<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">The group in Empirical Methods in Syntax at the Linguistics Department</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">of the University of Potsdam, Germany, is seeking one doctoral-student</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">researcher to work on a corpus-research project involving information</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">structure in Hindi.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">The starting date is sometime between January and March 2008.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">Prerequisites are (i) a good background in any branch of cognitive</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">science (e.g., linguistics, psychology, computer science), with a</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">focus on corpus-based research of language, (ii) native knowledge of</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">Hindi (this includes native fluency in reading the Devanagari script),</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">and (iii) programming skills. Fluency in English will be an advantage.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">Knowledge of German is not required but the successful candidate will be</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">expected to acquire a working knowledge of German over time.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">The successful candidate will work in project C6 'Empirical and corpus</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">investigations of information structure in Hindi' within the</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">Sonderforschungsbereich 632 (Collaborative Research Centre</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">'Information structure', <a href="http://www.sfb632.uni-potsdam.de/">http://www.sfb632.uni-potsdam.de/</a>), funded by</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">German Research Foundation (<a href="http://www.dfg.de">www.dfg.de</a>). For further information on</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">the SFB, visit the website above.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">The position is temporary, with a contract extending over three years,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">with the possibility of up to an additional year depending on various</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">factors. The salary and social benefits are determined by the German</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">pay scale for state employees (Entgeltgruppe: 13 TV-Laender,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">Tarifgebiet Ost; formerly BAT-O IIa) and amounts to approximately EUR</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">1500 per month, working half-time. The exact salary amount varies</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">depending on the highest academic degree attained by the applicant,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">marital status, age, and so on. The candidate will be expected to</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">enroll in the PhD program at the Institute for Linguistics at the</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">University of Potsdam.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">The Empirical Methods group offers a very interactive academic</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">environment, with intensive student-faculty interaction and a</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">relatively large group of highly motivated researchers engaged in</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">psycholinguistic (experimental) research and computational cognitive</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">modeling. There are strong research ties with other areas within</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">Linguistics, such as Clinical Linguistics, Computational Linguistics,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">Phonology, and Syntax, and with the Department of Psychology at the</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">University of Potsdam. In addition, close research collaborations are</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">maintained with the Department of Psychology, Michigan, and</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">Computational Linguistics, Michigan State University, in the USA.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">The University of Potsdam is located in the exquisite city of Potsdam,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">which is approximately 30 km from, and easily reachable by car and</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">express train, the vibrant capital of Germany, Berlin.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">The University of Potsdam is an equal opportunity employer.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">Interested candidates are invited to send, via email, their</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">application materials (a CV, [links to] sample publications, a</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">brief statement of research interests and the names of two or three</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">referees). Applications received by Dec 31, 2007 will receive fullest</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">consideration; however, the position will remain open until filled.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">Application materials should be sent to: <a href="mailto:rukshin@gmail.com">rukshin@gmail.com</a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">Contact person:</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">Rukshin Shaher</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">Institute for Linguistics, Potsdam </p>
<br>-- <br>Professor Dr. Shravan Vasishth<br>Empirical Methods in Syntax<br>Institute for Linguistics, Potsdam, Germany<br>Tel: +49-(0)331-977-2016, -2457 Fax: -2087<br><a href="http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/~vasishth">
http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/~vasishth</a>