29.797, Jobs: Language Documentation; Morphology; Semantics; Syntax; Typology: Post Doc, University of Manchester

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Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 11:24:26
From: Andrew Koontz-Garboden [andrewkg at manchester.ac.uk]
Subject: Language Documentation; Morphology; Semantics; Syntax; Typology: Post Doc, University of Manchester, UK

 
University or Organization: University of Manchester 
Department: Linguistics & English Language
Job Location: Manchester, United Kingdom 
Job Title: Postdoctoral research associate
Job Rank: Post Doc

Specialty Areas: Language Documentation; Morphology; Semantics; Syntax; Typology 


Description:

The Department of Linguistics and English Language requires three postdoctoral
research associates to work on a five year project “The lexical semantics of
lexical categories” (PI, Andrew Koontz-Garboden) funded by the European
Research Council.   You will form part of a team whose goal is to elucidate
through the study of property concept lexemes (see Dixon 1982, Thompson 1989)
and constructions in which they appear, the meaning of nounhood, verbhood, and
adjectivehood. The project will do this through broad typological study and
detailed semantic and morphosyntactic fieldwork on individual languages (which
will be identified as part of the initial stage of the project).

In collaboration with the PI, you will undertake a broad typological study
extracting data from descriptive grammars with the goal of determining the
kinds of meanings that property concept words have when nouns, adjectives, and
verbs. On completion of the typological study, the team will examine the
results in the face of project hypotheses with a view to identifying
counterexamples. You will also undertake detailed fieldwork on languages
counterexemplifying the hypotheses, with the goal of better understanding
their behaviour.  All three postdoctoral research associates will work on the
typological study, carry out fieldwork, publish results, and carry out
organisational duties tied to the administration of the project.  Project
funds will cover expenses of associated fieldwork, conference presentations,
open access publication, and other costs tied to work on the project.

You will hold a PhD (or near completion) in linguistics or a cognate area and
have expertise in formal semantics and the syntax/semantics interface.
Experience (or proven potential) of high quality research is also an essential
requirement for this post. 

Applications to be made online; in addition to your application you should
upload in a single document your CV and a covering letter.

As an equal opportunities employer we welcome applicants from all sections of
the community regardless of gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation
and transgender status.  All appointments are made on merit.



Application Deadline: 19-Mar-2018 
	  
Web Address for Applications: https://www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/displayjob.aspx?jobid=14861 
Contact Information:
	Andrew Koontz-Garboden 
	Email: andrewkg at manchester.ac.uk 


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