The University Research Priority Program (URPP) Language and Space at the University of Zurich seeks to hire three postdoctoral research fellows by September 1, 2018. The URPP explores the interface between language and space with regard to:
(a) the distribution of languages and linguistic structures in geographical and social space (“language areas”), and
(b) the embedding of speech in the spatial environment as shaped by perception, motion, and action (“interactional spaces”).
The URPP combines insights from dialectology, typology, and interactional linguistics.