LINGUIST List 26.3254
Fri Jul 10 2015
Support: French; Spanish; Germanic; Romance; General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Syntax; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Typology / Belgium
Editor for this issue: Erin Arnold <earnoldlinguistlist.org>
Date: 10-Jul-2015
From: Peter Lauwers <peter.lauwers
ugent.be>
Subject: Germanic; Romance; French; Spanish; General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Syntax; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Typology, PhD, Ghent University, Belgium
E-mail this message to a friend Department: Department of Linguistics, GLIMS
Web Address:
http://www.taalkunde.ugent.be/onderzoek Level: PhD
Institution/Organization: Ghent University
Duties: Research,Project Work
Specialty Areas: General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Syntax; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Typology
Required Language(s):
French (fra) Spanish (spa) Germanic
Romance
Description:
Doctoral fellow at Ghent University, Department of Linguistics
The research group GLIMS (Ghent Research Team on Linguistic Meaning and Structure) is looking for a full-time doctoral fellow for the period of four years, to work on a project funded by the UGent Special Research Fund (BOF) (see the summary below):
In search of the analytical resultative construction :
A microtypological comparison of Romance and Germanic languages
Degree requirements: Master of (historical) linguistics (or an equivalent degree).
The candidate should have an excellent knowledge of French and Spanish, in addition to a third (Romance or Germanic) language.
The candidate is expected to have a great interest in linguistic research, as evidenced in, preferably, a Master paper in the area of linguistics with a focus on (at least) one of the languages mentioned above.
Ghent University offers a four-year contract starting on 1 December 2015. In this time a PhD dissertation has to be completed. Information about salary can be found on:
http://www.ugent.be/nl/vacatures/categorieen-salarisschalen/salarisschalen/wpwm2.htm The deadline for applications is 15 September 2015. Applications should be submitted to peter.lauwers
ugent.be and should consist of: a detailed CV (including degree grades), a letter of motivation in French or Spanish.
Contact one of the project supervisors for more information: peter.lauwers
ugent, renata.enghels
ugent.be, miriam.taverniers
ugent.be, marleen.vanpeteghem
ugent.be
Brief Summary of the Project:
This project is looking for (traces of) the resultative verbal construction (e.g. Ed hammers the metal flat; flat = the result of the hammering) in a number of Romance (French, Spanish) and one Germanic (e.g. Dutch) language. The aim is to capture the microtypological variation w.r.t. the lexical scope (what categories are allowed in this construction: adjectives? prepositional phrases? nominals?) and productivity of the construction (is the construction limited to a specific verb class, or is it open?), against the background of other typological properties of the languages studied.
Applications Deadline: 15-Sep-2015
Mailing Address for Applications:
Attn: Peter Lauwers
Belgium
Contact Information:
Peter Lauwers
Dept:Department of Linguistics, GLIMS
Email: peter.lauwers
ugent.be
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