Call for Expressions of Interest –Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship

29 Apr 2024
Job Information

Organisation/Company

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Department

Centre de Lingüística Teòrica

Research Field

Language sciences » Linguistics

Researcher Profile

First Stage Researcher (R1)
Recognised Researcher (R2)

Country

Spain

Application Deadline

1 Jun 2024 - 23:59 (Europe/Madrid)

Type of Contract

Temporary

Job Status

Full-time

Offer Starting Date

1 Jan 2026

Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme?

H2020 / Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure?

No

Offer Description

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and the Centre de Lingüística Teòrica (CLT) look for outstanding researchers to apply for a Marie Skłodowska Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship (call HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF ). The candidate will be supervised by Xavier Villalba and collaborate with the research project PID2020-112801-GBI00 (https://sites.google.com/view/intercat2/ ) in the CLT.

 

Area of research

Semantics; Pragmatics; Syntax-Semantics Interface; Syntax-Pragmatics Interface; Information Structure

 

We welcome applications with an interest in the speaker’s understanding of natural languages; especially, why languages have expletive items, and whether their existence is correlated with expressive meanings, focusing on any of the following questions and related topics:

 

A. Expletiveness in syntax and semantics

(i) What is expletiveness in language?

(ii) How is expletiveness morphosyntactically analyzed and compositionally derived?

(iii) What are the semantic operations needed to compose the meaning of an expletive category at LF?

(iv) Does expletiveness show a parallel with other phenomena of polar sensitivity?

 

B. Expletiveness and grammatical categories

(i) Does the distinction between syntactic and semantic expletives correlate with specific grammatical categories?

(ii) Do natural languages show a tendency towards the same expletive categories, both synchronically and diachronically?

(iii) Do expletive categories correspond to high peripheral positions in the syntactic structure? (e.g., high negation vs. low negation)

(iv) Can the Jespersen's Cycle be extended to cover not only expletive negation but also other forms of expletive categories?

 

C. Expletiveness and expressivity

(i) Which meanings can be driven beyond grammar in association with an expletive category?

(ii) Do expletive categories contribute to Common Ground management or to Common Ground content?

(iii) How does the presence of expletive items influence production and comprehension?

(iv) What are the general processes involved in the acquisition of expletive categories?

 

Key dates

The MSCA-2024-PF call will open on 23rd April and close on 11th September 2024.

Deadline for submission of expressions of interest: 01/06/2024

Decision of pre-selection: 15/06/2024

Requirements

Research Field

Language sciences » Linguistics

Education Level

PhD or equivalent

Specific Requirements

• Hold a PhD in Linguistics or a related field, and a maximum of eight years full-time research experience after PhD. Years of experience outside research and career breaks (e.g. maternity leave) are not considered.
• Not having resided or carried out your main activity in Spain for more than 12 months in the 36 months immediately before the call deadline (11/09/2021 – 11/09/2024).

Research Field

Language sciences » Linguistics

Years of Research Experience

4 - 10

Additional Information
Benefits

UAB was the first university in Spain obtaining MSCA projects in the H2020 programme. Some of our strengths as Host Institution for a MSCA fellowship:

-In December 2014, the UAB was acknowledged with the distinction “HR Excellence in Research”. This logo reflects our commitment to continuously improve our human resources strategies in line with the European Charter for Researchers and the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers.

-UAB was ranked 62nd in linguistics in the QS World University Ranking (1st position in Spain, and 20th in Europe)

-Support for proposal preparation provided to candidates by the Grants office.

-Highly performing research facilities and laboratory equipment.

-Support to incoming researchers and their families when moving to UAB from abroad through the International support service , an Euraxess Contact Point.

Eligibility criteria

• Any nationality.
• Hold a PhD in Linguistics or a related field, and a maximum of eight years full-time research experience after PhD. Years of experience outside research and career breaks (e.g. maternity leave) are not considered.
• Not having resided or carried out your main activity in Spain for more than 12 months in the 36 months immediately before the call deadline (11/09/2021 – 11/09/2024).

Selection process

Selection process

We invite researchers to submit your application accompanied by:

• Your PhD certificate;
• A CV, including track record and selected list of publications (5 pages max);
• An abstract of the proposal (2 pages max, excluding references);
• A cover letter, including your preferred starting date (no later than 01/01/2026) (1 page).

Applications must be submitted in English. Please send the documents to [email protected]. The subject of the email must be “MSCA application– name and surname”.

Candidates will be informed of the results of the internal selection by 15/06/2024.Selected candidate/s will beinvited to develop the MSCA-2024-PF application with the support of Dr. Xavier Villalba and the UAB’s grants office.

Work Location(s)

Number of offers available

1

Company/Institute

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Country

Spain

State/Province

Barcelona

City

Cerdanyola del Vallès

Postal Code

08193

Geofield

Where to apply

E-mail

[email protected]

Contact

State/Province

Barcelona

City

Cerdanyola del Vallès

Website

http://www.uab.cat

Street

Dept. Filologia Catalana

Postal Code

08193

E-Mail

[email protected]

Phone

654119784

STATUS: EXPIRED