28.907, Support: French; Spanish Psycholinguistics; Syntax; Text/Corpus Linguistics / Germany

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Subject: 28.907, Support:  French; Spanish Psycholinguistics; Syntax; Text/Corpus Linguistics / Germany

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Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 14:35:35
From: Aria Adli [aria.adli at uni-koeln.de]
Subject: French; Spanish Psycholinguistics; Syntax; Text/Corpus Linguistics: PhD, University of Cologne (Universität zu Köln), Germany

 Institution/Organization: University of Cologne (Universität zu Köln) 
Department: Collaborative Research Center 1252 
Web Address: http://sfb1252.uni-koeln.de/ 

Level: PhD 

Duties: Research,Project Work
 
Specialty Areas: Psycholinguistics; Syntax; Text/Corpus Linguistics 
information structure 
Required Language(s): French (fra)
                      Spanish (spa) 

Description:

The Institute of Romance Studies at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the
University of Cologne is looking to fill a position as Ph.D. candidate in the
Collaborative Research Centre: SFB 1252 ''Prominence in Language''.

Commencement of employment is scheduled for 15th of April 2017. The position
offered is part time with weekly working time of 25,89 hours (65%) and is a
fixed-term work contract ending on 31st of December 2020. lf pay scale
requirements are met the position will be remunerated in accordance with pay
grade 13 TV-L.

Area of responsibility: 

The focus of this research project is the relation between prominence and
information structure through examining the following: 

- The role of prominent syntactic positions as attractors for
information-structural units in non-canonical word order.
- The competition between various prominent candidates in canonical word
order.

The Ph.D. student will focus on the second aspect and will examine this
primarily based upon the Spanish and French language corpus data. 

Her/his responsibilities include: 

- She/he will independently conduct an explorative corpus study of the spoken
language corpus http://sgscorpus.com/ in order to identify semantic properties
which occur frequently with topic expressions. 
- Working independently and employing a corpus-based approach she/he will
examine constructions that exhibit ambiguity with regard to the topical
argument. 
- She/he will independently conduct an annotation experiment of Spanish and
French identifying in a bottom-up manner the respective weight of those
semantic properties relevant to topicality. 
- She/he will independently perform an elicitation experiment of spoken
Spanish or French (in Spain or France) to examine the discourse continuity
mainly in constructions with suboptimal topic candidates. 
- She/he will develop an algorithmic model of the relation between syntactic
prominence and information structure based on the preliminary studies of the
principle investigator and the work of the postdoc.

For more information please consult: http://sfb1252.uni-koeln.de/

Profile: 

- She/he is a team player capable of conceptual thinking and can familiarize
herself/himself quickly with new lines of research. 
- She/he is highly capable of working independently and well versed with
regard to interfacing with related subprojects.
- A flawless command of spoken and written English as well as an elevated
level of proficiency in French or Spanish (with sufficient structural
knowledge of the other language to perform analytical corpus-based work) are
required. Knowledge of German is a plus. 
- She/he is capable of working with superior efficiency due to her/his
result-oriented and well-organized work approach.

Job prerequisites: 

- Master in linguistics (Spanish or French linguistics preferred) 
- Knowledge of corpus linguistics (annotation, corpus querying) and
statistical analysis is desirable.

Applications should include a statement of interest (letter of motivation,
addressed to Professor Aria Adli), a CV including a list of publications, a
copy of the most important publications if available, a copy of the relevant
degrees/certificates, the names and addresses of two referees. 

Applications should be sent as a single PDF file to the application email:
application-sfb1252 at uni-koeln.de with the subject ''PhD C01''. The application
deadline is March 10, 2017. 

lf you should have questions regarding the position please contact: Professor
Aria Adli (aria.adli at uni-koeln.de)
 

Application Deadline: 10-Mar-2017 

Mailing Address for Applications:
	Attn: Prof. Aria Adli 
	University of Cologne, Romanisches Seminar 
	Albertus-Magnus-Platz 
	Cologne NRW 50923 
	Germany 
	
Contact Information: 
	Prof. Aria Adli 
	aria.adli at uni-koeln.de  


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