PhD student position and postdoctoral position on "Time in Translation", Utrecht (The Netherlands)

The Utrecht-based 'Time in Translation' project is hiring a PhD (1,0 FTE, 4 years) and a Post-Doc (0,8 FTE, 3 years).

'Time in Translation: a semantics of the Perfect' is funded by NWO, by way of a Vrije Competitie project awarded to Prof. dr. Henriëtte de Swart and dr. Bert Le Bruyn. The project aims to develop the meaning of the present perfect. We will collect data from 5 languages (Dutch, English, German, French, Spanish) in parallel corpora, and analyse perfect use in relation to other verbal tense forms both at the sentence and at the discourse level. Translation experiments will be used to check the space of variation in choosing one form over another.