34.700, Support: Morphology: PhD, Universität Stuttgart, Germany

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Subject: 34.700, Support: Morphology: PhD, Universität Stuttgart, Germany

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From: Eleonore Brandner [eleonore.brandner at ling.uni-stuttgart.de]
Subject: Morphology: PhD, Universität Stuttgart

Institution/Organization: Universität Stuttgart
Department: Institut für Linguistik/Germanistik
Web Address: https://www.ling.uni-stuttgart.de/institut/ilg/

Level: PhD

Duties: Research

Specialty Areas: Morphology

Description:

The ANR-DFG Project IMMAGES (“Hosting a clause: Implications for the
matrix and its guests” https://cethis.univ-tours.fr/version-francaise/
projets-finances/fral-immages) invites application for a three-year
PhD positions starting on Sept. 1, 2023 to be hosted at Universität
Stuttgart, Institut für Linguistik/Germanistik (ILG)
(https://www.ling.uni-stuttgart.de/institut/ilg/), under the
supervision of apl. Prof. Dr. Eleonore Brandner.
Keywords: Germanic, Old High German, clausal embedding, verbal
decomposition, argument structure, syntax-morphology interface,
diachrony, corpus linguistics.

Contact Information eleonore.brandner at ling.uni-stuttgart.de

The goal of the project is to contribute to our understanding of
clausal complementation by focusing on the way clausal complements
(e.g., “(I think) that it is raining”) are inserted in the matrix
clause. This matter has been the subject of much research in the past
50 years because, compared to an NP object, the relationship of the
clause to the matrix predicate notoriously tends to be deviant both
semantically and syntactically. A number of hypotheses try to account
for these facts (ranging from giving up with the very concept of
complementation to salvaging it semantically and/or syntactically or
positing a pivot between the matrix predicate and the clause, whatever
its nature).  The project aims to put to the test the various ideas,
building on the history of languages, dialectological variation,
linguistic comparison, philosophical insights, starting with Basque,
French, German (and dialects of German), Greek, Hungarian.

The present position is  for the sub-project “‘Verbal de-composition
of clause embedding verbs” and its topic is the fine-grained argument
structure of clause-embedding verbs like say, believe, claim, etc.
especially with respect to the question whether the argument for which
they select is in fact a nominal and if yes how it is introduced and
what its semantic and syntactic properties are.  There is initial
evidence that these pivots occurred overtly in older stages of
German(ic) in form of demonstrative to a much higher degree than in
the contemporary languages. The aim is to gain (i) an empirical
overview and (ii) a theoretical account of these phenomena under a
diachronic perspective.

Payment: federal German pay scale TV-L E13, 65%.
Support will be provided for travel expenses

Candidates should have a strong background in formal syntax and
morphology. Experience with diachronic corpora is not a pre-requisite
– but will constitute a large part of the work. Acquaintance with Old
High German (or another Germanic language) is an advantage.
Prior knowledge of German is not required.

Supporting Documents:
 - Curriculum Vitae (CV);
 - Cover letter explaining the motivation, experience, research
interests of the applicant, elaborating on how these fit in with the
research goals of the project (1-2 pages);
 - The contact information for up to three referees (who may be
contacted at a later stage);
 - One or two writing samples (Master's thesis if completed).
All supporting documents for the application should be emailed
electronically as a single pdf file to
eleonore.brandner at ling.uni-stuttgart.de

Application Deadline: 27-Mar-2023

Contact Information:
Eleonore Brandner
eleonore.brandner at ling.uni-stuttgart.de

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