37.231, Support: West Germanic; General Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Phonetics, Phonology, Text/Corpus Linguistics: PhD, University of Konstanz, Germany

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Date: 16-Jan-2026
From: Tina Bögel / George Walkden [Tina.Boegel at uni-konstanz.de]
Subject: West Germanic; General Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Phonetics, Phonology, Text/Corpus Linguistics: PhD, University of Konstanz, Germany


Institution/Organization: University of Konstanz, Germany
Web Address:
https://stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/f4251ab416eefd0e67d637c65045ed3f2d7fbeaf0

Level: PhD

Duties: Research, Project Work

Specialty Areas: General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics;
Phonetics; Phonology; Text/Corpus Linguistics
Required Language(s): West Germanic

Description:

Doctoral Position in Linguistics (part-time 65%, E13 TV-L) starting on
April 1st, 2026 or soon thereafter. The position is available until
the end of 2029.
Reference no.: 2026/021.
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 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/). 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 doctoral position advertised belongs to project B03 “The Prosody
of Pronouns, Prepositions, and Prefixes in West Germanic Languages”.
The aims of the project are twofold: (i) To examine prosodic reflexes
in medieval manuscripts with a focus on function words and (ii) to
investigate whether there are comparable effects in similar structures
in modern West Germanic languages. The project will thus combine work
on historical manuscripts with production experiments and the
advertised position will have a particular focus on
prepositions/preposition stranding/r-stranding.
Your responsibilities:
- Corpus work (with synchronic speech corpora and medieval
manuscripts)
- Design and execution of experimental studies
- theory building
Your competencies:
- Completed or near-completed MA
- Documented experience studying formal syntax and phonology
- Documented experience with experimental methods in phonetics and/or
phonology
- Interest in historical linguistics and the Germanic languages
- English language skilss (at least C1 CEFR, including the written
component)
- It is desirable that the candidate speaks German or has experience
working with different Germanic varieties
We offer:
- The opportunity to do a PhD within the collaborative Research Centre
'Silence, Noise and Signal in Language'
- A friendly, diverse, and supportive research team and
interdisciplinary research environment
- Collaborating researchers at doctoral, postdoctoral and professorial
levels
- Excellent career and equal opportunity coaching
Applications should contain:
- a short motivation letter
- an academic CV
- copies of all previous degrees, including detailed transcripts of
records
- the names and email addresses of two academic referees
- a writing sample
Questions can be directed to Prof. George Walkden and Dr. Tina Bögel
via e-mail: george.walkden at uni-konstanz.de and
tina.boegel at uni-konstanz.de.
We look forward to receiving your application until the 1st of March
2026 via our Online Application Portal.

Application Deadline: 01-Mar-2026

Web Address for Applications:
https://stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/f4251ab416eefd0e67d637c65045ed3f2d7fbeaf0




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