28.739, Support: General Linguistics / Germany

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LINGUIST List: Vol-28-739. Tue Feb 07 2017. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 28.739, Support: General Linguistics / Germany

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Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2017 16:30:17
From: Sascha Alexeyenko [alexeyenko at em.uni-frankfurt.de]
Subject: General Linguistics: Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany

 Institution/Organization: Goethe University Frankfurt am Main 
Department: Institute for Linguistics 
Web Address: http://www2.uni-frankfurt.de/50692667 

Level: PhD 

Duties: Research
 
Specialty Areas: General Linguistics 
Nominal Modification 

Description:

The Institute for Linguistics of the Goethe University Frankfurt offers full
funding for 9 graduate students (E13 TV-G-U, 65%-part-time) who aim for a
doctoral degree in linguistics. These 9 positions will be part of the graduate
school ''Nominal Modification'', funded by the German Science Foundation
(Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG). The starting date is October 1, 2017
and each position will be funded for 3 years including social benefits.

Expectations: 
The students are expected to write a dissertation based on independent
research and to actively participate in the advanced courses offered. They
will be encouraged and receive financial support to participate in conferences
and summer schools and to conduct empirical research. Internationally renowned
scholars will be invited for talks and seminars relevant to the research
topics of the graduate students.

Tasks: 
The research programme of the school covers three major aspects of nominal
modification: First, the internal syntactic structure of nominal phrases with
regard to synchronic and diachronic diversity including typological aspects,
as well as processing and acquisition will be studied, particularly addressing
the problem of functional layers within the DP and the elements hosted there.
Second, the external structural properties of modified nominal phrases are
investigated with an emphasis on the phenomena extraposition, discontinuity
and non-locality. Here, the main aim is to explore the factors influencing the
choice of alternative constructions by conducting interdisciplinary research
in relevant fields including syntax, prosody and pragmatics. The third main
research question deals with the semantics of modification; here the focus is
on the challenges for compositionality presented by non-locally interpreted
modifiers. Furthermore, differences between various kinds of local
modification are investigated; in particular, cognitive explanations for the
overall preference of modification by intersection and subsective modification
in general will be sought.

Members of the graduate school will be eligible to participate in an exchange
programme with the Linguistics Department and the Institute for Research in
Cognitive Science at the University of Pennsylvania for one semester. The
school will also cooperate with Goethe University’s graduate academy GRADE,
which provides support regarding structured doctoral education and offers
additional training, consulting, and networking events. 

Detailed information about the research programme, including a list of the
faculty involved in the programme, and a list of potential dissertation
topics, can be found at http://www2.uni-frankfurt.de/50692667 and
http://nominal-modification.de.

Application requirements: Applicants should have an M.A. in linguistics, or
equivalent, with the degree completed by October 1, 2017.

Required documents: 
- letter of intent (1-3 pages) in English or German that describes the
research topic the candidate plans to work on in his/her doctoral thesis and
the candidate’s research interests; the research topic has to be related to
nominal modification;
- representative sample of research work (e.g. an advanced seminar paper or
M.A. thesis);
- two names of references who may be contacted by the search committee;
- Curriculum Vitae (CV);
- copy of M.A. degree (to be handed in the latest by October 1, 2017, if not
already available by April 30, 2017).
All required documents for the application should be emailed as pdf
attachments to Prof. Dr. Caroline Féry at caroline.fery at gmail.com (subject
line: nominal modification). Application deadline: April 30, 2017.
 

Application Deadline: 30-Apr-2017 

Mailing Address for Applications:
	Attn: Prof. Caroline Féry 
	Norbert-Wollheim-Platz 1 
	Frankfurt 60629 
	Germany 
	
Contact Information: 
	Dr. Sascha Alexeyenko 
	alexeyenko at em.uni-frankfurt.de  


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