Assistant professor (post-doc) doc at the ‘Slavicus’ Centre for Corpus and Experimental Research on Slavic Languages

Call no. 67.2025.NCN.IDN.WN.MR of July 31, 2025

Institute/Department: Faculty of Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Position: assistant professor post-doc
Type of position: research
– in research discipline of linguistics
– in research field of comparative and experimental linguistics
Vacancies/positions: 1
Type of contract: employment contract
Application deadline: 31.08.2025
Expected final evaluation results:  September 2025
Envisaged job starting date: 1^st October 2025
Period of employment: 12 months

Applications are invited from the candidates fulfilling the statutory requirements specified in the Higher Education Act dated 20th July 2018 (O.J. 2018, section 1668) and the Statute of the University of Wroclaw.

Project description:

GOAL: The category of PERFECT is subject to considerable cross-linguistic variation. The goal of this project is to use an innovative methodology dubbed Translation Mining in collaboration with our partners from Utrecht University to systematize this variation in Baltic and Slavic languages by comparing the original version of a selected novel and its translations to Russian, Ukrainian, Belarussian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Serbian, Slovene, Macedonian, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Latvian. Based on the quantitative research, we will develop the descriptive statistics of tense and aspect use in the investigated languages and we will visualize it using the computational technique called Multidimensional Scaling, which generates temporal maps of hundreds of datapoints connected with the underlying contexts of use of the investigated constructions in individual languages. Our second goal is to use the Translation Mining and Multidimensional Scaling methodology to verify Dickey’s (2000, 2015, 2018, 2020) micro-typology of Slavic grammatical aspect.
Employment is planned as part of the NCN SONATA BIS-11 (2021/42/E/HS2/00143) project ‘From a multilingual parallel corpus to the micro-typology of the PERFECT in Baltic and Slavic’ (director: dr Dorota Klimek-Jankowska)

Formal requirements:

1. The candidate should have the doctoral degree awarded by a different institution than the one where the employment and/or was employed as a postdoctoral researcher for at least 10 months at another institution outside Poland.
2. The candidate should have the doctoral degree awarded not earlier than 7 years before submitting the application.
3. During the period of employment in the project the candidate cannot receive remuneration from another employer under an employment contract in Poland or abroad.

Requirements
The candidate is required to have:

1. Have a PhD in linguistics.
2. Have documented experience in general, comparative and experimental research in linguistics.
3. Have native or documented near-native competence in at least one Slavic language,
4. Have a well-documented publication record in linguistics.
5. Be proficient in English allowing fluent communication in academic activities (including conference and meeting participation) and publications.
6. Have experience in working in research projects (ideally in an international, interdisciplinary research team).

Additionally, the Committee may take the following assets into account:

1. Experience in using quantitative or elicitation methods in linguistics.
2. Experience in statistical analysis in comparative research in linguistics.

Responsibilities 

1. Collaborating with the PI and other team members in the process of developing a multilingual database in the planned Translation Mining research and visualizing the results using Multidimensional Scaling tools and analysis.
2. Analyzing corpus and questionnaire-based data from Slavic and Baltic (including data visualization, consulting native speaker informants) and collaborating with the whole team in consolidating the results of the data analysis and visualization of all the Slavic and Baltic languages investigated in the project with the goal of developing a comprehensive semantic micro-typology of the perfect and the perfective and imperfective aspect.
3. Developing formal accounts of the observed patterns of variation and planning, designing and conducting experiments verifying the proposed theories in collaboration with the whole project team.
4. Publishing articles in highly valued international journals and presenting the results at international conferences.

Organizational tasks:

1. Helping in organizing project meetings.
2. Helping in creating and editing the project website and in other activities popularizing project activities and outcomes.
3. Helping in managing PhD students involved in the project.
4. Editorial work.

Required documents

1. Personal questionnaire of the person applying for employment (download Personal questionnaire).
2. A detailed CV in English including among others information about conference presentations, participation in research projects and different research-related awards and achievements as well as organizational academic achievements.
3. Photocopy(s) of diploma(s) attesting to the award of a master’s degree, doctoral or post-doctoral degree or the conferral of the title of professor (please select appropriate).
4. Statement of whether the University of Wroclaw will be the primary workplace in the event of winning the competition (download Workplace statement).
5. Declaration regarding the scientific discipline in which the candidate will conduct research; in the case of persons conducting research in more than one discipline: percentual commitment in each of the disciplines (download Declaration of scientific discipline).
6. Self-presentation containing a description of the candidate’s scientific activity, level of internationalization, organizational activity and teaching activity.
7. A list of the candidate’s research works published in the last 10 years.
8. Electronic versions of the two most important publications that the candidate considers representative of his or her scientific achievements, or an explanation of the lack of them.
9. Application for employment addressed to His Magnificence the Rector.
10. Declaration in connection with Article 113 of the Higher Education and Science Act (download Declaration – Article 113).

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All the documents should be sent only in electronic form to the following address: praca@uwr.edu.pl with the subject of the message: “assistant professor post-doc.67.NCN.IDN.WN.MR“.

Additional information

1. The University of Wrocław reserves the right to contact only selected candidates.
2. Selected candidates may be invited for an interview.
3. The University of Wrocław reserves the right to close the competition without selecting a candidate.
4. The University of Wrocław reserves the right to annul the competition.
5. The University of Wrocław does not provide housing.

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