Job opportunity

[Jürgen M. Meisel]

Job opportunities at the University of Hamburg, Research Center on
Multilingualism (immediate vacancy)

1 post-doctoral researcher or 2 post-graduate researchers

in a research project on "Simultaneous and Successive Acquisition
of Bilingualism" (Principal investigator: J. M. Meisel). This
project investigates similarities and differences in grammatical
development between bilingual first language acquisition, monolingual
first language acquisition, and adult second language acquisition.
It is one of 13 projects of the Collaborative Research Center on
Multilingualism funded by the DFG (Deutsche Forschungsge-meinschaft,
German Research Foundation) established at the University of Hamburg
in 1999.

All positions are available immediately and will extend until at
least June 30, 2005, the end of the current funding period. They
can be further extended for a total of six years. The salary of
the post-doctoral researcher corresponds to that of a lecturer in
German universities (BAT II a); the weekly work load amounts to
38,5 hours. The post-graduate researchers must hold an M.A. or
equivalent. He or she will receive approximately half of the
BAT II a salary for a work load of 19,25 hours per week and will
be expected to complete a doctoral dissertation on a topic related
to the theme of the research project. Research results obtained
during the work on this project may be included in the dissertation.

The University of Hamburg wishes to increase the number of women
among their academic staff and therefore encourages women to apply.
In accordance with Hamburg law, female candidates will be given
priority in case of equal qualifications with male applicants.

The successful candidate is expected to work either with the
Portuguese-German or the Basque-Spanish corpus, possibly also
with the French-German corpus collected by this research team.
Requirements therefore include a good knowledge of Portuguese,
or Basque and Spanish; knowledge of German or French would be
an asset. Further requirements are a good knowledge of syntactic
theory (Principles and Parameters Theory and/or the Minimalist
Program) and experience with language acquisition research. Also
desirable would be experience with corpus analysis and/or computer
skills. The post-doctoral candidate will be expected to co-direct
this research group together with J.M. Meisel.

Handicapped applicants will be given priority over other candidates,
in case of equal qualifications.

Send application (including CV, list of publications, names of two
referees) by October 4th, 2002 to Prof. J. M. Meisel, University of
Hamburg, Sonderforschungsbereich 538: Mehrsprachigkeit, Max Brauer-
Allee 60, D-22765 Hamburg; for further inquiries contact J.M. Meisel
at jmm at uni-hamburg.de or visit our homepage at
http://www.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/SFB538/