21 April: fyi -- Irish English, Germany

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student / Junior Researcher position at the Collaborative Research
Center on Multilingualism. The position will be open from 1 July 2008
for a term of three years (pending funding endorsement). Salary will
be ranked according to the German E13 TVL scale (half-time).

The position will be in the research project H5 "Hiberno-English:
Variation and Universals in Contact-Induced Language Change". It will
involve work on the maintenance and enhancement of a corpus and
database of historical Irish English texts, coupled with research on
grammatical properties of Irish English dialects under a typological
and contact-related perspective.

Applicants must have completed a Masters degree or equivalent in
(English) linguistics and should preferably have some experience with
corpus-based research methods and/or a background in language
typology, syntax, dialectology or contact linguistics.

Application Deadline: 10-May-2008
Mailing Address for Applications:
Prof Peter Siemund
Universitaet Hamburg, Institut fuer Anglistik und Amerikanistik
Von-Melle-Park 6
Hamburg 20146
Germany
Contact Information:
Dr Lukas Pietsch
Email: lukas.pietschuni-hamburg.de
Phone: +49 (0)40 42838-6463

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