35.3176, Support: Chinese, Mandarin, English, Vietnamese; Pragmatics, Semantics, Syntax: PhD, University of Stuttgart

[The LINGUIST List]

LINGUIST List: Vol-35-3176. Mon Nov 11 2024. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 35.3176, Support: Chinese, Mandarin, English, Vietnamese; Pragmatics, Semantics, Syntax: PhD, University of Stuttgart

Moderator: Steven Moran (linguist at linguistlist.org)
Managing Editor: Justin Fuller
Team: Helen Aristar-Dry, Steven Franks, Joel Jenkins, Daniel Swanson, Erin Steitz
Jobs: jobs at linguistlist.org | Conferences: callconf at linguistlist.org | Pubs: pubs at linguistlist.org

Homepage: http://linguistlist.org

Editor for this issue: Justin Fuller <justin at linguistlist.org>

================================================================


Date: 11-Nov-2024
From: Daniel Hole [holedan at gmail.com]
Subject: Chinese, Mandarin, English, Vietnamese; Pragmatics, Semantics, Syntax: PhD, University of Stuttgart


Institution/Organization: University of Stuttgart
Department: Institute of linguistics

Level: PhD

Specialty Areas: Pragmatics; Semantics; Syntax; generative grammar
Required Language(s): Chinese, Mandarin (cmn)
                      English (eng)
                      Vietnamese (vie)

Description:

The DFG-project “Scalarity at the Syntax-Semantics Interface” (SYSSI),
recently awarded to Prof. Daniel Hole and Dr. Alexander Wimmer
(University of Stuttgart/Germany), is looking for a PhD student (65%,
salary level E-13 of the public sector pay scale in Germany). The
successful candidate, to be co-advised by the principal investigator
and the project’s postdoctoral researcher, will work on a
project-related topic, present their work at international
conferences, and help with organizational matters, including the
workshops we plan to host during the runtime of the project, which for
the time being is limited to 3 years. A solid background in syntax,
semantics and/or pragmatics is expected. Empirical expertise (corpus
search, experimental analysis, data evaluation, fieldwork elicitation
techniques) will be considered an asset. In case of an equally high
level of competence, a female candidate will be given priority.

The project aims to shed more light on the syntax and semantics of
scalarity, a notion that figures prominently in a wide range of
linguistic works on very diverse languages. We take this pervasiveness
in linguistic theory to be paralleled by one in human cognition.
Scalarity has been conventionalized in various ways, giving rise to a
diversity of subphenomena in natural language. The work we will
conduct is broadly defined by, but not limited to, scalar particles
like ‘even’ and ‘only’ across languages and their appearance in
context. The crosslinguistic perspective we take mainly includes, but
also exceeds, contrasts and similarities between Chinese, English and
German (with occasional excursions to Vietnamese), allowing us to
cover an unprecedented breadth of – often novel – data simultaneously
and develop crosslinguistically valid, though parsimonious, analyses.

To apply for this position, please send an email to Prof. Daniel Hole
(holedan at gmail.com) and Dr. Alexander Wimmer
(alexanderwimmer2012 at gmail.com) including, in a single PDF-file:

- a letter of motivation
- a CV
- copies of relevant (degree) certificates
- a sample paper.

For any inquiries, don’t hesitate to get in touch with us:
- Prof. Daniel Hole (holedan at gmail.com)
- Dr. Alexander Wimmer (alexanderwimmer2012 at gmail.com)

This job offer remains open until filled.

Mailing Address for Applications:
        Attn: Prof. Dr. Daniel Hole/ILG
Universität Stuttgart
Keplerstr. 17
70174 Stuttgart
Germany
Email Address for Applications: holedan at gmail.com

Contact Information:
Prof. Dr. Daniel Hole/ILG
Universität Stuttgart
Keplerstr. 17
70174 Stuttgart
Germany



------------------------------------------------------------------------------

********************** LINGUIST List Support ***********************
Please consider donating to the Linguist List to support the student editors:

https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=87C2AXTVC4PP8

LINGUIST List is supported by the following publishers:

Bloomsbury Publishing http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/

Brill http://www.brill.com

Cambridge University Press http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics

Cascadilla Press http://www.cascadilla.com/

De Gruyter Mouton https://cloud.newsletter.degruyter.com/mouton

Edinburgh University Press https://edinburghuniversitypress.com

Elsevier Ltd http://www.elsevier.com/linguistics

Equinox Publishing Ltd http://www.equinoxpub.com/

European Language Resources Association (ELRA) http://www.elra.info

John Benjamins http://www.benjamins.com/

Language Science Press http://langsci-press.org

Lincom GmbH https://lincom-shop.eu/

Multilingual Matters http://www.multilingual-matters.com/

Narr Francke Attempto Verlag GmbH + Co. KG http://www.narr.de/

Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT) http://www.lotpublications.nl/

Oxford University Press http://www.oup.com/us

Wiley http://www.wiley.com


----------------------------------------------------------
LINGUIST List: Vol-35-3176
----------------------------------------------------------