Postdoctoral Researcher

Fastened Time period Contract – 29 months.

Full Time – 35 Hours Per Week.

We’re on the lookout for a postdoctoral researcher for a full-time, fastened time period put up for 29 months from September 2024 to work as a part of the Edinburgh staff on the AHRC/DFG funded undertaking “The syntax of nominal copular clauses: theoretical and empirical views,” Principal Investigators: Prof. Caroline Heycock (Edinburgh); Prof. Jutta Hartmann (Bielefeld).

The Alternative: 

The main target of your analysis shall be on the interior construction of nominal predicates; we’re very focused on together with knowledge from languages apart from English, significantly these with classifier methods and/or missing particular articles. 

You’ll be conserving abreast of latest theoretical work on the syntax and semantics of nominals; gathering knowledge from the literature, from session with audio system of related languages, and from on-line experiments/questionnaires; creating analyses in collaboration and session with different members of the staff, and taking part absolutely within the work of dissemination by means of convention displays and publications. 

You’ll work primarily with the Edinburgh PI but in addition in shut session with the PI and postdoc in Bielefeld and in addition different members of the undertaking staff. 

The function shall be based mostly inside Dugald Stewart Constructing (Central Campus). Alternatives for dialogue on casual hybrid office preparations could be mentioned on the time of provide, nevertheless please be aware that some on campus working is required.

Your abilities and attributes for achievement: 

• PhD in Linguistics or a associated self-discipline (accomplished, or submitted and awaiting examination), with specialization in syntax; ideally additionally experience in semantics (Fascinating).
• Up-to-date information of areas of syntactic idea related to the undertaking goals, significantly the syntax of nominals.
• A monitor report of high-profile analysis outputs equivalent to journal publications or displays at worldwide conferences.
• Demonstrable expertise with gathering and analysing syntactic knowledge, ideally together with work on languages with nominal classifier methods and/or missing particular articles.
• Means to prioritise and to work each independently and inside a staff with minimal supervision, and to resolve issues as they come up.