29.2557, Support: English; Historical Linguistics: PhD Student, KU Leuven

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Subject: 29.2557, Support: English; Historical Linguistics: PhD Student, KU Leuven

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Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2018 13:23:02
From: Hendrik De Smet [hendrik.desmet at kuleuven.be]
Subject: English; Historical Linguistics: PhD Student, KU Leuven, Belgium

 Institution/Organization: KU Leuven 
Department: Linguistics - Functional and Cognitive Linguistics 

Level: PhD 

Duties: Research,Project Work
 
Specialty Areas: Historical Linguistics 
 
Required Language(s): English (eng)

Description:

A fully funded four-year PhD position is offered as part of the project
''Making the invisible uninvisible: the role of analogy in language change''.
The project seeks to use corpus evidence to gain better insight into the
workings of analogy as a mechanism of grammatical change. To this end, it will
focus specifically on the history of a small subsystem of the grammar of
English, adnumeral markers. The project will be supervised by Prof. Hendrik De
Smet, in collaboration with Graeme Trousdale (University of Edinburgh) and
Peter Petré (University of Antwerp). The project is to be carried out within
the Leuven-based research group 'Functional and Cognitive Linguistics: Grammar
& Typology' (FunC), which is part of the Department of Linguistics. More
information on the project and eligibility requirements can be found through
the link below.
 

Application Deadline: 01-Jul-2018 

Web Address for Applications: http://www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jobsite/jobs/54676146 

Contact Information: 
	Prof. Hendrik De Smet 
	hendrik.desmet at kuleuven.be 
	Phone:+32 16 32 47 72  


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