Offre d’emploi : Post-Doc syntaxe / sémantique, projet IMMAGES, Tours

Job Location: Centre-Val de Loire, France
Web Address: https://cethis.hypotheses.org/richard-faure
Job Title: Post Doc in syntax/semantics, IMMAGES project, France
Job Rank: Post Doc

Specialty Areas: Semantics; Syntax

Description:

The ANR-DFG Project IMMAGES (“Hosting a clause: Implications for the matrix and its guests” https://immages.hypotheses.org/, 2023-2027) invites applications for a 12-month post-doc position in semantics and/or syntax, starting in late Summer or early Fall 2025.

The goal of the project is to contribute to our understanding of clausal complementation by focusing on the way clausal complements (e.g., “(I think) that it is raining”) are inserted in the matrix clause. This matter has been the subject of much research in the past 50 years because, compared to an NP object, the relationship of the clause to the matrix predicate notoriously tends to be deviant both semantically and syntactically. A number of hypotheses try to account for these facts (ranging from giving up with the very concept of complementation to salvaging it semantically and/or syntactically or positing a pivot between the matrix predicate and the clause, whatever its nature). The project aims to put to the test the various ideas, building on the history of languages, dialectological variation, linguistic comparison, philosophical insights, starting with Basque, French, German (and dialects of German), Greek, Hungarian thereby concentrating on the various types of complementizers and their possible semantic contribution to the different types of embedded clauses (e.g., relative clauses vs. complement clauses). In order to find out correlations between these and further properties like factivity, a database will be built as part of the project.

Tasks
– The postdoctoral researcher will be in charge of coordinating the crosslinguistic database between the various researchers, ensuring that the data are collected and tagged in the same and compatible format and that they abide by the FAIR principles.
– In addition to that, s/he will conduct her/his own research in the frame of one or several of the work packages of the project, as described on the website.

The project is distributed over different sites in France and Germany and there will be intensive collaboration with the other members and partners of the project (https://immages.hypotheses.org/members). This position will be hosted at the Université de Tours and is attached to Pr. Richard Faure and the Lab. CeTHiS (https://cethis.hypotheses.org/richard-faure). Possible local collaborations can be developed with the morpho-phono and the pragmatics teams (https://lll.cnrs.fr/) or the psycholinguistics team (typical and atypical acquisition of phonology and syntax, https://ibrain.univ-tours.fr/english-version/research-topics/autism). Tours is in the south of Paris (one hour by train). It is a beautiful student city with a low cost of living.

Knowledge of French is not required.

Shortlisted candidates will be interviewed.

Payment: 2100€/months (net salary)
Support will be provided for travel expenses as well as a computer

Start date: Late Summer/Early Fall 2025 (negotiable)

Application Deadline: 25-Mar-2025
Email Address for Applications: rfaure@univ-tours.fr
Web Address for Applications: https://immages.hypotheses.org/job-offer-post-doc
Application Instructions:
Applications should be emailed electronically as a single PDF to rfaure@univ-tours.fr

Application requirements: The ideal candidate is expected to:
– have a PhD degree in linguistics by the end of the Academic year (August 2025);
– be familiar with the questions around clausal complementation or prove that s/he is in a position to address them;
willingness and ability to work both in collaboration and independently.

Supporting Documents:
– Curriculum Vitae (CV);
– Cover letter explaining the motivation, experience, research interests of the applicant, elaborating on her/his capacity of creating a database (about one page);
– Statement of the research that s/he would like to perform in the frame of IMMAGES (about 2 pages);
– The dissertation and another representative publication;
– The contact information for up to three referees (who may be contacted at a later stage).
Contact Information:
Pr. Richard Faure
Email: rfaure@univ-tours.fr