31.1416, Support: Semantics: PhD Student, Heinrich Heine University

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Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2020 07:41:28
From: Hana Filip [hana.filip at gmail.com]
Subject: Semantics: PhD Student, Heinrich Heine University, Germany

 Institution/Organization: Heinrich Heine University 
Department: Linguistics 
Web Address: https://user.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de/~filip/ 

Level: PhD 

Duties: Research,Project Work
 
Specialty Areas: Semantics 
 

Description:

Funded PhD position in semantics at the Heinrich Heine University, Duesseldorf
(Germany)
Specialty Areas: Semantics and Pragmatics (Related Areas Include: Text/Corpus
Linguistics, Experimental Semantics, Computational Semantics, Philosophy of
Language and Mind)

Description:

The Department of Linguistics, Program in Semantics, at the Heinrich Heine
University in Duesseldorf (Germany), has one funded PhD position starting July
1, 2020 (the earliest date) until June 30, 2023 (with a possibility of an
extension). The funding is in accordance with the German public service salary
scale E13 TV-L, 65%.

Requirements:

The successful candidate will have an M.A. or a B.A. degree in linguistics (or
a related field) with a broad background in semantics and pragmatics.
Moreover, experience with computational modelling of linguistic data or
experience with empirical research (experimental, corpus-based) into
linguistic meaning is desirable, and some background in philosophy of language
and mind would also be advantageous.

The PhD position is funded by the DFG-grant awarded for the project
“Individuation of eventualities and abstract things”, PI Hana Filip, external
collaborators Jeff Pelletier and Scott Grimm. The DFG (Deutsche
Forschungsgemeinschaft--German Research Association) is the main research
funding agency in Germany. The Ph.D. student is expected to work closely with
a postdoctoral researcher, the P.I. and external collaborators.

The point of departure for this project is the prima facie parallelism between
the grammatical reflexes of countability of nominal and verbal predicates. The
main focus is on abstract nouns and verbal predicates, and specifically on the
ways in which entities in their denotation are identified and individuated.
The criteria of individuation for physical entities denoted by concrete nouns
rely on their distinctive relation to space and time. The individuation of
entities in the denotation of abstract nouns and verbal predicates is
considerably more mysterious, not the least because for some such entities the
relation to space and time is more complex or outright puzzling, while others
are taken as independent of space and time. The successful PhD candidate will
mainly contribute to the part of the project having to do with verbal
predicates, shaping it according to their background and interests.

Application documents:

- curriculum vitae;
- copy of an M.A. or a B.A. degree diploma;
- copies of degree transcripts;
- a letter of intent stating the nature of your interest in the project and
the expertise that you could contribute
- one or two representative writings;
- two academic letters of recommendation to be submitted directly by referees.

The Heinrich Heine University is an equal opportunity employer.

All the application documents (apart from the letters of recommendation)
should be submitted by email in a single PDF file to: hana.filip at gmail.com 

Email Address for Applications: hana.filip at gmail.com
 

Application Deadline: 20-May-2020 

Mailing Address for Applications:
	Attn: Hana Filip 
	Universitaetsstrasse 1 
	Duesseldorf 40225 
	Germany 
	
Contact Information: 
	Professor Hana Filip 
	hana.filip at gmail.com  


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