31.2501, Jobs: General Linguistics; Semantics: Post Doc, ZAS

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Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2020 15:53:13
From: Uli Sauerland [sauerland at leibniz-zas.de]
Subject: General Linguistics; Semantics: Post Doc, ZAS, Berlin, Germany

 
University or Organization: ZAS 
Department: Semantics-Pragmatics
Job Location: Berlin, Germany 
Web Address: http://www.leibniz-zas.de
Job Title: Two-Year PostDoc in ERC Project LeibnizDream
Job Rank: Post Doc

Specialty Areas: General Linguistics; Semantics 


Description:

The Leibniz-Center General Linguistics (ZAS, www.leibniz-zas.de) invites
applications for a two-year full-time post-doctoral research position in the
ERC research project LeibnizDream (www.leibnizdream.eu), Generator group, PI
Uli Sauerland starting January 1st, 2021 or soon thereafter. The regulations
of German limited term contract law apply. For applicants who have not worked
at ZAS before the contract duration would be for 24 months. Pay is at the E13
level of the German TVöD payscale. Applications for less than full-time hours
will be considered.

Requirements:
- Strong expertise in semantics
- Completed Ph.D. by the time of appointment

Desired Assets:
- Cross-linguistic semantics and fieldwork
- Language acquisition
- Syntax/semantics interface and morpho-semantics
- Experimental methods and statistics
- Teaching competence including for instructional videos
- Tech skills for collaborative, open science and computational methods
- Proven team-work skills

Duties:
You work in different small teams with experts on language acquistion and
morphology to design and evaluate cross-linguistic acquisition studies to test
the Meaning First view of grammar the project is based on. The comparative
experiments are carried out across up to 50 different languages in
collaboration with partners across the globe following the specification of
the project grant. You lead one such study and contribute to up to three
others as the semanticist. We target six different areas of
morpho-syntax/semantics, 1) the expression of causation and agency, and 2) of
motion events, 3) the binary connectives, 4) negative concepts such as
exclusion, antonyms, and negation, 5) quantificational concepts including
genericity and distributivity, and 6) dependencies most frequently analyzed as
variable binding (wh-questions, relative clauses, degree clauses). 

The project aims for cultural diversity and gender balance of its staff. The
project furthermore seeks to implement the principles of open science. ZAS is
an equal opportunity employer.

Applications must be submitted via electronic mail and include the following
four items (1, 2 and 3 in PDF format): 
1) A letter of intent specifying research experience and plans;
2) The curriculum vitae including a complete list of publications;
3) Electronic copies of up to three representative publications; and
4) The names and email addresses of at least two scholars to be contacted for
letters of recommendation. Interested researchers wishing for secure
communication with PGP can contact us for the necessary encryption key.



Application Deadline: 06-Sep-2020 
	  
Email Address for Applications: leibnizdream at leibniz-zas.de 
Contact Information:
	Project LeibnizDream 
	Email: leibnizdream at leibniz-zas.de 


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