Assistant professor (post-doctoral researcher) within the OPUS project Collectives and singulatives across languages at the Faculty of Languages, Literatures and Cultures funded by the National Science Centre (Poland)

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Assistant professor (post-doctoral researcher) within the OPUS project Collectives and singulatives across languages at the Faculty of Languages, Literatures and Cultures funded by the National Science Centre (Poland)

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Offer DescriptionUniversity of Wrocław invites applications for the position of assistant professor (post-doctoral researcher) within the OPUS project Collectives and singulatives across languages at the Faculty of Languages, Literatures and Cultures funded by the National Science Centre (Poland)No 135.2024.NCN.CBKE.WN.AH of 13.12.2024Institute/Department: SEI: Centre for Corpus and Experimental Research on Slavic languages “Slavicus”, Faculty of Languages, Literatures and CulturesPosition: assistant professor (post-doc)Type of position: researchResearch area/discipline: linguisticsVacancies/positions: 2Type of contract: full time, employment contractApplication deadline: 31.01.2025Expected contest results: 28.02.2025Envisaged job starting date: May 2025Period of employment: 42 monthsRemuneration (total gross salary before tax including health and social insurance costs etc.): 140 000 PLN per annumApplications are invited from those who fulfil the statutory requirements specified in the Higher Education Act from 20th July 2018 (Dz. U. z 2018 r., poz. 1668) and the statutes of the University of Wroclaw.General informationProject title:Collectives and singulatives across languagesProject description: This project aims for a theoretically guided cross-linguistic investigation of collective and singulative expressions in natural language. Specifically, we will attempt to provide novel evidence for the role of collectives and singulatives in grammar by exploring their form and meaning across languages. The project will explore the following empirical domains: (i) the morphology and semantics of collectives and singulatives, (ii) different functions of collectives and singulatives and (iii) interactions between collectives and singulatives and other morphosyntactic and semantic categories. It will seek to identify universal properties that would justify decomposing the meaning of collectives and singulatives into primitive semantic components whose various configurations would account for their various functions. The expected outcome of the project will be a contribution to the general linguistic debate on the role of collectives and singulatives in grammar. The project aims to combine Nanosyntax, i.e., a realizational post-syntactic model of morphology based on late insertion, with explicit compositional semantics, which will be grounded in mereotopology, i.e., a formal theory of parts and wholes that captures both the part-whole relation and spatial configurations of entities. In terms of empirical methodology, the project will utilize the Terraling database, which is a cutting-edge digital resource for cross-linguistic data elicitation. From a typological perspective, the project will focus mainly on Slavic (with an emphasis on East Slavic and especially Ukrainian), Germanic, Celtic, Romance, Semitic and Nilo-Saharan.Detailed information on the project can be obtained from the PI, dr Marcin Wągiel, e-mail address:Formal requirements: * The candidate (i) should have the doctoral degree awarded by a different institution than the one where the employment and/or (ii) was employed as a postdoctoral researcher for at least 10 months at another institution outside Poland.

• The candidate should have the doctoral degree awarded not earlier than 7 years before submitting the application.
• During the period of employment in the project the candidate cannot receive remuneration from another employer under an employment contract in Poland or abroad.

Required qualifications: * Having a PhD in linguistics (with a preferred focus in the area of morphology and/or morphosyntax or with a preferred focus in the area of semantics).

• Knowledge of research methods in morphology and/or morphosyntax from a formal-linguistic perspective or knowledge of research methods in semantics from a formal-linguistic perspective.
• Documented experience in cross-linguistic research.
• An excellent (well-documented) publication record and presentations of research results at international conferences. Publications in prestigious international journals will be preferred.
• Proficiency in English allowing for fluent communication in academic activities (including conference and meeting participation) and research papers publications.
• Experience in working in an international environment, international research contacts, the ability to work individually and in a team, the ability to manage many tasks and to meet deadlines.

Additionally, the Committee will take the following assets into account: * Knowledge of morphological theories based on late insertion, in particular the theory of Nanosyntax, or knowledge of semantic theories based on part-whole structures, in particular mereology and/or mereotopology.

• Experience in employing typological databases such as Terraling in cross-linguistic research.
• Experience in research on linguistic phenomena related to individuation, quantification, collectivity etc.
• Knowledge or experience in research on Slavic, Romance, Celtic, Semitic or Nilo-Saharan languages.

Scope of research tasks: * Collaborating with the PI and other team members in the process of developing a cross-linguistic database in Terraling dedicated to collectives and singulatives. Collecting linguistic data and conducting empirical research (including elicitation procedures with native speakers).

• Analyzing linguistic data and collaborating with the entire team in consolidating the results of the analysis of formal and meaning properties of collectives and singulatives in natural languages.
• Developing formal morphological and morphosyntactic or semantic and morphosemantic accounts of the observed linguistic patterns, formulating hypotheses and testing them based on typological data.
• Publishing articles in highly valued international journals and presenting research results at international conferences.
• Performing other tasks related to the project instructed by the PI.

Scope of organizational tasks: * Helping in organizing project meeting and other events.

• Helping in creating and editing the project website and in other activities popularizing project activities and outcomes.
• Helping in managing administrative tasks related to the project.
• Editorial work.
• Performing other tasks instructed by the PI.

Required documents * Personal questionnaire for the person applying for employment (download
). * Curriculum vitae in English including among others information about conference presentations, participation in research projects and different research-related awards and achievements as well as organizational academic achievements.

• Photocopy of the diploma confirming obtaining the doctoral degree; or a certification of the prospect of obtaining the doctoral degree before the start of employment in the project (no later than 30.04.2025).
• Declaration that in the event of winning the competition, the University of Wrocław will be the primary place of work (download

). * Declaration regarding the discipline in which the candidate will conduct research, and in the case of persons conducting research in more than one discipline: the percentage of their involvement in each of these disciplines (download
). * Self-presentation (cover letter) including information about scientific, organizational and other achievements.

• List of the candidate’s publications for a period not longer than 10 years.
• Brief research statement in the context of the project.
• Electronic versions of the two most important publications that the candidate considers representative of his or her scientific achievements or an explanation of the lack of them.
• Names of at least two scholars ready to send references.
• Declaration in connection with Article 113 of the Law on Higher Education and Science (download

). * Application for employment addressed to His Magnificence the Rector.If you provide us with data voluntarily in your application other than what is necessary for you to participate in the recruitment procedure, we ask for your consent to their processing, which may read:– in the case of ordinary data: ‘I consent to the processing of my personal data contained in (e.g. CV, cover letter or other attached documents) by the University of Wroclaw in the recruitment process for the position…’– for special categories of data: ‘I consent to the processing of the special categories of my data referred to in Article 9(1) of the GDPR contained in (e.g. CV, motivation letter or other attached documents) by the University of Wroclaw in the recruitment process for the position…”All submitted documents should be in English.All submitted documents must be signed.Documents should be sent only in electronic form to the following address: , entering the subject of the mail: “assistant professor (post-doc).135.NCN.CBKE.WN.AH”.Additional information * The University of Wrocław reserves the right to contact only selected candidates.

• Selected candidates may be invited for an interview.
• The University of Wrocław reserves the right to close the competition without selecting a candidate.
• The University of Wrocław reserves the right to annul the competition.
• The University of Wrocław does not provide housing.

Information clause for persons participating in the recruitment process:Where to apply E-mailpraca@uwr.edu.plRequirementsResearch Field Language sciences Education Level PhD or equivalentLanguages ENGLISH Level ExcellentInternal Application form(s) neededDeclaration – Article 113_1.pdfEnglish(208.29 KB – PDF)PERSONAL-DATA-FORM-FOR-EMPLOYMENT-APPLICANT_eng_1.pdfEnglish(464.65 KB – PDF)Scientific-discipline-declaration-UWr_eng_1.pdfEnglish(253.62 KB – PDF)Workplace-statement-UWr_eng_1.pdfEnglish(255.57 KB – PDF)Additional InformationWork Location(s)Number of offers available 1 Company/Institute University of Wrocław Country Poland City Wrocław Postal Code 50-137 Street pl. Uniwersytecki 1 GeofieldContact CityWrocław WebsiteStreetpl. Uniwersytecki 1 Postal Code50-137 E-Mailpraca@uwr.edu.plSTATUS: EXPIREDShare this page

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