33.3887, Support: Historical Linguistics; Typology: PhD, University of Zurich, Switzerland

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Subject: 33.3887, Support: Historical Linguistics; Typology: PhD, University of Zurich, Switzerland

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From: Lena Zipp [lena.zipp at uzh.ch]
Subject: Historical Linguistics; Typology: PhD, University of Zurich


Institution/Organization: University of Zurich
Department: Department of Comparative Language Science
Web Address: https://www.comparativelinguistics.uzh.ch/en/CorTyp.html

Level: PhD

Duties: Research

Specialty Areas: Historical Linguistics; Typology

Description:

The Department of Comparative Language Science of the University of
Zurich is inviting applications for a 4-year PhD researcher position
associated with the Swiss National Science Foundation-funded research
project 'Reference production and the evolution of agreement', to
commence in April 2023. The project is to investigate reference
production across diverse languages through corpus-based quantitative
methods with the goal of discerning functional, structural and other
factors impacting the use of person forms. In doing so, the project
seeks to identify factors underlying the emergence of person agreement
that have for a long time been related to increased use of overt
person forms at an early stage of the grammaticalisation process.
While the project will seek to include a wide range of typologically
diverse languages, Iranian and Oceanic languages form a special focus
of interest.
The Department of Comparative Language Science at the University of
Zurich plays an important role in the activities of the centre for the
Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution (ISLE)
(https://www.isle.uzh.ch/de.html) and the National Centre of
Competence in Research (NCCR) Evolving Language
(https://evolvinglanguage.ch/), and fosters a vibrant research
environment that facilitates interdisciplinary collaboration.

The doctoral researcher will divide their workload between
project-related tasks, including involvement in data processing and
analysis, and their research towards the degree of PhD in linguistics.
The topic of the PhD thesis (or cumulative work equivalent to a
thesis) shall be determined upon commencement of the candidature
following discussion with the project leader Stefan Schnell and it
should relate to the goals of the project. Within these
specifications, the PhD candidate will be free to develop their topic
in line with their personal academic and intellectual interests.
Generally, the thesis topic can either be of a wider typological or a
more areal nature, focusing in the latter case either on Iranian or
Oceanic languages.

The successful candidate will hold a Master's degree (or equivalent,
e.g. Bachelor's degree with Honors and above-average evaluation) in
linguistics or a closely related field (as relevant to the project)
and have a strong background in descriptive-comparative linguistics.
The ideal candidate will also have experience with corpus linguistic
work, in particular with small spoken corpora, and languages other
than Western European languages, including in particular languages
from the two focus areas.

Starting date: 01 April 2023 or as soon as possible thereafter.

Application Deadline: 16-Jan-2023

Contact Information:
Dr. Stefan Schnell
stefan.schnell at uzh.ch



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