36.1786, Jobs: Gallo-Italian, Gallo-Romance, Ibero-Romance; English, French, Italian, Spanish; Historical Linguistics, Text/Corpus Linguistics: Doctoral Researcher on "Experimental replication of historical reanalysis processes" (EXREAN), 75% employment, Freie Universität Berlin, Department Philosophy and Humanities

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Subject: 36.1786, Jobs: Gallo-Italian, Gallo-Romance, Ibero-Romance; English, French, Italian, Spanish; Historical Linguistics, Text/Corpus Linguistics: Doctoral Researcher on "Experimental replication of historical reanalysis processes" (EXREAN), 75% employment, Freie Universität Berlin, Department Philosophy and Humanities

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Date: 06-Jun-2025
From: Freie Universität Berlin, Prof. Dr. Malte Rosemeyer [k.kosmas at fu-berlin.de]
Subject: Gallo-Italian, Gallo-Romance, Ibero-Romance; English, French, Italian, Spanish; Historical Linguistics, Text/Corpus Linguistics: Doctoral Researcher on "Experimental replication of historical reanalysis processes" (EXREAN), 75% employment, Freie Universität Berlin, Department Philosophy and Humanities


Job Location: Berlin, Germany
Web Address:
https://www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/we05/index.html
Job Title: Doctoral Researcher on "Experimental replication of
historical reanalysis processes" (EXREAN), 75% employment
Job Rank: Researcher, Scientist, Other

Specialty Areas: Historical Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics

Specialty Language(s): English (eng)
                       French (fra)
                       Italian (ita)
                       Spanish (spa)
                       Gallo-Italian
                       Gallo-Romance
                       Ibero-Romance

Description:
The Institute of Romance Philology at the Department of Philosophy and
Humanities of the Free University of Berlin is currently seeking to
fill a Doctoral Researcher Position (m/f/d) in the ERC-funded research
project "Experimental replication of historical reanalysis processes"
(EXREAN), starting as soon as possible. This is a fixed-term position
until March 31, 2029. Salary is determined following the salary scale
E 13 according to German TVL (75%).
EXREAN investigates reanalysis, the process by which speakers assign a
new meaning to a superficially unchanged element, in Romance languages
(French, Italian, Spanish). Reanalysis presents several methodological
difficulties for researchers in the field of historical linguistics.
Evidence of language change is often determined by comparing language
use over time across different historical texts. Reanalysis, however,
is a cognitive process and its existence is thus very difficult to
prove using written texts. Analyzing language usage in historical
texts can only provide limited information about the conditions under
which reanalysis takes place.
The EXREAN project is the first of its kind to systematically examine
reanalysis in a laboratory setting. It brings together and integrates
insights from historical linguistics, psycholinguistics, and social
psychology. In particular, it investigates the linguistic and social
factors necessary for reanalysis to occur. For more information,
please visit
https://www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/en/v/exrean/index.html
(de/en)
Your tasks
 - You will conduct research investigating grammaticalization in one
or more Romance languages, with the aim of obtaining a PhD
 - You will collaborate with the researchers in the EXREAN project
 - You will help with administrative tasks in the EXREAN project
(dissemination, experiment design etc.)
Formal requirements:
 - You have earned a Master degree in Romance linguistics or a related
field.
Your ideal profile:
 - Excellent knowledge of modern linguistic theory with a focus on
historical linguistics
 - Excellent knowledge of grammatical and pragmatic theories
 - Excellent knowledge of corpus linguistic methods and experience in
this area
 - Excellent knowledge of one or more Romance languages (linguistic
description and practical language skills)
 - Openness to conducting or learning about relevant experimental
research
 - Basic statistical analysis skills in R or openness to learning
about appropriate statistical analyses
Further information is available from Prof. Dr. Malte Rosemeyer
(malte.rosemeyer at fu-berlin.de/ +49 30 838 60570).
Additional information
Applications must be sent electronically by email to Dr. Konstantinos
Kosmas: k.kosmas at fu-berlin.de, using the identifier ERC-PhD-Ros. The
application should minimally include
 - a proposal (1 page) for your PhD project about grammaticalization
in one or more Romance languages in the context of the EXREAN project
 - a CV
 - copies of all relevant degree certificates
Please send all documents as a single PDF.
Application deadline: June 24, 2025.
By submitting an online application, you as the applicant agree that
your data will be processed and stored electronically. We would like
to point out that Freie Universität Berlin cannot guarantee the
security of transmitted personal data if your application is sent
electronically without protection.

Application Deadline: 24-Jun-2025
Mailing Address for Applications:
        Habelschwerdter Allee 45
        D-14195 Berlin
        Germany
        Germany
Email Address for Applications: malte.rosemeyer at fu-berlin.de
Web Address for Applications:
https://www.fu-berlin.de/universitaet/beruf-karriere/jobs/wiss/16_fb-philosophie-und-geisteswissenschaften/PG-WiMi-EXREAN-_Praedoc_.html
Contact Information:
        Prof. Malte Rosemeyer
        Email: malte.rosemeyer at fu-berlin.de



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