30.3467, Jobs: Romance; Historical Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics: Post Doc, Sorbonne University

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Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2019 12:31:31
From: Sorbonne University Sorbonne University Agence comptable Comptabilité fournisseurs - BC 500 4 Place Jussieu 75252 PARIS CEDEX 05 [anna.carlier at sorbonne-universite.fr]
Subject: Romance; Historical Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics: Post Doc, Sorbonne University, Paris, France

 
University or Organization: Sorbonne University 
Department: Research Lab STIH
Job Location: Paris, France 
Web Address: http://www.sorbonne-universite.fr/en
Job Title: Postdoc Romance Linguistics
Job Rank: Post Doc

Specialty Areas: Historical Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Required Language(s): Romance

Description:

Field of specialization: Linguistics & Philology
Duration of the Contract: 11 months
Salary Indication: 2410 €/month

Sorbonne University was created on January 1, 2018, and is the result of the
merger between Paris-Sorbonne University and Pierre and Marie Curie
University. It is a multidisciplinary, world-class university, with a long
tradition of academic excellence. Anchored in the heart of Paris, with a
regional presence, it is s devoted to the success of its students and is
committed to meeting the scientific challenges of the 21st century.

Project CoRaLHis:
Comparing Romance Languages through History (CoRaLHis): building a
multilingual parallel diachronic corpus (13th-18th C)

This project aims to provide a thorough understanding of how languages diverge
from each other over time in the field of Romance languages. It is part of a
long tradition of research on Romance studies initiated in the 19th century by
the comparatist works of Diez or Meyer-Lübke, but takes advantage of new
theoretical paradigms such as the theory of grammaticalization (see for
example Hopper/Traugott 1983, Lehmann 1985, Narrog & Heine 2011) and the
grammar of diachronic constructions (Traugott & Trousdale 2013).

Based on the assumption that the different Romance languages evolve and
innovate their grammar at a different rate and thus form a continuum of
innovation compared to their common ancestor, Latin (cf. thematic issue of
Folia Linguistica “On the Pace of Grammaticalization in Romance”), the aim is
to build a multilingual digital corpus of comparable texts from the 13th to
18th C. for Romania’s three main area’s (Gallo-, Italo- and Ibero-Romance), in
order to allow a large-scale and fine-grained empirically analysis of
linguistic change in the different Romance languages.

Laboratory:
The researcher will be a member of the EA 4509 STIH, which develops research
in the fields of language and text history, language sciences, and
computational linguistics.

Main Activities:
- Prospecting to gather appropriate textual resources for major Romance areas
(Gallo-, Italo-, Ibero-Romance)
- Definition of metadata common to the different languages (external variation
criteria), definition of bibliographic records and their management,
definition of common philological criteria
- Definition of criteria for the selection of texts common to the different
languages
- Description by means of metadata and selection of texts from the corpus
- Definition of the criteria for organizing the corpus in order to partition
the corpus into sub-corpora
- Definition of internal variation parameters for the different Romance
varieties
- Resolution of legal issues, in particular for published texts, so that the
corpus can be in open access in the long term
- Supervision of the standardization operations of the selected text resources

Requirements:
- PhD in Linguistics or Philology
- Interest in history & digital philology
- Expertise in philology, knowledge of medieval and preclassical French, or a
command of a Romance language other than French, and acquaintance with its
premodern stages
- Knowledge of standard computer software
- Willingness to learn standard corpus formats and conversion tools, in order
to be able to supervise standardization operations of text resources
- Excellent research skills
- Excellent communicative, social, and organizational skills

To apply, please submit:
- A copy of the doctoral degree
- A defense report, or, if this report is not available, a recommendation
letter
- A detailed CV, specifying the academic degrees, professional 
background, publications and conferences, as well as collective
responsibilities
- One or two recent publications



Application Deadline: 25-Sep-2019 
	  
Email Address for Applications: anna.carlier at sorbonne-universite.fr 
Contact Information:
	Prof. Anne Carlier 
	Email: anna.carlier at sorbonne-universite.fr 


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