34.2411, Support: Indo-European; Historical Linguistics, Morphology, Syntax, Text/Corpus Linguistics, Typology: PhD, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań

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Subject: 34.2411, Support: Indo-European; Historical Linguistics, Morphology, Syntax, Text/Corpus Linguistics, Typology: PhD, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań

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Date: 07-Aug-2023
From: Eystein Dahl [astrapie at amu.edu.pl]
Subject: Indo-European; Historical Linguistics, Morphology, Syntax, Text/Corpus Linguistics, Typology: PhD, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań


Institution/Organization: Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
Department: Faculty of Modern Languages and Literatures
Web Address: https://wn.amu.edu.pl/en

Level: PhD

Specialty Areas: Historical Linguistics; Morphology; Syntax;
Text/Corpus Linguistics; Typology
Required Language(s): Indo-European

Description:

Open call for a PhD position in the project 'Alignment, subjecthood,
and transitivity prominence in Indo-European' (ASTRAPIE).

The project is hosted by the Faculty of Modern Languages at the Adam
Mickiewicz University in Poznań and will be conducted by Dr. Habil.
Eystein Dahl (Principal Investigator) and Prof. Krzysztof Stroński
(Co-Investigator). The position is available as of October 1, 2022,
and is suitable for someone with a master-level education in
Indo-European linguistics or a related discipline (e.g., Slavic
studies, Baltic studies, general linguistics, etc.) and an interest in
linguistic typology with emphasis on morphosyntactic issues. Some
familiarity with corpus linguistics and/or quantitative methods is
desirable but not required.

The ASTRAPIE project investigates the diachronic interrelationship
between alignment, subjecthood, and transitivity prominence across the
Indo-European linguistic family. Alignment refers to the
morphosyntactic realization of core arguments. Subjecthood is a cover
term for the morphosyntactic properties of the argument referred to as
subject, which in this context is defined as the generalized
syntactically privileged argument. Transitivity prominence is
understood as the degree to which predicates in a language select the
pattern characteristic of core transitive verbs. The project has a
comparative-historical perspective, exploring whether and to what
extent changes in one of these grammatical domains have impact on the
others and whether they remain stable across and within genetically
related languages. It examines data from the oldest attested languages
of the different branches of Indo-European in synchronic and
diachronic/comparative-historical perspective. This involves a
three-tiered analysis of each language and a comparative-historical
analysis of the data gathered from the languages.

The goals of the project are the following:
 - To break down the alignment patterns in each of the languages in
the sample into fine-grained formal and functional variables that
enable precise analyses that can be compared across languages
 - To identify the full set of subject properties in each of the
languages under scrutiny
 - To establish the transitivity prominence in the lexicon of each
language
 - To explore the interaction between alignment, subjecthood, and
transitivity prominence in each language
 - To develop a comparative-historical analysis of the diachronic
relationship between these three domains

Data collection will involve systematic mining of grammars and
handbooks as well as exploration of primary texts, which will mainly
be based on available electronic resources.

The PhD student will be involved in the whole duration of the project
and contribute to its theoretical, methodological, and empirical
aspects along the lines specified above. He/she will be responsible
for data collection and evaluation in a subset of the languages in the
sample, in accordance with his/her philological background. Another
crucial task will be to contribute to the comparative explorations of
alignment patterns, subject properties, and transitivity prominence
across the languages in the sample. The PhD student will also
contribute to development of the project methodology and will be
required to disseminate the research results to the scholarly
community in conference presentations and publications.

Application process: the complete application in one PDF document
should be sent electronically to the email listed below.

Potential candidates are invited to contact the Principal Investigator
Dr. Habil. Eystein Dahl (astrapie at amu.edu.pl) for more information
about the project. The full job posting and a short project
description are available at the project website linked below.

Application Deadline: 02-Sep-2023

Web Address for Applications:
https://wordpress.com/page/eystdahl.wordpress.com/170
Email Address for Applications: astrapie at amu.edu.pl

Contact Information:
Eystein Dahl
astrapie at amu.edu.pl



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