Postdoc: Cross-Linguistic Negation & Typology

University of Amsterdam (UvA) via AcademicTransfer; Netherlands; On-site; EUR 41,000 - 64,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

8% holiday allowance

8.3% end-of-year allowance

Job summary

University of Amsterdam (UvA) via AcademicTransfer seeks an experienced linguist for a postdoctoral position in a multi-methods project on negation across languages.

You will join an international team of (psycho)linguists and cognitive scientists to study early vs late negation, contribute to typological databases, and collaborate on field-based experiments in Papua, South America, and sub-Saharan Africa.

Qualifications

• PhD in a relevant field: (morpho-syntactic/semantic) typology, cross-linguistic psycholinguistics.
• Experience with structure of non-WEIRD languages, in particular languages of South-America, Papua, and/or sub-Saharan Africa.
• Experience with qualitative and quantitative approaches to cross-linguistic variation.
• Demonstrable affinity with interdisciplinary and (field-based) experimental approaches.
• A cooperative attitude and excellent communicative skills.
• Good command of (academic) English.
• Optional: working knowledge of Spanish.

Responsibilities

• Design and conduct qualitative and quantitative typological research on the typology of (early/late) negation and its structural correlates, in collaboration with one of the PIs and another part-time (20%) postdoctoral researcher.
• Collaborate with the rest of the team (another PI, PhD candidate, and external partner) in an interdisciplinary project, including (field-based) psycholinguistic experiments.
• Co-authoring at least three papers and compiling a typological database.
• Co-organizing and contributing to a summer school and a workshop.

Skills

Communicative skills

English proficiency

Collaborative attitude

Spanish (optional)

Education

PhD in linguistics/typology/cross-linguistic psycholinguistics

Job description

University of Amsterdam (UvA) via AcademicTransfer seeks an experienced linguist for a postdoctoral position in a multi-methods project on negation across languages.

You will join an international team of (psycho)linguists and cognitive scientists to study early vs late negation, contribute to typological databases, and collaborate on field-based experiments in Papua, South America, and sub-Saharan Africa.