The Labex EFL (Empirical Foundations of Linguistics, Paris, https://www.labex-efl.fr/) is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher in General Linguistics.
Employment type: Full-time (net salary of about 2180 EUR)
Starting date: between 01/10/2021 and 01/04/2022 (negotiable)
Duration: 12 or 24 months (depending on the project)
Application deadline: June 18, 2021 (24h CET)
The position is attached to the research strand « Typology and Dynamics of Linguistic Systems (Strand 3) » of the Labex EFL.
Applications (in English or French) are invited for one of the three topics listed below. For the job description, required skills, and contacts for more information, please follow the individual links.
1. The areal dynamics of ideophones and/or interjections (24 months)
2. Corpus-based analysis of discourse-related morphosyntactic phenomena in an underdescribed language (12 months)
3. Documentation, description and analysis of Gallo-Romanic speakers of the Crescent (12 months)
The application file must be sent in a single email by June 18, 2021 to
to the address indicated in the description of the individual project that is applied for
The file must contain the following elements:
a letter of motivation, indicating the research operation for which you are applying
a description of the personal research project to be carried out during the contract (max. 4000 characters, spaces included)
a cv including a list of publications, highlighting the three most important ones
the link to a website where your publications can be consulted; alternatively, 3 representative publications in pdf format
2 letters of support
The interviews of the preselected candidates will take place on July 2nd, 2021.
Contact for questions concerning the application procedure: katharina.haude_AT_cnrs.fr (in case of technical problems: christel.preterre_AT_sorbonne-nouvelle.fr)