Project C6 „ Information Management as a Factor for Syntactic Variation in the History of German” (Principal investigators: Augustin Speyer and Stefanie Dipper) is inviting applications for a postdoctoral researcher position (E13 TV- L, duration of employment: June 30, 2026, 100 % of standard working time).
The tasks of the researcher include:
- the analysis of word order variation in German (e.g. serialization of objects relative to each other and relative to adjuncts) in historical and modern texts, especially taking information structure and surprisal into account,
- the production and analysis of information density profiles in order to investigate syntactic changes,
- the production and analysis of a corpus of variants, consisting of systematic changes of linguistic parameters to natural texts, in order to test information structural and information theoretical hypotheses,
- cooperation with other projects in the CRC using experimental methods,
- supervision and guidance of student research assistants and coordination of project related tasks within the research team.
More information can be found here:
https://www.uni-saarland.de/fileadmin/upload/verwaltung/stellen/Wissenschaftler/W2548.pdf