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UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN, SCHOOL OF LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

RESEARCH FELLOW IN EARLY MODERN ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Language and Linguistic Evidence in the 1641 Depositions

In support of a major multidisciplinary Arts and Humanities Research Council funded project Language and Linguistic Evidence in the 1641 Depositions, led by Dr Barbara Fennell, we are seeking a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Early Modern English Language. You will work with the Principal Investigator (PI) and a team of other linguists, computer specialists and historians to develop a rule-system for English in 1640s Ireland which can be used to tag and analyze a digitized corpus of quasi-legal documents. You will also be responsible for interpreting the evidence yielded by the computational analysis regarding English variation in Ireland, and be responsible with the PI for publishing the results in a major peer-reviewed journal. You will be responsible with the PI for publishing the results in a major peer-reviewed journal.

Salary will be paid at £29,853 per annum on the Grade 6 scale.
Informal enquiries may be made to Dr Barbara Fennell (b.a.fennell@abdn.ac.uk).

To apply online for this position visit www.abdn.ac.uk/jobs or alternatively you may request an application pack by emailing your name and contact details to jobs@abdn.ac.uk or by telephoning our 24 hour answer service on (01224) 272727 quoting the job reference number LAN018R.

The closing date for the receipt of applications is Monday 22 March 2010.

It is anticipated that the first interviews will be held in Aberdeen on 25 March 2010.