[parislinguists] 2 postes de chercheur: structure argumentale, ancien francais, moyen anglais (Mannheim/Stuttgart, Allemagne)

[Achim Stein achim.stein@ling.uni-stuttgart.de [parislinguists]]

2 post-doc positions: argument structure, Middle English, Old French

We invite applications for two post-doc positions (100%) in the
project "Borrowing of Argument Structure in Contact Situations
(BASICS): The Case of Medieval English under French influence", funded
for three years by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG).

The candidates will contribute to theoretical and empirical research
on the argument structure of verbs borrowed from Old French into
Middle English. They will work in Mannheim and Stuttgart respectively
(40 min. distance by train). The positions should be filled as soon as
possible, and before July 1st 2015. Salary is based on the German TV-L
E13 scale.

Candidates must have a Ph.D. in linguistics, a good knowledge of the
syntax and semantics of argument structure and corpus-based linguistic
analysis. Experience with syntactically annotated corpora and
acquaintance with theories of language contact is an
advantage. Knowledge of German is an advantage, but not mandatory.

Position #1, in Mannheim, will work on Middle English (verb lexicon,
lemmatisation, extraction and analysis, classification etc.).

Position #2, in Stuttgart, will work on French (corpus-based analysis
of Old French verbs) and is responsible for the technical
infrastructure (management of corpora and lexical resources, storage
of the results, production of sustainable formats).  For this
position, technical skills are required (corpus tools, XML,
programming or scripting languages, Unix-like OS).

Please send applications by email to both PIs: Prof. Carola Trips
(ctrips at rumms.uni-mannheim.de) and Prof. Achim Stein
(achim.stein at ling.uni-stuttgart.de) until March 31st, 2015.
Applications must be sent in PDF format and include a CV, a list of
publications, the names of two referees, the PhD thesis and up to two
other publications (or links for download) and explicit statements
about foreign language competences (including Old French and Middle
English) and, for position #2, computational skills.

The Universities of Mannheim and Stuttgart are equal opportunity
employers.  Applications of female researchers are strongly
encouraged. Severely challenged persons will be given preference in
case of equal qualifications.
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