36.2007, Support: English, German; General Linguistics, Pragmatics, Psycholinguistics, Syntax: PhD, University of Tübingen, English Dept.

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Subject: 36.2007, Support: English, German; General Linguistics, Pragmatics, Psycholinguistics, Syntax: PhD, University of Tübingen, English Dept.

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Date: 30-Jun-2025
From: Sam Featherston [sam.featherston at uni-tuebingen.de]
Subject: English, German; General Linguistics, Pragmatics, Psycholinguistics, Syntax: PhD, University of Tübingen, English Dept.


Institution/Organization: University of Tübingen, English Dept.

Level: PhD

Duties: Research

Specialty Areas: General Linguistics; Pragmatics; Psycholinguistics;
Syntax
Required Language(s): English (eng)
                      German (deu)

Description:

PhD positions in Linguistics at the University of Tübingen
Two PhD positions are available in the DFB-funded Collaborative
Research Center (CRC) 1718 Common Ground: Cognition – Grammar –
Communication.
PhD researchers in empirical syntax and/or pragmatics
(m/f/d, E13 TV-L, 75%)
The positions are located at the University of Tübingen, Germany.
They begin on 1st October 2025 or as soon as possible afterwards, and
run until 30th June 2029.
The posts are within the sub-project B6 Syntax Interacts with Common
Ground: Non-Canonical Inversion Structures with project leaders Katrin
Axel-Tober (German Dept.), Sam Featherston, Susanne Winkler (English
Dept.). This project will investigate the conditions on and
interpretative features of exceptional inversion structures in English
such as ‘Into the room marched the bishop, a snarl on his face.’
Topics for doctorates could concern questions such:
 - what contextual factors (text genre, information structure, and
shared background knowledge) must come together to license such a
structure?
 - what is the syntactic structure of such examples?
 - what does the inverted version contribute to the interpretation
more than an uninverted version (‘The bishop marched into the room’)?
 - how do these structures relate to superficially similar-looking
German examples?
Theses will be jointly supervised by the project leaders and can be
within the fields of German Linguistics or English Linguistics, but
they are likely to have an empirical component.
The candidates should have finished their Masters degree in a related
field of Linguistics by the start date of the project, and they should
be enthusiastic about the work of the project. The project leaders
will guide the research, and offer frequent support, advice, and
consultation. The CRC offers an exceptionally rich research
environment with excellent opportunities to work together with many
other linguists on topics across the field. These posts therefore
offer the ideal entry point to an academic career in linguistics.
Applications will be processed from the closing date but if the
positions are not filled, further applications would be acceptable
after this date.

Application Deadline: 15-Jul-2025

Mailing Address for Applications:
        Germany
Email Address for Applications: sam.featherston at uni-tuebingen.de

Contact Information:
Sam Featherston



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