26.3254, Support: French; Spanish; Germanic; Romance; General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Syntax; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Typology / Belgium

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LINGUIST List: Vol-26-3254. Fri Jul 10 2015. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 26.3254, Support: French; Spanish; Germanic; Romance; General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Syntax; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Typology / Belgium

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Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 14:13:04
From: Peter Lauwers [peter.lauwers at ugent.be]
Subject: Germanic; Romance; French; Spanish; General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Syntax; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Typology, PhD, Ghent University, Belgium

 Institution/Organization: Ghent University 
Department: Department of Linguistics, GLIMS 
Web Address: http://www.taalkunde.ugent.be/onderzoek 

Level: PhD 

Duties: Research,Project Work

Specialty Areas: General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Syntax; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Typology 

Required Language(s): French (fra)
                      Spanish (spa) 

                      Germanic 
                      Romance 

Description:

Doctoral fellow at Ghent University, Department of Linguistics

The research group GLIMS (Ghent Research Team on Linguistic Meaning and Structure) is looking for a full-time doctoral fellow for the period of four years, to work on a project funded by the UGent Special Research Fund (BOF) (see the summary below):

In search of the analytical resultative construction :
A microtypological comparison of Romance and Germanic languages

Degree requirements: Master of (historical) linguistics (or an equivalent degree).
The candidate should have an excellent knowledge of French and Spanish, in addition to a third (Romance or Germanic) language.

The candidate is expected to have a great interest in linguistic research, as evidenced in, preferably, a Master paper in the area of linguistics with a focus on (at least) one of the languages mentioned above.

Ghent University offers a four-year contract starting on 1 December 2015. In this time a PhD dissertation has to be completed. Information about salary can be found on:

http://www.ugent.be/nl/vacatures/categorieen-salarisschalen/salarisschalen/wpwm2.htm

The deadline for applications is 15 September 2015. Applications should be submitted to peter.lauwers at ugent.be and should consist of: a detailed CV (including degree grades), a letter of motivation in French or Spanish.

Contact one of the project supervisors for more information: peter.lauwers at ugent, renata.enghels at ugent.be, miriam.taverniers at ugent.be, marleen.vanpeteghem at ugent.be

Brief Summary of the Project:

This project is looking for (traces of) the resultative verbal construction (e.g. Ed hammers the metal flat; flat = the result of the hammering) in a number of Romance (French, Spanish) and one Germanic (e.g. Dutch) language. The aim is to capture the microtypological variation w.r.t. the lexical scope (what categories are allowed in this construction: adjectives? prepositional phrases? nominals?) and productivity of the construction (is the construction limited to a specific verb class, or is it open?), against the background of other typological properties of the languages studied. 

Application Deadline: 15-Sep-2015 

Mailing Address for Applications:
	Attn: Peter Lauwers
	Belgium 

Contact Information: 
	Peter Lauwers
	Dept:Department of Linguistics, GLIMS
	Email: peter.lauwers at ugent.be  

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