Postdoc Research Fellowship in Linguistics 1326 views

University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway (UiT) invites applications for a Post-doctoral Research Fellowship within Linguistics (Cognitive Linguistics: Empirical Approaches to Russian) at the Department of Language and Culture. The position is affiliated with the CLEAR research group, Cognitive Linguistics: Empirical Approaches to Russian.

Duration: 3 years (fixed term)

Tasks and responsibilities:

• This position focuses on a theoretical model of language that is central to Cognitive Linguistics, namely Construction Grammar.
• Construction Grammar makes two fundamental claims that have redefined language: the construction (a form-meaning pairing, at any level of complexity), is the relevant unit of linguistic analysis, and a language is an aggregate network of constructions, also known as a “constructicon”.
• These bold claims have not yet been fully realized in terms of linguistic analysis: attempts to describe the entire constructicons of specific languages have only recently been launched, and the identification of family networks within a given constructicon is in its infancy.

Qualifications:

• Applicant must hold Norwegian PhD degree in Russian Linguistics or another relevant field or a corresponding foreign doctoral degree recognised as equivalent to a Norwegian PhD degree.
• Applicant must be native or near-native proficiency in Russian, as well as academic proficiency in English.
• Applicants will be given priority if he/she has background and/or publications in cognitive linguistics.
• Applicant must provide a project proposal with a progress plan for the project’s main activities (project completion is to be done within the period of employment).

Application:

• Apply online and must include:
• Letter of application
• Project description
• CV including a complete overview of education, supervised professional training and professional work
• Diplomas and references
• List of works and description of these
• The list of works shall contain the following information: author(s), the work’s title for articles: the journal’s name and volume, the first and last page of the article, year of publication for publications: publisher, printer, year of publication, number of pages
• Up to ten works that are central to the applicant’s academic production. The applicant’s PhD thesis should be submitted as one of these works.