1 Postdoctoral Research position in the area of English historical sociolinguistics in Belgium | University of Antwerp

You will carry out research related to the ERC starting grant ‘Mind-Bending Grammars: The dynamics of correlated multiple grammatical changes in Early Modern English writers’. The central topic of this project is how much syntactic change is possible in adult individuals.

Your responsibilities include:

• assisting in preparing the corpus of 17th-18th-century individuals;
• charting a social network of these individuals;
• carrying out corpus-based research on the grammaticalisation of grow and get (grow weak, obsolete grow a lawyer) in these individuals;
• sharing thoughts with project team members (incl. co-supervision) on their case studies and the interaction of social and internal-cognitive dynamics;
• disseminating the project’s results both professionally and for a wider audience.
• You provide limited teaching assistance in the department of linguistics.

Profile and requirements

• You hold a doctorate degree (PhD) in linguistics;
• You are quality-oriented, conscientious, creative and cooperative;
• You are an expert in sociolinguistics, preferably from an English historical perspective;
• You have experience with corpus-based research;
• A functional-cognitive or constructionist background is an asset;
• The focus in your teaching corresponds to the educational vision of the university;
• Your academic qualities comply with the requirements stipulated in the university’s policy

We offer

• A position remunerated as doctorate assistant for a period of three years (non-renewable);
• The date of appointment will be 1 September 2015;
• A full time gross monthly salary ranging from 3.896,31 euro – 6.074,02 euro;
• Challenging work in a dynamic team of five passionate researchers on a prestigious research project financed by the European Research Council.