9 May: fyi -- phd funding, Belgium
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The Research Unit "Functional Linguistics Leuven" of the Catholic
University of Leuven invites applications for a Post-doc position (3
years) or a PhD position (4 years) within the research program
'Grammaticalization and (inter)subjectification' (GRAMIS), funded by
the Belgian national research programme 'Interuniversity Attraction
Poles' (IAP VI). The preferred starting date for either position is
September 1, 2007.
Description of the project:
The project aims to contribute to current research on processes of
grammaticalization (in the structural domain) and
(inter)subjectification (in the semantic domain) in language change.
The project brings together linguistic research groups at the
universities of Antwerp, Leuven, Ghent, Louvain-la-Neuve, Hannover,
and the Department of Cultural Anthropology at the Royal Museum of
Central Africa in Brussels.
Within the context of this project, the successful applicant will
investigate how various types of clause combining in the history of
English reflect common assumptions about grammaticalization and how
they interact with other mechanisms of change, and analogy in
particular.
Requirements for the post-doc position:
Candidates must hold a PhD in the field of English linguistics, with a
primary specialisation or strong interest in diachronic linguistics.
They should have experience of corpus linguistics, and ideally, have
already published in the area of grammaticalization and/or English
historical linguistics. Furthermore, the successful applicant should
not have held a position at a Belgian university in the two years
preceding the application; nor should they have obtained PhD degree at
a Belgian university.
Requirements for the PhD-position
Candidates must have a Masters degree or equivalent in English
linguistics and have shown an interest (through their course work) for
English diachronic linguistics, or show willingness to learn methods
of diachronic (corpus-based) research. The successful applicant is
expected to continue their training within their area of specialization.
We especially welcome candidates who share the FLL research group's
interest in approaching language from a usage-based perspective and in
solid empirical analysis informed by cognitive and/or functional views
on language.
Applications including a letter of motivation, a curriculum vitae,
copies of exam results, a statement of research interests, and copies
of any relevant publications can be sent to the following email address:
hubert dot cuyckens at arts dot kuleuven dot be
The application deadline is June 15, 2007. Further information about
the post and/or a detailed description of the research project can
also be obtained from this email address.
Postal address:
Hubert Cuyckens
Dept of Linguistics
University of Leuven
Blijde Inkomststraat 21
B-3000 Leuven, Belgium
http://wwwling.arts.kuleuven.ac.be/fll/hcuyckens/
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