29.634, Support: General Linguistics: PhD, Goethe University

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Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2018 14:17:28
From: Birgit Nutz [nutz at lingua.uni-frankfurt.de]
Subject: General Linguistics: PhD, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany

 Institution/Organization: Goethe University, Frankfurt 
Department: Faculty of Modern Languages, Linguistics 

Level: PhD 

Duties: Research
 
Specialty Areas: General Linguistics 
Nominal Modification 

Description:

The Institute for Linguistics of the Goethe University Frankfurt offers
funding for 3 graduate students (E13 TV-G-U, 65%-part-time).

The candidates aim for a doctoral degree in linguistics. These 3 positions
will be part of the graduate school 'Nominal Modification', funded by the
German Science Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG), pending
financing from the DFG. The starting date is October 1, 2018 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.

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://nominal-modification.de.

Application Requirements:
Applicants should have an M.A. in linguistics, or equivalent, with the degree
completed by October 1, 2018.
Required documents:
- proposal (1-3 pages) in English 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);
- transcripts (German or English version) of their BA and MA courses
- BA degree
- MA.degree (to be handed in the latest by October 1, 2018, if not already
available by April 16, 2018).

All required documents for the application should be emailed as pdf
attachments (no paper) to Prof. Dr. Caroline Féry at caroline.fery at gmail.com
(subject line: nominal modification). Application deadline: April 16, 2018.
 

Application Deadline: 16-Apr-2018 

Web Address for Applications: caroline.fery at gmail.com 

Contact Information: 
	Dr. Zheng Shen 
	Shen at em.uni-frankfurt.de  


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