LINGUIST List 31.2866
Tue Sep 22 2020
Jobs: Slavic Subgroup; Serbian; Morphology; Syntax: Researcher, University of Surrey
Editor for this issue: Becca Morris <beccalinguistlist.org>
Date: 21-Sep-2020
From: Matthew Baerman <m.baermansurrey.ac.uk>
Subject: Slavic Subgroup; Serbian; Morphology; Syntax: Researcher, University of Surrey, UK
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University or Organization: University of Surrey
Department: Surrey Morphology Group
Job Location: Surrey, United Kingdom
Web Address: https://www.smg.surrey.ac.uk/
Job Title: Research Fellow
Job Rank: Researcher
Specialty Areas: Morphology; Syntax; Dialectology
Required Language(s): Serbian (srp)
Slavic Subgroup
Description:
The Surrey Morphology Group in the School of Literature and Languages, University of Surrey, is seeking to appoint a post-doctoral Research Fellow for a three-year Leverhulme Trust funded project “Declining Case: Inflectional Loss in Progress”. The project investigators are Matthew Baerman and Greville Corbett (Surrey), and Alexander Krasovitsky (Oxford).
The project will investigate the loss of case marking, a historical process that has profoundly transformed many of the languages of Europe. The focus will be on the area between East Serbia and West Bulgaria, where the process is still ongoing. This will enable us to explore aspects of language change that cannot be uncovered in the written record. The position advertised involves conducting fieldwork in Serbia, processing and annotating the resulting data, and presenting the results of this work at conferences and in publications, together with the project team.
The successful candidate should have experience in language description, and the elicitation and analysis of spoken language data, and be able to conduct fieldwork in Serbia, which will require a command of the spoken language. Candidates must have the ability to work independently while functioning as part of a research team. The start date for the position is 01 March 2021.
Information about the Surrey Morphology Group and their current research projects is available at www.smg.surrey.ac.uk.
Applications should be submitted using the online form at the application website. Informal enquiries may be made to Dr Matthew Baerman (m.baermansurrey.ac.uk) or Dr Alexander Krasovitsky (alexander.krasovitskymod-langs.ox.ac.uk).
Please note, it is University Policy to offer a starting salary equivalent to Level 3.6 (£31,866) to successful applicants who have been awarded, but are yet to receive, their PhD certificate. Once the original PhD certificate has been submitted to the local HR Department, the salary will be increased to Level 4.1 (£32,817).
To apply, please visit the application link provided below.
Application Deadline: 01-Nov-2020
Web Address for Applications: https://jobs.surrey.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?ref=038520
Contact Information:
Matthew Baerman
Email: m.baerman
surrey.ac.uk Page Updated: 22-Sep-2020