APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTINGS
Within the framework of the PAI-project
“Grammaticalization and (Inter)Subjectification”
funded by the Belgian federal government, the
Centre for Text and Discourse Studies (CETIS)
from the University of Louvain (UCL,
Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium) invites applications
for one PhD position and one post-doc position.
The positions are available as of April 1st 2007
and not later than January 1st 2008. They will
continue for a period of 4 years for the PhD
position and a period of 3 years for the post-doc
position (with a possibility of extension, shorter periods are possible too).
Description of the project:
The project aims to contribute to current
research efforts dealing with (the interaction
between) the processes of grammaticalization (in
the structural domain) and
(inter)subjectification (in the semantic domain)
in language change. It will focus on three major issues:
1) The precise nature of the semantic
changes in subjectification and in
intersubjectification, and their relationship
with the structural developments in grammaticalization.
2) The teleology of the processes: are
grammaticalization and (inter)subjectification unidirectional or not?
3) The ‘scope’ of these processes: how do
grammaticalization and (inter)subjectification
relate to other mechanisms of language change, notably, to analogy?
In collaboration with research groups from the
universities of Antwerp, Leuven, Ghent, and
Hannover (Germany), and the Department of
Cultural Anthropology at the Royal Museum of
Central Africa, these foci will be implemented in
terms of work packages, dealing with different
semantic and/or grammatical domains in which
these issues can be raised and investigated from
different angles. The task of the group in
Louvain-la-Neuve is to work out the package on
discourse particles (together with colleagues
from Ghent and Hannover) (see work package
description on
http://www.fltr.ucl.ac.be/FLTR/GERM/lingne/Degand/workpackage-discourse.htm).
The specific research area concerns the
grammaticalization of Dutch and French discourse
particles (where possible, in contrast to other languages).
Essential requirements
Post-doc position
Candidates must hold a PhD in the field of
linguistics (Dutch and/or French), with a primary
specialisation in diachronic linguistics.
Applicants should have been awarded their
doctorate within the last six years. They should
have experience of corpus linguistics, and
ideally, have already published in the area of
grammaticalization and/or typological language
description. Expertise in the area of discourse
studies or willingness to gain such expertise is
also required. Good knowledge of Dutch and French
is an asset (with near-native command of one of the two languages)
PhD position
Candidates must have a Masters degree or
equivalent in Dutch and/or French linguistics,
and to have completed diachronically-oriented
courses in language description, or show
willingness to learn methods of diachronic
(corpus-based) research. The successful applicant
is expected to continue their training with
additional post-graduate courses in their area of
specialization. Good knowledge of Dutch and
French is an asset (with near-native command of one of the two languages).
For the two positions, we especially welcome
applications from candidates who share the
research group’s interest in approaching language
from a usage-based perspective with solid
empirical grounding in primary data, especially
approaches of a cognitive and/or functional nature.
Application
Applications including letter, curriculum vitae,
copies of any relevant publications, and two
academic references can be sent to the address below or by e-mail to:
liesbeth.degand@uclouvain.be
Address for Applications:
dr. Liesbeth Degand
CETIS
Université catholique de Louvain
Place B. Pascal 1
1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
Belgium
Application Deadline: 1-March-2007 (Open until filled)
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