LINGUIST List 26.1675
Sun Mar 29 2015
Jobs: English; Historical Linguistics; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics: Post Doc, University of Antwerp
Editor for this issue: Andrew Lamont <alamontlinguistlist.org>
Date: 27-Mar-2015
From: Frank Brisard <frank.brisard
uantwerpen.be>
Subject: English; Historical Linguistics; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics: Post Doc, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
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Department: Linguistics
Job Location: Antwerp, Belgium
Web Address:
https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/ Job Title: Post-Doctoral researcher
Job Rank: Post Doc
Specialty Areas: Historical Linguistics; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics
Required Language(s):
English (eng) Description:
The Department of Linguistics at University of Antwerp is welcoming applications for the following position: post-doctoral researcher (100%) in the area of English historical sociolinguistics
Duties and Responsibilities
- You will carry out research related to the ERC starting grant ‘Mind-Bending Grammars: The dynamics of correlated multiple grammatical changes in Early Modern English writers’ (
https://www.uantwerpen.be/nl/projecten/mind-bending-grammars/, PI Peter Petré). The central topic of this project is how much syntactic change is possible in adult individuals.
- Your responsibilities include:
- Assisting in preparing the corpus of 17th-18th-century individuals;
- Charting a social network of these individuals;
- Carrying out corpus-based research on the grammaticalisation of grow and get (grow weak, obsolete grow a lawyer) in these individuals;
- Sharing thoughts with project team members (incl. co-supervision) on their case studies and the interaction of social and internal-cognitive dynamics;
- Disseminating the project’s results both professionally and for a wider audience.
- You provide limited teaching assistance in the department of linguistics.
Requirements
- You hold a doctorate degree (PhD) in linguistics;
- You are quality-oriented, conscientious, creative and cooperative;
- You are an expert in sociolinguistics, preferably from an English historical perspective;
- You have experience with corpus-based research;
- A functional-cognitive or constructionist background is an asset;
We offer an appointment for 3 years, starting 1 September 2015, with a competitive salary (gross monthly salary ranges from 3.896,31 euro – 6.074,02 euro), in a dynamic team on a prestigious research project financed by the European Research Council.
For a full description of the job conditions, including a link to the online application form, see the application website below.
Application Deadline: 15-May-2015
Web Address for Applications:
https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/jobs/vacancies/ap/2015bapflwex128/ Contact Information:
Frank Brisard
Email: frank.brisard
uantwerpen.be
Phone: +32 (0)3 265 42 69
Page Updated: 29-Mar-2015