29.1058, Jobs: Pragmatics; Semantics: Post Doc, Utrecht University

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Subject: 29.1058, Jobs: Pragmatics; Semantics: Post Doc, Utrecht University

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Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2018 13:18:20
From: Bert Le Bruyn [b.s.w.lebruyn at uu.nl]
Subject: Pragmatics; Semantics: Post Doc, Utrecht University, Netherlands

University or Organization: Utrecht University 
Department: Utrecht Institute of Linguistics
Job Location: Utrecht, Netherlands 
Web Address: http://time-in-translation.hum.uu.nl
Job Title: Post-Doc (0,8 FTE, 3 years) in the project ‘Time in Translation'
Job Rank: Post Doc

Specialty Areas: Pragmatics; Semantics 

Required Language(s): Germanic
                      Romance 

Description:

You will be participating in the project Time in Translation: a semantics of
the Perfect (TinT). This project is funded by NWO, by way of a Vrije
Competitie project awarded to Prof. dr. Henriëtte de Swart and dr. Bert Le
Bruyn at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. The project aims to develop the
meaning of the present perfect. We will collect data from 5 languages (Dutch,
English, German, French, Spanish) in parallel corpora, and analyse perfect use
in relation to other verbal tense forms both at the sentence and at the
discourse level. Translation experiments will be used to check the space of
variation in choosing one form over another. 

TinT offers two PhD positions and one postdoc position. One PhD position has
been filled and we are currently hiring a PhD and Post-Doc. This ad is about
the Post-Doc position as it was originally defined. We invite candidates to
have a look at the project website (http://time-in-translation.hum.uu.nl) for
a description of the full project as tasks within the project can be worked
out further, expanded and shifted between the project members based on their
expertise, own research ideas, ... The project is a real team effort.

The Post-Doc will be working on the subproject ‘Truth-conditional and dynamic
semantics of the perfect’. S/he is the theoretical driving force of the
project and will lay the groundwork for the project’s semantic analyses of the
Perfect – both truth-conditional and dynamic. S/he will closely collaborate
with the PhD candidates and the PIs.

Tasks for the Post-Doc will include:
- Collaboration with the PhDs and the PIs; 
- Presentations at workshops and conferences;
- Publication of four peer-reviewed articles, partly in collaboration with
other project members;
- Co-organization of workshops and conferences;
- Teaching

Requirements for the Post-Doc:
- PhD in linguistics, with a focus on semantics and pragmatics, prior
experience with discourse theory, inquisitive semantics, corpus research
and/or experiments welcome;
- Ability to perform and publish high quality research, demonstrated for
instance by a strong publication record in international peer-reviewed
journals;
- Excellent English oral proficiency, academic writing and presentation
skills;
- Fluency in at least two languages of the project besides English (Dutch,
German, French, Spanish);
- Excellent organizational, social and communication skills.

Offer:
The successful postdoc candidate will be appointed on a fixed-term full-time
basis (38 hours per week/1,0 FTE), starting 1 June 2018 or soon thereafter.
The appointment is for a period of 36 months, with a one-year initial trial
period. The gross monthly salary is based on scale 10 (Collective Labour
Agreement Dutch Universities). 

Utrecht University offers a pension scheme, a holiday allowance of 8% per
year, an end-of-year bonus of 8.3% and flexible employment conditions.
Conditions are based on the Collective Employment Agreement of the Dutch
Universities. More information is available here: terms of employment.

Applications:
If interested in applying for the advertised position, please submit digital
copies of the following documents through the application website:
- a letter of motivation;
- a research statement of 1500 to 2000 words, explaining why and how you plan
to conduct this research;
- a CV;
- names and full contact details of two academic referees. 

A link to the application website will be added to the project’s website
(http://time-in-translation.hum.uu.nl) as soon as possible. 

Interviews, live or by videoconference, will be held in the week of April 9.

Application Deadline: 02-Apr-2018 

Web Address for Applications: http://time-in-translation.hum.uu.nl 
Contact Information:
	Prof. Dr. Henriëtte de Swart 
	Email: h.deswart at uu.nl 

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