Part-time Postdoc in Linguistics, Nov. 2006

The Center for Language and Cognition Groningen (CLCG) announces the following positions:

The position will be filled in the project "Mutual Comprehensibility of Language Varieties in the Lowlands: Atttitudinal and Linguistic Determinants", a collaborative project with the University of Leuven and the Radboud University, Nijmegen, funded by the Flemish-Dutch committee (VNC) of Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO):

• Comprehensibility of Language Varieties

The Center for Language and Cognition Groningen (CLCG) is a research institute within the Faculty of Arts of the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. It embraces all the linguistic research in the faculty. A considerable number of the researchers participate in the Center for Behavioral and Cognitive Neurosciences (BCN), and in the Landelijke Onderzoekschool Taalwetenschap (LOT). Within the CLCG there are six research groups: Syntax/Semantics, Discourse and Communication, Language Variation and Change, Computational Linguistics, Neurolinguistics, and Language and Literacy Development over the Life Span. There are graduate students working in all of these groups.

• a PhD degree in Linguistics or a related field such as Computer Science or Artificial Inteligence
• preferably research experience in the relevant field
• able to work independently
• interest in interdisciplinary research
• excellent record of PhD study and publication
• willing to learn Dutch
• see specific projects for additional desiderata, differing per project

Please include in your application letter remarks about how this position fits in your career goals and how you hope to contribute scientifically. In total we would like to receive:

• a letter of application (see above)
• an A4 or letter-size copy of your diploma together with a list of grades (transcript)
• a list of publications (if any)
• the names and e-mail addresses of two referees

If you are interested in applying, please send the materials above before the 7th of Jan 2007 to:

Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
Personnel and Organization Department
P.O. Box 72
9700 AB Groningen
The Netherlands
or
E-mail: vmp at bureau.rug.nl

Please note on the envelope and in your letter that you are applying for a postdoc position, vacancy number 206233 in your letter.

See the individual project descriptions for contact persons regarding the project work. Prof. dr. ir. J. Nerbonne (j.nerbonne at rug.nl) will be pleased to answer your general questions. More details on the projects and on CLCG are to be found on the CLCG-website: www.rug.nl/let/onderzoek/onderzoekinstituten/clcg/.