29.2475, Support: English; French; Text/Corpus Linguistics, Contrastive Linguistics: PhD, University of Leuven

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Subject: 29.2475, Support:  English; French; Text/Corpus Linguistics, Contrastive Linguistics: PhD, University of Leuven

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Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2018 11:05:33
From: Kristin Davidse [kristin.davidse at kuleuven.be]
Subject: English; French; Text/Corpus Linguistics, Contrastive Linguistics: PhD, University of Leuven, Belgium

 Institution/Organization: University of Leuven 
Department: Linguistics 

Level: PhD 

Duties: Research,Teaching,Project Work
 
Specialty Areas: Text/Corpus Linguistics 
Contrastive Linguistics 
Required Language(s): English (eng)
                      French (fra) 

Description:

Applications are invited for a fully funded four-year PhD fellowship in
descriptive and contrastive linguistics (English-French) starting October or
November 2018 at the Department of Linguistics of the University of Leuven.

The PhD is part of a larger collaborative project entitled ''Beyond the
clause: Encoding and inference in clause combining'', funded by the Research
Council of the University of Leuven. The team coordinating the project
consists of Bert Cornillie, Kristin Davidse, Elwys De Stefani and
Jean-Christophe Verstraete. The supervisors of this PhD are Kristin Davidse
and Karen Lahousse (University of Leuven) and Gerard O’Grady (University of
Cardiff).

The aim of this doctoral project is to compare clefts and their monoclausal
counterparts (so-called “reduced clefts”) in English and French. The
literature on clefts has tended to focus on the relation with their declefted
alternate, often viewing different introducers such as ''it’s''/''c’est'',
''there’s''/''il y a'' or ''I’ve''/''j’ai'' as largely devoid of meaning. The
starting hypothesis of this project is that it is actually clefts and simple
specificational clauses (with corresponding introducers) that most resemble
each other. The project is designed in terms of the contrasts cleft vs.
reduced cleft and English vs. French. The phenomena to be analysed include
morphosyntax, semantics-pragmatics, prosody, information structure and
discourse functions. More information about the project can be requested by
e-mail.

Applicants are expected to have the following qualifications and attitudes:
- An MA in linguistics (or related disciplines), with academic distinction;
- Expertise and (near-)native competence in English and French; 
- Willingness to undertake instrumental study of prosody;
- A good background in the domains of linguistics relevant to the topic;
- Strong analytical skills and the motivation to pursue descriptively
innovative work in linguistics;
- A cooperative attitude and the capacity to actively participate in the
project activities (e.g. data sessions) and in events of the research units
involved in the project (including their seminar series);
- The ability to present research results at international conferences, and to
publish in peer-reviewed journals.

Motivated candidates meeting these criteria are invited to apply online
according to the instructions given at the Application Link below and to
include: 
- A cover letter,
- A CV,
- The names of up to three referees,
- A sample piece of academic writing. 

The deadline for applications is 1 July 2018.
Interviews will be held with shortlisted candidates on 9-10 July (in person or
online for overseas applicants). A decision will be communicated by mid-July.

The fellow will receive a salary of approximately 2000 EUR/month (after taxes)
for a period of four years and all regular provisions for PhD fellows at the
University of Leuven. In addition, s/he will be allocated office space and a
laptop, and receive funding for research activities such as attending
conferences abroad and organising workshops and conferences in Leuven or
elsewhere.
The successful candidate may be asked to provide (limited) assistance with
teaching, student supervision and data management. S/he will join a dynamic
research team (faculty members, postdoctoral fellows and PhD students). 

For more information, you can contact the coordinator of this subproject,
Kristin Davidse (see contact information below).
 

Application Deadline: 01-Jul-2018 

Web Address for Applications: http://www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jobsite/jobs/54675461 

Contact Information: 
	Kristin Davidse 
	kristin.davidse at kuleuven.be 
	Phone:+32 16 32 48 11  


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