37.147, Support: Catalan, German, Hebrew, Modern Greek (1453-), Russian; Pragmatics, Semantics: PhD, University of Konstanz

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Date: 12-Jan-2026
From: Maribel Romero [maribel.romero at uni-konstanz.de]
Subject: Catalan, German, Hebrew, Modern Greek (1453-), Russian; Pragmatics, Semantics: PhD, University of Konstanz


Institution/Organization: University of Konstanz
Web Address:
https://stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/eb8c45632cac21245aacb95e46d59804d31e44fa0

Level: PhD

Duties: Research, Project Work

Specialty Areas: Pragmatics; Semantics
Required Language(s): Catalan (cat)
                      German (deu)
                      Hebrew (heb)
                      Modern Greek (1453-) (ell)
                      Russian (rus)

Description:

Two Doctoral Positions in Linguistics  (part-time 65 %, E 13 TV-L)
Reference no.: 2026/010. Two doctoral positions are available as of
April 1st, 2026. The positions are 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 investigates the role of silence and noise
in our capacity for perceiving, learning and producing linguistic
signals
(https://www.ling.uni-konstanz.de/sfb1760/about-us/scientific-aim/).
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.
The two doctoral positions advertised belong to the project B02
“Expletive negation”
(https://www.ling.uni-konstanz.de/sfb1760/research-projects/project-group-b/project-b02-expletive-negation/),
part of the SFB 1760. The project investigates expletive negation
(i.e., overt negation with seeming no negative import) from a
cross-environment and cross-linguistic perspective. The linguistic
environments to be examined include: (i) propositional attitudes like
fear and forbid; (ii) temporal operators like before and until, modal
operators like unless and other functors like almost; and (iii)
comparatives. For the period 2026-2029, the languages to be
investigated include: Catalan, German, Hebrew, Modern Greek and
Russian.
Your responsibilities:
 - Corpus work
 - Design of fieldwork questionnaires and data collection
 - Design and execution of experimental studies
 - Theory building
Your Competencies:
 - MA degree in linguistics (completed or in progress)
 - Background in Formal Semantics and Pragmatics
 - Some experience with data collection and/or experimental approaches
 - It is desirable that the candidate speaks one for the five
languages investigated in this period (Catalan, German, Hebrew, Modern
Greek, Russian) or some other language hosting expletive negation
We offer:
 - The opportunity to do a PhD within the Collaborative Research
Centre ‘Silence, Noise and Signal in Language’
 - An open, motivated research team and interdisciplinary research
environment
 - Collaborating researchers at doctoral, postdoctoral and
professorial levels
 - Excellent career and equal opportunity coaching
Questions can be directed to Prof. Maribel Romero via e-mail:
maribel.romero at uni-konstanz.de. We look forward to receiving your
application until 15 February 2026 via our Online Application Portal.
The search is open until the position is filled.

Application Deadline: 15-Feb-2026
Application Instructions:
Applications should contain:
(i) a short motivation letter
(ii) an academic CV
(iii) copies of all previous degrees, including detailed transcripts
of records, and
(iv) the names and email addresses of two academic referees.
Incomplete applications will not be considered.

Web Address for Applications:
https://stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/eb8c45632cac21245aacb95e46d59804d31e44fa0

Contact Information:
Maribel Romero



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