26.1675, Jobs: English; Historical Linguistics; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics: Post Doc, University of Antwerp

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Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2015 14:30:20
From: Frank Brisard [frank.brisard at uantwerpen.be]
Subject: English; Historical Linguistics; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics: Post Doc, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

 
University or Organization: University of Antwerp 
Department: Linguistics
Job Location: Antwerp, Belgium 
Web Address: https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/
Job Title: Post-Doctoral researcher
Job Rank: Post Doc

Specialty Areas: Historical Linguistics; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Required Language(s): English (eng)

Description:

The Department of Linguistics at University of Antwerp is welcoming
applications for the following position: post-doctoral researcher (100%) in
the area of  English historical sociolinguistics

Duties and Responsibilities

- You will carry out research related to the ERC starting grant ‘Mind-Bending
Grammars: The dynamics of correlated multiple grammatical changes in Early
Modern English writers’
(https://www.uantwerpen.be/nl/projecten/mind-bending-grammars/, PI Peter
Petré). The central topic of this project is how much syntactic change is
possible in adult individuals.
- Your responsibilities include: 
 - Assisting in preparing the corpus of 17th-18th-century individuals;
 - Charting a social network of these individuals;
 - Carrying out corpus-based research on the grammaticalisation of grow and
get (grow weak, obsolete grow a lawyer) in these individuals;
 - Sharing thoughts with project team members (incl. co-supervision) on their
case studies and the interaction of social and internal-cognitive dynamics;
 - Disseminating the project’s results both professionally and for a wider
audience.
- You provide limited teaching assistance in the department of linguistics.

Requirements

- You hold a doctorate degree (PhD) in linguistics;
- You are quality-oriented, conscientious, creative and cooperative;
- You are an expert in sociolinguistics, preferably from an English historical
perspective;
- You have experience with corpus-based research;
- A functional-cognitive or constructionist background is an asset;

We offer an appointment for 3 years, starting 1 September 2015, with a
competitive salary (gross monthly salary ranges from 3.896,31 euro – 6.074,02
euro), in a dynamic team on a prestigious research project financed by the
European Research Council.

For a full description of the job conditions, including a link to the online
application form, see the application website below.



Application Deadline: 15-May-2015 
	  
Web Address for Applications: https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/jobs/vacancies/ap/2015bapflwex128/ 
Contact Information:
	Frank Brisard 
	Email: frank.brisard at uantwerpen.be 
	Phone: +32 (0)3 265 42 69 


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