Open PhD /postdoc positions

4- year fully-funded PhD position on the topic of computational modelling of lexical innovation 

The Institute of Argumentation, Linguistics and Semiotics, at the USI Università della Svizzera italiana (Switzerland) invites applications for a 4-year PhD position that aims to investigate how new terms emerge and how they spread in different contexts, thereby comparing Western societies with hunter-gatherer societies. 

RESEARCH ENVIRONMENT: 

The position will be part of the National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) Evolving Language, a Swiss consortium with the ambitious goal of creating a new discipline, Evolutionary Language Science, that targets the past and future of language. The consortium consists of leading scientists from traditionally separated academic domains, which allows us to harvest the diverse expertise from the humanities, social sciences, computational sciences, natural sciences and medicine towards a broadscale interdisciplinary collaboration. Within this framework we offer a position in an interdisciplinary team of computational linguists and evolutionary anthropologists from the USI Università della Svizzera italiana and the University of Zurich (UZH). 

For more information and to apply go here. 

The position is to be filled as soon as possible.

Post-doc and PhD opportunities

I will soon be posting several PhD positions and a postdoc position linked to the Daccò Chair in Computational Linguistics at the USI Università della Svizzera italiana in Lugano, Switzerland.