23.5244, Jobs: Historical Linguistics; Syntax: Post Doc, University of York

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Subject: 23.5244, Jobs: Historical Linguistics; Syntax: Post Doc, University of York

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Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 14:54:54
From: Giuseppe Longobardi [giuseppe.longobardi at york.ac.uk]
Subject: Historical Linguistics; Syntax: Post Doc, University of York, York, United Kingdom

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University or Organization: University of York 
Job Location: York, United Kingdom 
Web Address: http://www.york.ac.uk/language/
Job Rank: Post Doc

Specialty Areas: Historical Linguistics; Syntax 


Description:

Applications are invited for 2 two-year (renewable) postdoctoral research
positions based in the Centre for Comparative and Historical Syntax, part of
the Department of Language and Linguistic Science at the University of York.
The positions form part of the ERC-funded project “Meeting Darwin’s last
challenge: toward a global tree of human languages and genes”, supervised by
Professor Giuseppe Longobardi. The project plans to build the first
phylogenetic trees of languages based on syntactic evidence and potentially
aiming to global scope, and to compare them to the molecular-genetic
representation of corresponding populations.

The project will apply a new comparative method, based entirely on grammatical
evidence and on recent parametric theories of syntactic diversity, to ensure
higher standards of testability/replicability and measure linguistic distances
between even remote populations. A team of linguists at York and one of
biologists in Italy will for the first time jointly select the populations
most significant from either perspective for language/gene sampling.

The post-doctoral research assistants will have good up-to-date knowledge of
formal syntactic theory, some basic understanding of the principles of
historical linguistic comparison, and strong interest for wide-range data
collection. A crucial aspect of the roles will be significant collaborative
work with the project PI and other team members. The appointees will have the
PhD in hand by March 2013 and will devote most of their working time to the
project, which at this stage will focus mainly on the nominal syntax of
languages from the five continents. Previous experience in data collection and
analysis, especially from non-European languages, is desirable though not
required. Some travel to meet with language consultants may be required.

Informal enquiries regarding the posts can be addressed to Prof. Giuseppe
Longobardi at the contact email address below.

Salary will be £29,541 per annum on grade 6 of the University’s salary scales.
The posts are full-time (37 hours per week) and are available from 1 March
2013, or as soon as possible thereafter, for a fixed term period of two years.
This will be renewable for another two years, subject to review during the
initial period of appointment.

Closing date: Tuesday, 15 January 2013.

Interview date: Tuesday, 5 February 2013.



Application Deadline: 15-Jan-2013 
	  
Web Address for Applications: http://tinyurl.com/llsprda 
Contact Information:
	Professor Giuseppe Longobardi 
	Email: giuseppe.longobardi at york.ac.uk 





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