<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><!--StartFragment--><p class="Body" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">A
research position for a Postdoctoral Researcher is available in the research
group ‘Information structure, syntax and typology’, headed by Dr. Robert Van
Valin, at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (Nijmegen, NL).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The position is now open. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The appointment is initially for 2
years, with possible extension for up to 3 additional years.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Body" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Body" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""><b>Research
Focus:</b></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""> The research
group ‘Information structure, syntax and typology’ represents a collaboration
between the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and the Heinrich Heine
University Düsseldorf, supported by a Max Plank Fellowship to Van Valin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The group will investigate the
interaction of information structure and syntax across languages of varying structural
types.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Special emphasis will be
placed on the role information structure plays in the organization of
grammatical constructions and in core grammatical processes, and how it varies
across languages.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>In addition, the
implications of this interaction for language acquisition, in conjunction with
the Information Structure project in the Language Acquisition Group,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>for sentence-processing will be explored.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Body" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Body" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""><b>Requirements:</b></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""> Applicants should have a PhD in
Linguistics, and in-depth research experience on a language or language family
is highly desirable.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Body" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Body" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Review
of applications will begin January 15, 2009, and the position will remain open
until filled.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Body" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Body" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">The
Max Planck Society is an equal opportunity employer.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Body" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Body" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""><b>Applicants
should send their CV, a sample of their work, and the names and e-mail addresses
of at least two potential referees to</b></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">
<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Body" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Body" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""><a href="mailto:vanvalin@phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de">vanvalin@phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Body" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Body" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">and
to (both hard copy and electronic)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Body" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Body" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Mrs.
Nanjo Bogdanowicz<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Body" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Language
Acquisition Group<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Body" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Max
Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Body" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Wundtlaan
1, 6525 XD NIJMEGEN<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Body" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">The
Netherlands<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Body" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Body" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""><a href="mailto:Nanjo.Bogdanowicz@mpi.nl">Nanjo.Bogdanowicz@mpi.nl</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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