The doctoral position advertised belongs to project B03 “The Prosody of Pronouns, Prepositions, and Prefixes in West Germanic Languages”. The aims of the project are twofold: (i) To examine prosodic reflexes in medieval manuscripts with a focus on function words and (ii) to investigate whether there are comparable effects in similar structures in modern West Germanic languages. The project will thus combine work on historical manuscripts with production experiments and the advertised position will have a particular focus on prepositions/preposition stranding/r-stranding.
Your Responsibilities
- Corpus work (with synchronic speech corpora and medieval manuscripts)
- Design and execution of experimental studies
- Theory building
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Summary
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Benefits
- The opportunity to do a PhD within the collaborative Research Centre 'Silence, Noise and Signal in Language'
- A friendly, diverse, and supportive research team and interdisciplinary research environment
- Collaborating researchers at doctoral, postdoctoral and professorial levels
- Excellent career and equal opportunity coaching
Requirements
- Completed or near-completed MA
- Documented experience studying formal syntax and phonology
- Documented experience with experimental methods in phonetics and/or phonology
- Interest in historical linguistics and the Germanic languages
- English language skills (at least C1 CEFR, including the written component)
- It is desirable that the candidate speaks German or has experience working with different Germanic varieties
Application Documents
- Applications should contain:
- a short motivation letter
- an academic CV
- copies of all previous degrees, including detailed transcripts of records
- the names and email addresses of two academic referees
- a writing sample. Incomplete applications will not be considered.
Application Deadline
March 1, 2026How To Apply
For more information, kindly visit the University of Konstanz website.
