[HPSG-L] PhD position in Frankfurt

[Manfred Sailer]

Dear all,

there is a phd position to be filled at the Frankfurt graduate school  
on "nominal modification". Please note that the applicant's  
disseration project should have a strong semantic component.

Best wishes,

Manfred.

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The Institute for Linguistics of the Goethe University Frankfurt  
offers full funding for



1 graduate student

(E13 TV-G-U, 65%-part-time)



The candidate aims for a doctoral degree in linguistics. This position  
will be part of the graduate school "Nominal Modification", funded by  
the German Science Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG),  
pending financing from the DFG. The starting date is January 1, 2019  
and the position will be funded for 3 years including social benefits.



Tasks:

The applicant is expected to write a dissertation based on independent  
research and to actively participate in the advanced courses offered.  
The ideal candidate has a research focus in semantics. The chosen  
candidate will be integrated in a team of 12 doctoral students and  
will be encouraged and receive financial support to participate in  
conferences and summer schools and to conduct empirical research.  
Internationally renowned scholars will be invited for talks and  
seminars relevant to the research topics of the graduate students.



The research question of the graduate school "Nominal Modification"  
deals with the semantics of modification; here the focus is on the  
challenges for compositionality presented by non-locally interpreted  
modifiers. Furthermore, differences between various kinds of local  
modification are also investigated; in particular, cognitive  
explanations for the overall preference of modification by  
intersection and subsective modification in general will be sought.

Further aspects of the programme cover syntax, typology and phonology.



The school will also cooperate with Goethe University’s graduate  
academy GRADE, which provides support regarding structured doctoral  
education and offers additional training, consulting, and networking  
events.

Detailed information about the research programme, including a list of  
the faculty involved in the programme, and a list of potential  
dissertation topics, can be found at http://nominal-modification.de  
<http://nominal-modification.de/>.



Application Requirements:

Applicants should have an M.A. in linguistics, or equivalent, with the  
degree completed by January 1, 2019.



Required documents:

·       proposal (1-3 pages) in English that describes the research  
topic the candidate plans to work on in his/her doctoral thesis and  
the candidate’s research interests; the research topic has to be  
related to semantic aspects of nominal modification;

·       representative sample of research work (e.g. an advanced  
seminar paper or M.A. thesis);

·       two names of references who may be contacted by the search committee;

·       Curriculum Vitae (CV);

·       transcripts (German or English version) of their BA and MA courses

·       BA degree

·       MA.degree (to be handed in the latest by January 1, 2019, if  
not already available by October, 2018).



All required documents for the application should be emailed as pdf  
attachments (no paper) to Prof. Dr. Caroline Féry at  
caroline.fery at gmail.com (subject line: nominal modification).  
Application deadline: 10 October, 2018



Detailed information about the research programme, including a list of  
the programme’s faculty and a list of potential dissertation topics,  
can be found at http://nominal-modification.de  
<http://nominal-modification.de/>.

Contact information: Dr. Heidi Klockmann, klockmann at lingua.uni-frankfurt.de


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Manfred Sailer
Institut für England- und Amerikastudien
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
Norbert-Wollheim-Platz 1
60629 Frankfurt a.M.
http://user.uni-frankfurt.de/~sailer/index.html
sailer at em.uni-frankfurt.de