10.64, Jobs: German Ling, Typology & Diachrony

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Subject: 10.64, Jobs: German Ling, Typology & Diachrony

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1)
Date:  Thu, 14 Jan 1999 11:26:18 +0100
From:  "Prof.Dr. Gisela Harras" <harras at ids-mannheim.de>
Subject:  Project: German Speech Act Verbs

2)
Date:  Thu, 14 Jan 1999 16:44:43 +0000
From:  Martin Haspelmath <haspelmath at eva.mpg.de>
Subject:  Typology & Diachrony, Postdoc at Max Plank Inst. in Leipzig

-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------

Date:  Thu, 14 Jan 1999 11:26:18 +0100
From:  "Prof.Dr. Gisela Harras" <harras at ids-mannheim.de>
Subject:  Project: German Speech Act Verbs


Stellenausschreibung


Am Institut fuer deutsche Sprache, Mannheim, sind fuer das von der
Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft gefoerderte Projekt: "Tendenzen der
Lexikalisierung kommunikativer Konzepte"


Zwei wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterstellen BAT IIa/halbe

zum 1.4.1999 zunaechst fuer zwei Jahre zu besetzen.

Die zukuenftigen Mitarbeiter/innen sollten einen Abschluss (Magister
oder Staatsexamen) in Germanistik mit Schwerpunkt Sprachwissenschaft
oder in Linguistik haben und ueber Grundkenntnisse in lexikalischer
Semantik verfuegen. Ausserdem sind Kenntnisse in linguistischer
Pragmatik/Sprechakttheorien wuenschenswert. Es wird erwartet, dass
sich die Mitarbeiter/innen an der Erarbeitung einer lexikalischen
Datenbank zur Semantik deutscher Sprechaktverben beteiligen und eigene
Forschungen zu einem Schwerpunktthema des Projekts betreiben.

Bewerbungen mit den ueblichen Unterlagen sind bis zum 20.2.1999 zu richten an:

Institut fuer deutsche Sprache
z.Hd. von Prof. Dr. Gisela Harras
R 5, 6-13
D-68161 Mannheim
Tel.: 0621/1581-420
e-mail: harras at ids-mannheim.de


-------------------------------- Message 2 -------------------------------

Date:  Thu, 14 Jan 1999 16:44:43 +0000
From:  Martin Haspelmath <haspelmath at eva.mpg.de>
Subject:  Typology & Diachrony, Postdoc at Max Plank Inst. in Leipzig

The Linguistics Department at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary
Anthropology is offering 1999 postdoctoral staff positions. These are
non_permanent positions for which the normal term of appointment is 2
years.

Applicants should have completed a Ph.D. in linguistics or a related
discipline (or expect to finish before starting the postdoctoral
position), and have a specialization in one or more of the following
areas:

1) linguistic typology;
2) documentation of a hitherto undescribed or little described language,

including fieldwork;
3) historical linguistics, preferably broad-scale and/or theoretically
oriented, including comparative linguistics and language contact;
4) development of computer tools to assist in any of the above.

Applicants are requested to send a C.V., statement of research
interests, two letters of recommendation, and a sample of written work
on a
relevant topic to:

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Personnel Administration
Prof. Dr. Bernard Comrie
- Postdoctoral staff position -
Inselstrasse 22
D-01403 Leipzig
Germany

fax:       +49 341 99 52 119
e_mail:   comrie at eva.mpg.de

The URL of the Max Planck Institute is: http://www.eva.mpg.de

Deadline for receipt of applications: 28 Feb 1999


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