Faculty of Language, Literature and Humanities - CRC 1412

Job description:

• scientific service in research within the project “Slavic in a multilingual setting: Register and fused (hybrid) lects” (within DFG-CRC 1412 “Register”, principal investigators: Prof. R. Meyer and Prof. L. Szucsich)
• investigating the link between parameters of the situation and the use of standard, dialectal and multilingually mixed (“fused”) varieties in Slavic languages
• focus on linguistic situation in Ukraine (“Suržyk”)
• comparison with other instances of language mixing in Slavic languages (mainly Polish/Czech)
• empirical studies using corpus linguistic methods and innovative psycholinguistic methods (acceptability studies, Virtual Reality), independently and in cooperation with primary investigators
• Possibility of own scientific qualification (PhD)

Requirements:

• completed scientific university education (M.A. or equivalent) in Slavic Linguistics, General Linguistics or a related discipline
• excellent knowledge of Ukrainian and/or Russian and good knowledge of the respective other language
• good command of English (German not necessary)
• interest in comparative work on Ukrainian and Russian and open-mindedness towards further Slavic languages
• desirable: good knowledge in theoretical linguistics as well as experience with corpus linguistic and/or experimental work

Please send your application (including cover letter, CV, relevant certificates, M.A. thesis or a sample publication, statement of research interests), referencing the job id DR/106/24 to Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Sprach- und literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Institut für Slawistik und Hungarologie, Prof. Roland Meyer, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin or preferably in electronic form as a single PDF file to roland.meyer@hu-berlin.de and luka.szucsich@hu-berlin.de.

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