Job announcements; Referentiality Project; University of Erfurt

[Jean-Christophe Verstraete]

(forwarded on behalf of Johannes Helmbrecht 
<Johannes.Helmbrecht at sprachlit.uni-regensburg.de>)

Dear ALT list members,

there are three jobs to be filled within the "Referentiality Project" 
funded by the Volkswagen Foundation. The goals of the "Referentiality 
Project" include a corpus-based typology of the cross-linguistic coding 
of referentiality (cf. the project website for further information). 
Principal investigator of this project is Christian Lehman (University 
of Erfurt). Two of the positions will be filled with typologists, the 
third position will be assigned to a corpus linguist with programming 
skills. Details are given below and on the Website of the project: 
http://www2.uni-erfurt.de/sprachwissenschaft/referentiality/home.php

Further information can be obtained by Prof. Dr. Christian Lehmann (by 
e-mail: christian.lehmann at uni-erfurt.de, or by phone: 0049/-(0)361/737-4201)

Please address your application, enclosing routine documentation (cv, 
copies of diplomas) and quoting the reference number, to

Seminar für Sprachwissenschaft
Philosphische Fakultät
Universität Erfurt
Postf. 90 02 21
99105 Erfurt

no later than 31/05/2012.

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Job offer #1

The Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Letters, University of Erfurt, 
has an opening, to be occupied by 01/08/2012, for a full-time research 
associate; salary level: 13 TV-L (grade 2); reference number: 33/2012.

Tasks
1. Independent corpus-based typological research in the project 
‘Referentiality’ 
(www2.uni-erfurt.de/sprachwissenschaft/referentiality/home.php), funded 
by the Volkswagen Stiftung in the DOBES program for three years.
2. Assistance in the edition of a collective volume on referentiality.

Work place is Erfurt.

Conditions of employment
• above-average PhD in linguistics, focus in general-comparative linguistics
• experience in grammatical and semantic analysis of Non-Indo-European 
languages
• excellent knowledge of English;
• Experience with corpus data and computational methods of their 
exploitation is requested.

Remarks
University of Erfurt strives for an enhancement of the proportion of 
women among scientific staff and encourages interested women to apply. 
Upon condition of equal aptitude, capability and specialized 
qualification, severely disabled applicants enjoy priority in employment.

Link to official German job announcement:
http://www.uni-erfurt.de/fileadmin/public-docs/Universitaet/Verwaltung/Personalabteilung/Stellenausschreibungen_2012/33_2012_WiMA_PhilFak.pdf

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Job offer #2
The Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Letters, University of Erfurt, 
has an opening, to be occupied by 01/08/2012, for a half-time research 
associate salary level: 13 TV-L (grade 1), 50%; reference number: 32/2012.

Tasks
1. Assistance in corpus-based typological research in the project 
‘Referentiality’ 
(www2.uni-erfurt.de/sprachwissenschaft/referentiality/home.php), funded 
by the Volkswagen Stiftung in the DOBES program for three years.
2. Project administration.

Work place is Erfurt.

Conditions of employment
• above-average M.A. in linguistics, focus in general linguistics
• experience in grammatical and semantic analysis of Non-Indo-European 
languages
• Good knowledge of English.

Remarks
The successful applicant will have the opportunity to complete a PhD on 
a topic relevant to the Referentiality Project.

University of Erfurt strives for an enhancement of the proportion of 
women among scientific staff and encourages interested women to apply. 
Upon condition of equal aptitude, capability and specialized 
qualification, severely disabled applicants enjoy priority in employment.

Link to official German job announcement:
http://www.uni-erfurt.de/fileadmin/public-docs/Universitaet/Verwaltung/Personalabteilung/Stellenausschreibungen_2012/33_2012_WiMA_PhilFak.pdf

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Job offer #3
The Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Letters, University of Erfurt, 
has an opening, to be occupied by 01/08/2012, for a half-time research 
associate; salary level: 13 TV-L (grade 1), 50%; reference number: 31/2012.

Tasks
1. Assistance in corpus-linguistic research in the project 
‘Referentiality’ 
(www2.uni-erfurt.de/sprachwissenschaft/referentiality/home.php), funded 
by the Volkswagen Stiftung in the DOBES program for three years.
2. Programming of software for the exploitation of corpora of diverse 
languages.

Work place is Erfurt.

Conditions of employment
• above-average M.A. in linguistics, focus in corpus or computer linguistics
• experience in linguistic programming, esp. corpora tagging
• good knowledge of English.

Remarks
The successful applicant will have the opportunity to complete a PhD on 
a topic relevant to the Referentiality Project.

University of Erfurt strives for an enhancement of the proportion of 
women among scientific staff and encourages interested women to apply. 
Upon condition of equal aptitude, capability and specialized 
qualification, severely disabled applicants enjoy priority in employment.

Link to official German job announcement:
http://www.uni-erfurt.de/fileadmin/public-docs/Universitaet/Verwaltung/Personalabteilung/Stellenausschreibungen_2012/33_2012_WiMA_PhilFak.pdf

Please forward these job offers to people who might be interested in.

Many thanks for your attention.
Johannes Helmbrecht