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Roman";mso-fareast-language:NL">The Department of Northern
European Studies at Humboldt University of Berlin has a vacancy
for a PhD researcher in Scandinavian historical linguistics,
which is to be filled as soon as possible. I would be most
grateful if you could forward this announcement to potentially
interested candidates!<br>
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Roman";mso-fareast-language:NL">The Department of Northern
European Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin is seeking to
appoint a a PhD researcher starting as soon as possible. The
post is part time (65%), for a fixed-term period of four years.<br>
The position is funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
(DFG), as part of the Collaborative Research Center
''Language-users‘ knowledge of of situational-functional
variation.'' The PhD researcher will be appointed in the
subproject ''Register emergence and register change in
Germanic'' with Prof. Dr. Karin Donhauser, Prof. Dr. Muriel
Norde and Dr. Lars-Erik Zeige as principal investigators. <br>
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Roman";mso-fareast-language:NL"> The main aim of this
project is to study the emergence of registers in two early
Germanic languages and to explore register change over time. The
relation between register and language change is an understudied
topic in historical linguistics, which so far has focused
primarily on space and time as dimensions of variation.
Nevertheless, there is evidence that specific authors vary in
their use of lexical items, as well as in their use of
morphological and syntactic patterns, according to
situational-functional settings. There is furthermore evidence
that medieval texts were linguistically adapted to different
audiences. In both cases, the attested variation is, in part at
least, register-specific. The focal languages of the project,
German and Swedish, are comparatively well documented for the
relevant time periods (ca. 750-1050 for German and ca. 1250-1450
for Swedish) and belong to the same language family. What is
more, the development of more formal registers in both of these
languages is strongly associated with literacy,
Christianization, and the emerging functional bilingualism of
Latin and the vernaculars. <br>
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Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-fareast-language:NL">For our study of emergent
registers, we initially concentrate on individual authors with a
comparatively wide range of text production. We adopt this
approach in order to avoid problems related to the unbalanced
representation of different genres in the historical corpora of
the Germanic languages. It furthermore enables us to filter out
other variables, such as time and place. Adopting a bottom-up
approach, we will identify lexical, morphological, and syntactic
features with relatively high frequency in specific textual
functions (e.g. narrative, revelatory, educational, scientific,
or legal), drawing data from (annotated) corpora as a basis for
quantitative analysis<br>
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Roman";mso-fareast-language:NL">For the project on register
emergence in Old Swedish we invite applications from candidates
with a MA in Scandinavian Linguistics or in General Linguistics
with a focus on North Germanic. In-depth knowledge of
Scandinavian language history and at least one older
Scandinavian language (preferably Old Swedish) is required, as
well as experience in corpus linguistics and statistics. Basic
reading knowledge of Latin is preferred, but may also be
acquired as soon as possible after appointment.<br>
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Roman";mso-fareast-language:NL">Closing date: December
27th, 2019<br>
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Roman";mso-fareast-language:NL">For further particulars and
to apply for this post please contact Muriel Norde at <a
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Prof. dr. Muriel Norde
Professorin für skandinavistische Sprachwissenschaft
Nordeuropa-Institut
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Unter den Linden 6
10099 Berlin
Besuchsanschrift:
Universitätsgebäude am Hegelplatz
Dorotheenstr. 24, Raum 3.118
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.murielnorde.com" moz-do-not-send="true">http://www.murielnorde.com</a>
Editor-in-chief, Folia Linguistica Historica
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/flin" moz-do-not-send="true">http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/flin</a></pre>
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