<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><br class=""></font><div class=""><div class=""><div style="text-align: center;" class="">Postdoctoral Fellowship in Experimental Syntax, Semantics and/or Pragmatics</div><font color="#000000" class=""><div style="text-align: center;" class="">LABEX "Empirical Foundations of Linguistics"</div><div style="text-align: center;" class=""><a href="http://www.labex-efl.org/" class="">http://www.labex-efl.org/</a></div><div style="text-align: center;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align: center;" class="">Université Paris Sorbonne Cité</div><div style="text-align: center;" class="">Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle</div><div style="text-align: center;" class=""><a href="http://www.llf.cnrs.fr/" class="">http://www.llf.cnrs.fr/</a></div><div style="text-align: center;" class="">CNRS-Université Paris Diderot</div><br class="">Specialty Areas: Semantics; Syntax; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics; Psycholinguistics; Computational Linguistics<br class=""><br class="">Description:<br class="">The Labex EFL (Empirical Foundations of Linguistics, <a href="http://www.labex-efl.org/" class="">http://www.labex-efl.org/</a>) is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher in experimental syntax, semantics and/or pragmatics. The position is for 12<br class="">months (full time), and, depending on the results, may be renewed for another 12 months.<br class="">The position is provided by the strand « Experimental Grammar » of the Labex EFL project (strand 2).<br class="">The postdoc is expected to have knowledge of theoretical syntax, semantics and pragmatics, as well as empirical methods: annotated corpora, experiments, and statistics. The postdoc will work within<br class="">the context of the SA4 work package, entitled Near-Synonymy, Semantic Equivalence and Syntactic Variation (<a href="https://sites.google.com/site/labexeflsa4/home" class="">https://sites.google.com/site/labexeflsa4/home</a>). As such, their primary responsibility will<br class="">be to conduct quantitative and/or experimental research on syntactic variation and change, and its relation to semantic, pragmatic and/or social meaning.<br class=""><br class="">Applicants should propose a research project that they will work on during their contract. Phenomena currently being studied within SA4 include argument structure alternations and grammatical gender<br class="">alternations in French, German and Russian. These topics could serve as the focus of the postdoctoral project; however, applicants are also highly encouraged to propose an original project based on their<br class="">research interests which relates quantitative morpho-syntactic variation to meaning. Projects combining research in formal syntax/semantics/pragmatics with sociolinguistic, psycholinguistic<br class="">and/or computational research are particularly desirable.<br class="">There are no teaching requirements in this position. However, regular participation in collective scientific activities (e.g., seminars) will be expected. Knowledge of French is an asset but not required.<br class=""><br class="">Research Environment:<br class="">The postdoc will be affiliated with the Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle (LLF <a href="http://www.llf.cnrs.fr/" class="">http://www.llf.cnrs.fr/</a>), located in the 13th arrondissement of Paris. The LLF is an interdisciplinary<br class="">research laboratory linked to the Department of Linguistics (UFR de Linguistique) at the Université Paris Diderot (<a href="https://www.univ-paris-diderot.fr/" class="">https://www.univ-paris-diderot.fr/</a>), which brings together researchers from<br class="">computational, experimental, theoretical, and descriptive linguistics. The lab has an experimental room, a lab assistant as well as experimental material (eyetracker, SMI glasses, portable EEG...), and<br class="">houses a number of computational resources for corpus studies on French and other languages (French Treebank, ELICO, French parsed Wikipedia...).<br class="">The postdoc will also benefit from the lively syntax/semantics/pragmatics community in Paris, which includes labs such as the Institut Jean Nicod (ENS Paris) and Structures Formelles du Langage (Paris 8).<br class=""><br class="">Starting date and salary:<br class="">The starting date of the position is flexible: between June 2018 and October 2018. The applicant's PhD should have been defended and filed by the starting date. The position will pay 26.000 euros net per<br class="">year.<br class=""><br class="">Application details:<br class="">Prospective applicants should send:<br class="">- A curriculum vitae including publications<br class="">- a brief statement of research interests including a description of the research project to be undertaken during the contract (up to 4 pages)<br class="">- a website address where the publications can be downloaded.<br class="">- names of professors for reference letters.<br class=""><br class="">For full consideration, please send the application in a single email and arrange to have (up to three) letters of reference sent directly by their author by March 1, 2018. All communication and materials<br class="">should be addressed to the application email address below. We intend to (Skype) interview and select candidates in March 2018.<br class=""><br class="">Application Deadline: March 1, 2018<br class="">Contacts for applications: Anne Abeillé and Heather Burnett<br class="">Email address for applications and/or questions: <a href="mailto:heather.susan.burnett@gmail.com" class="">heather.susan.burnett@gmail.com</a><br class=""></font><br class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>