37.15, Support: Catalan; Language Acquisition, Morphology, Pragmatics, Semantics, Syntax: PhD, University of Konstanz

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Subject: 37.15, Support: Catalan; Language Acquisition, Morphology, Pragmatics, Semantics, Syntax: PhD, University of Konstanz

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Date: 02-Jan-2026
From: Theodoros Marinis [t.marinis at uni-konstanz.de]
Subject: Catalan; Language Acquisition, Morphology, Pragmatics, Semantics, Syntax: PhD, University of Konstanz


Institution/Organization: University of Konstanz
Web Address:
https://stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/8cd71077d9bf294e007ccb8a83e2fe6da068bf210

Level: PhD

Duties: Research, Project Work

Specialty Areas: Language Acquisition; Morphology; Pragmatics;
Semantics; Syntax
Required Language(s): Catalan (cat)

Description:

Doctoral Position in Linguistics – Language Acquisition of Catalan
(part-time 65 %, E 13 TV-L) Reference no.: 2025/285. The start date is
1st April 2026 or soon thereafter. The position is available until the
end of 2029.
The University of Konstanz is a dynamic and internationally successful
research university with approximately 10,000 students. The campus
university’s architecture promotes interdisciplinary cooperation and a
sense of community among researchers, lecturers and students. The
University of Konstanz has been continuously funded by the German
Excellence Strategy since 2006.
The newly granted SFB 1760 (https://www.ling.uni-konstanz.de/sfb1760/)
investigates the role of silence and noise in our capacity for
perceiving,learning and producing linguistic signals. The first phase
will run from April 2026 to December 2029 and encompasses a wide
variety of theoretical,experimental, computational and empirical
research within linguistics, in collaboration with projects from
computer science, computational social science, media studies and
sociology.
This doctoral position is part of project ‘C03: Acquisition of
Expletive Elements’. This project investigates the acquisition of
expletive definite articles and expletive negation in pre-school and
school-age Catalan, German and Greek monolingual children from a
cross-linguistic perspective using corpus and experimental data.
Corpus data from the CHILDES database will address the emergence of
expletive definite articles and expletive negation. Experimental data
will investigate the comprehension and production of expletive
definite articles and expletive negation. This PhD position will focus
mainly on Catalan and can also contribute to German.
Your responsibilities:
- Analysis of corpus data
- Design and implementation of comprehension and production
experiments
- Working towards a PhD -Contributing to the SFB by attending regular
meetings and conducting research on SFB topics
- Presenting research at national and international conferences
- Contributing to transfer activities at the Centre for
Multilingualism
Your competencies:
- Excellent MA/MSc degree in Language
Acquisition/Multilingualism/Linguistics/Speech & Language Therapy, or
related discipline
- Research interest in child language acquisition
- Some experience working with pre-school or school-age children
- Native or near native speaker of Catalan,very good proficiency in
English, and ideally also German
- Excellent organizational and interpersonal skills
- Knowledge of statistics is desirable
- Experience in child corpora and language acquisition experiments is
desirable
We offer:
- The opportunity to do a PhD within the SFB 1760 ‘Silence, Noise and
Signal in Language’
- An open, motivated research team and interdisciplinary research
environment
- Collaborating researchers at doctoral,postdoctoral and professorial
levels
- Research support by student assistants
- Excellent career and equal opportunity coaching
Questions can be directed to Prof. Dr. Theodoros Marinis via E-mail
t.marinis at uni-konstanz.de.
We look forward to receiving your application by 1 February 2026 via
our Online Application Portal.

Application Deadline: 01-Feb-2026

Web Address for Applications:
https://stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/8cd71077d9bf294e007ccb8a83e2fe6da068bf210

Contact Information:
Theodoros Marinis



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