Applications Deadline: 12-Dec-2022
The Department of Linguistics at Ghent University opens a fully funded 4-year PhD position within the ERC-funded project CAUSALITY. The goal of the project is to investigate causes of language change and conservativity using formal theoretical modeling, artificial agent simulations, and empirical data from historical treebanks of three West Germanic languages: Dutch, English, and Low German. In addition to the theoretical objectives, the project aims at significantly enlarging an existing small treebank of historical Dutch.
Position Description:
– At least 90% of the assignment will be spent on academic research in preparation of a doctoral dissertation.
– The research area of the PhD project will cover historical changes in subject encoding (overt (pro)nominal arguments, verbal affixes) from the perspective of formal semantics and pragmatics and quantitative corpus-based modeling.
– In addition to theoretical research, the position involves an active participation in constructing a historical treebank of Dutch.
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