31.1136, Support: Historical Ling; Lang Acquisition; Socioling; Syntax; Text/Corpus Ling: PhD Student, University of Konstanz

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Subject: 31.1136, Support: Historical Ling; Lang Acquisition; Socioling; Syntax; Text/Corpus Ling: PhD Student, University of Konstanz

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Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2020 04:34:27
From: George Walkden [george.walkden at uni-konstanz.de]
Subject: Historical Ling; Lang Acquisition; Socioling; Syntax; Text/Corpus Ling: PhD Student, University of Konstanz, Germany

 Institution/Organization: University of Konstanz 
Department: Linguistics 
Web Address: https://www.uni-konstanz.de 

Level: PhD 

Duties: Research,Project Work
 
Specialty Areas: Historical Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Sociolinguistics; Syntax; Text/Corpus Linguistics 
 

Description:

Three PhD positions are available on the ERC-funded project “Sociolinguistic
typology and responsive features in syntactic history” (STARFISH), led by
Prof. George Walkden in the Department of Linguistics at the University of
Konstanz.

The aim of the project is to find out whether adult second-language
acquisition can lead to changes in the syntax of a language in historical
time. In particular, we're interested in whether there are syntactic features
that are particularly favoured or disfavoured in languages historically
characterized by a high proportion of adult second-language acquirers
independently of what their first language is, and – if so – what these
“responsive” features are. The project takes as a starting point Peter
Trudgill's theory of sociolinguistic typology, in particular the idea that
different language contact scenarios favour different types of change. The
role of the project’s doctoral researchers is to investigate these ideas in
the domain of diachronic syntax using evidence from historical corpora. You
can read more about the project, its aims and its hypotheses at
https://www.ling.uni-konstanz.de/en/walkden/starfish/.
PhD candidates will use historical data to investigate the impact of adult
second language acquisition on syntactic change in one of the following areas:
case, grammatical gender, negation, or (null) subjects and agreement.
 

Application Deadline: 01-Jun-2020 

Web Address for Applications: https://stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/c64846f510aefeea2c3490e6ac64947d1992c2ca0 

Contact Information: 
	George Walkden 
	george.walkden at uni-konstanz.de  


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