[HPSG-L] postdoc Paris

[Anne Abeillé]

The Labex EFL (Empirical Foundations of Linguisitics, www.labex-efl.org/) recruits a postdoctoral researcher. It is a full time position for 12 months. Depending on the results, the position may be renewed for another 12 months.

Job location: Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle, Paris.

The position is provided by the strand « Experimental Grammar » of the Labex EFL project.
The postdoctoral fellow is expected to have knowledge of  theoretical syntax and semantics, as well as empirical methods: annotated corpora, experiments, and statistics. S/He is expected to design experiments for several languages. The lab has an experimental room, a lab assistant as well as experimental material (eyetracker, SMI glasses, portable EEG…)
The applicant will propose a research program inside one of the following workpackages:
·       ANA : Anaphor resolution (resp. Barbara Hemforth bhemforth at gmail.com)
: the project should have an empirical focus on anaphor resolution with a strong cross linguistic perspective. The anaphor can be an overt or null pronoun. A project on anaphoric expressions (comprehension or production) in a less studied language would be a plus.

PLU : Plurality and quantification (resp. Carmen Dobrovie Sorin carmen.sorin at linguist.univ-paris-diderot.fr) : the project should bear on the analysis of the mass/count distinction, plural and mass quantification from a crosslinguistic perspective :

- distributive operators and pluralization ;

- co-distributivity markers (e.g., binominal each/chacun in English and French, jeweils in German, numeral doubling in Hungarian, nga in Albanian, cîte in Romanian, etc.) 

- bare plurals and dependant plurals ;

- free choice items and pluralities ;

- morphological plural marking (on the verb or on the noun) and semantic plurality ;

- mass and plural quantification ;

- plural events, plural individuals and plural arguments.

Two or three experiences related to the theoretical project should be described and clearly planned by a detailed schedule.

REL : Processing, acquisition and typology of relative clauses (resp. Caterina Donati cdonati at linguist.univ-paris-diderot.fr) : the project should bear on one of the following topics:

-           internally headed reative clauses. Syntax and/or processing and/or acquisition

-           correlative clauses. Syntax and/or processing and/or acquisition

-           resumptive strategies of relativisation: experimental perspectives

-           reduced relative clauses. Syntax and/or processing and/or acquisition

-           pseudorelatives. Syntax and/or processing and/or acquisition

·       -           free relatives and matching phenomena: experimental perspectives
The applicant will have to demonstrate an exceptional research potential and contact the coordinator of the work package when writing her project. A good knowledge of French is an additional asset and the applicant must have defended his/her Phd by January 31st 2016. 
Prospective applicants should send:
·       - A curriculum vitae including publications
·      -  A research project (max 4 pages)
·       - Names of two referents (with email address)
·       - A website address where the publications can be downloaded.
Application deadline: October 1st 2015

Start of work: december 2015 or january 2016

Salary: 26.000 € net of taxes/year

Application reference: EFL-strand2

Responsible for applications: Anne Abeillé, LLF and Benoît Crabbé, Alpage 
Contacts for application: abeille_at_linguist.univ-paris-diderot.fr, benoit.crabbe_at_linguist.univ-paris-diderot.fr

You can find this offer directly on the EFL website here : http://www.labex-efl.org/?q=en/node/285