UiT The Arctic University of Norway has established «The Arctic MSCA-PF program» (uit.no/project/arcticmsca) to recruit excellent young researchers planning to apply for a Marie Skƚodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship (MSCA-PF) to pursue a career in research. We invite applications from promising young researchers within the field of General and Slavic linguistics. The selected candidate will write a proposal for a 24-month MSCA-PF at UiT together with Professor Tore Nesset. This is an opportunity to accelerate your research career while living in the urban research city of Tromsø, uniquely located at the top of the world surrounded by some of Europe’s last pristine wild nature.

This call is one of 70 from pre-selected supervisors at UiT The Arctic University of Norway through the “Arctic MSCA-PF program”. Successful postdoc candidates will be invited for a three-day MSCA-PF symposium June 4-6, 2024 (hybrid physical/digital event, see details at uit.no/project/arcticmsca/program-structure). At this event, the candidates will present their past research achievements, discuss future plans with their potential supervisor and learn how to write a successful MSCA-PF application. The selected candidates will, jointly with the supervisor, write the MSCA-PF application by the deadline of September 11, 2024.

In this call we search for talented, young researchers within the field of General and Slavic linguistics as presented by Professor Nesset.:

My research field is Slavic and general linguistics. Most of my work is devoted to Russian, but I am also interested in Ukrainian and other Slavic languages, as well as my native language, Norwegian. In all my work, I analyze authentic data, primarily from electronic corpora. I am interested in morphosyntactic rivalry, where two or more forms compete, such as the English suffixes -ity and -ness in words like universality and universalness. Using statistical models for the analysis of morphological rivalry, in recent years I have worked on constructions with aspectual prefixes, gender and number agreement, feminitives, motion verbs, numerals, and predicate adjectives. Among my recent research interests is linguistic analysis of concepts that are important in political discourse, such as “threat” and “security”. In terms of linguistic theory, I am interested in Cognitive Linguistics and Construction Grammar. Among my research interests are metaphor, metonymy, individuation, and motion events. I am particularly interested in collaboration with postdocs with a background in computational linguistics since this background complements my own. 

Please send your CV (max 3 pages) and describe a research project that will strengthen and complement the presented research (max 2 pages) to tore.nesset@uit.no by Feb 16th 2024. Mark your application "Arctic MSCA". Successful candidates will be contacted in late March 2024.