35.2609, Support: Linguistic Theories, Pragmatics, Semantics, Syntax: PhD, CLT - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

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Subject: 35.2609, Support: Linguistic Theories, Pragmatics, Semantics, Syntax: PhD, CLT - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

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Date: 25-Sep-2024
From: Susagna Tubau [Susagna.Tubau at uab.cat]
Subject: Linguistic Theories, Pragmatics, Semantics, Syntax: PhD, CLT - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona


Institution/Organization: CLT - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Department: Filologia Catalana - Centre de Lingüística Teòrica
Web Address: http://filcat.uab.cat/clt/

Level: PhD

Specialty Areas: Linguistic Theories; Pragmatics; Semantics; Syntax

Description:

The research group of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona on
"Expletivity and Expressive Meaning" (PID2023-150347NB-I00) invites
applications for a four-year predoctoral fellowship of the program
“Contratos Predoctorales para la Formación de Doctores”, funded by the
Spanish Government. The central topic of this research will be to
investigate which functional categories are predicted to be expletive
in natural languages according to the hypothesis that, despite making
no semantic contribution to linguistic meaning, they convey expressive
meanings beyond grammar. Therefore, this project pursues an important
theoretical contribution in connection to what can be considered an
expletive category in Universal Grammar, grounded on the minimalist
program on Generative Grammar, on formal semantics and on a Semantic
Commitment model of the syntax-pragmatics interface. We aim to cover
both synchronic and diachronic studies, which will foster our
knowledge of what is a good candidate for an expletive category, and
what are the potential changes that a linguistic item may have to
undergo to change into an expletive item. The present project also has
an experimental perspective by introducing elicitation work and corpus
work. We will collect data in spoken and written modalities of natural
languages by using a variety of psycholinguistic methods to
investigate whether the presence of different types of expletives
affects the processing of linguistic sequences. We also aim to
understand the extent to which expletive items are optional and
redundant both during comprehension and production.

The predoctoral fellow will become a member of the above mentioned
project, at the Centre de Lingüística Teòrica
(http://filcat.uab.cat/clt/), where (s)he will be hosted. (S)he will
also enroll in the Cognitive Science and Language interuniversitary
PhD program at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona  (http://www.uab.
cat/web/postgraduate/phds/all-phd-programmes/general-information/cogni
tive-science-and-language-1345467765430.html?param2=1345674110692).

Application Deadline: 14-Oct-2024

Mailing Address for Applications:
        Attn: Applicants should submit the documentation specified in
the position call
(https://tauler.seu.cat/pagDetall.do?idEdicte=520319&idens=11) through
the following link:

https://seleccio.uab.cat/

Applicants external to the UAB community must first register to obtain
a username and a password and then log in using the External User
button. Once logged in, applicants must click on "CONVOCATÒRIA D’AJUTS
PER A CONTRACTES PREDOCTORALS PER A LA FORMACIÓ DE DOCTORS 2024" and
fill in all the required fields.

All the details of the application process, the requirements of the
candidates, and the conditions of the scholarship can be consulted in
the call
(https://tauler.seu.cat/pagDetall.do?idEdicte=520319&idens=11).
Web Address for Applications: https://seleccio.uab.cat

Contact Information:
Xavier Villalba - Xavier.Villalba at uab.cat
Susagna Tubau - Susagna.Tubau at uab.cat



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