Two Doctoral Positions in Linguistics

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Reference no.: 2026/010. Two doctoral positions are available as of April 1st, 2026. The positions are available until the end of 2029.

The University of Konstanz is a dynamic and internationally successful research university with approximately 10,000 students. The campus university’s architecture promotes interdisciplinary cooperation and a sense of community among researchers, lecturers and students. The University of Konstanz has been continuously funded by the German Excellence Strategy since 2006.

The newly granted SFB 1760 investigates the role of silence and noise in our capacity for perceiving, learning and producing linguistic signals (). The first phase will run from April 2026 to December 2029 and encompasses a wide variety of theoretical, experimental, computational and empirical research within linguistics, in collaboration with projects from computer science, computational social science, media studies and sociology.

The two doctoral positions advertised belong to the project B02 “Expletive negation” (), part of the SFB 1760. The project investigates expletive negation (i.e., overt negation with seeming no negative import) from a cross-environment and cross-linguistic perspective. The linguistic environments to be examined include: (i) propositional attitudes like fear and forbid; (ii) temporal operators like before and until, modal operators like unless and other functors like almost; and (iii) comparatives. For the period 2026-2029, the languages to be investigated include: Catalan, German, Hebrew, Modern Greek and Russian.

Your Responsibilities

• Corpus work
• Design of fieldwork questionnaires and data collection
• Design and execution of experimental studies
• Theory building

Your Competencies

• MA degree in linguistics (completed or in progress)
• Background in Formal Semantics and Pragmatics
• Some experience with data collection and/or experimental approaches
• It is desirable that the candidate speaks one for the five languages investigated in this period (Catalan, German, Hebrew, Modern Greek, Russian) or some other language hosting expletive negation

We Offer

• The opportunity to do a PhD within the Collaborative Research Centre ‘Silence, Noise and Signal in Language’
• An open, motivated research team and interdisciplinary research environment
• Collaborating researchers at doctoral, postdoctoral and professorial levels
• Excellent career and equal opportunity coaching

Applications should contain:
(i) a short motivation letter
(ii) an academic CV
(iii) copies of all previous degrees, including detailed transcripts of records, and
(iv) the names and email addresses of two academic referees. Incomplete applications will not be considered.

The search is open until the position is filled.

Questions can be directed to Ms. Prof. Dr. Maribel Romero via e-mail: .

We look forward to receiving your application until 15.02.2026 via our .

The University of Konstanz is committed to ensuring an environment that provides equal opportunities and promotes diversity, as well as a good balance between university and family life. As an equal opportunity employer, we strive to increase the number of women working in research and teaching. We also support working couples through our . Persons with disabilities are explicitly encouraged to apply. They will be given preference if appropriately qualified (contact , + 49 7531 88-4016).