Postdoctoral researcher Syntax of interactional linguistics

Vacancy number: 16599

Job type: Academic staff

Contract hours min: 38

Contract hours max: 40

Location: Leiden

Applying is possible up to and including: 10 juli 2026

Postdoctoral researcher Syntax of interactional linguistics

1.0 fte, 3 years

The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics is looking for a postdoctoral researcher in the project Interactional linguistics from periphery to core, funded by an awarded to Dr. Jenneke van der Wal.

The start of the position is flexible, earliest in August 2026.

Project description

The project intends to explore what a model of grammar should look like in order to explain how the knowledge of the speaker and listener are expressed in morphosyntax. In particular, the aim of the postdocs work is to propose a way to incorporate evidentiality, egophoricity, and mirativity into a formal theory of grammar. Wiltschkos (2014,...