2 PhD Research Positions at University of Cologne

The University of Cologne is one of the largest and most research-intensive universities in Germany, offering a wide range of subjects. With its six faculties and its interfaculty centres, it offers a broad spectrum of scientific disciplines and internationally outstanding profile areas, supported by the administration with its services.

HeidelGram will build up a systematic and representative XML-annotated 10-million-word corpus of English grammars dating from 1550 to 1900. The project innovatively combines corpus-linguistic and network-analytic methods for examining, assessing and visualizing the evaluative discursive practices in historical English grammars. The corpus will thus enable the investigation of research questions beyond the purely grammatical, including pragmatic and sociolinguistic practices, the development of thought-styles as well as grammar authors’ discursively construed metalinguistic attitudes to the relationship between linguistic norming and language usage.

The project is lead and supervised by Prof. Dr. Beatrix Busse at the University of Cologne.

YOUR TASKS
complete a project-related doctoral dissertation
with PI regularly present results at national and international scientific conferences and transfer results to the public
build up the corpus of historical English grammar books (including compilation and digitization), proofread digitized corpus data and add corpus-specific annotations
develop a corpus-specific software tool
help supervise student research assistants

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2 PhD Research Positions at University of Cologne