiments);
- knowledge in the languages that are relevant
for the project: Russian, Turkish, Urum, Greek,
or
Georgian;
- experience in the research on language change
or language contact.
How to apply:
Applications (with CV, publication list, a
representative publication) should be addressed
(preferably electronically in a single
PDF-file) to:
Frau Juliana Diner, Universität Bielefeld at
juliana.diner
uni-bielefeld.de or:
Universität Bielefeld
Fakultät für Linguistik und
Literaturwissenschaft
Postfach 10 01 31
33501 Bielefeld
Applications by disabled applicants are
strongly encouraged. The Bielefeld University
welcomes applications by women and deals with
these applications in accordance with the state
law for equality.
Contact information:
Prof. Dr. Stavros Skopeteas, Universität
Bielefeld
stavros.skopeteas
uni-bielefeld.de.
Applications Deadline: 20-Jun-2014
Mailing Address for Applications:
Attn:
Ms Juliana Diner Universität Bielefeld Fakultät
für Linguistik und Literaturwissenschaft
Postfach 10 01 31 Bielefeld 33501 Germany
Contact Information:
Ms
Juliana Diner juliana.diner
uni-bielefeld.de
Page Updated: 27-May-2014