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>POSTDOCTORAL POSITIONS AVAILABLE
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>The Comparative Cognition and Language section of the Max Planck
>Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology has 2 or 3 postdoctoral
>positions available for 2 years from Fall, 1998.  The MPI for
>Evolutionary Anthropology is a new interdisciplinary research institute
>in Leipzig, Germany.  The institute will have state-of-the-art
>facilities for research, with excellent funding for all research related
>activities.  The working language of the institute is English.
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>Candidates will be expected to contribute to a working group
>investigating various aspects of first language acquisition from a
>cross-linguistic perspective.  The group is headed by Michael Tomasello
>and Elena Lieven and will focus on such topics as: verb-argument
>structure, lexical semantics, discourse and syntax, and the cognitive
>and pragmatic bases of language.  The institute will also have a
>research team in Linguistics, headed by Bernard Comrie.  Requirements
>for the position: (a) PhD by the starting date; and (b) research
>experience in first language acquisition and/or cognitive/functional
>linguistics.   Salary competitive.
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>Interested candidates should send a CV, reprints, and the names of 3
>references to Michael Tomasello; Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary
>Anthropology; Inselstrasse 22-26; D-04103 Leipzig, Germany.  E-mail
>applications (and requests for information) may be sent to Tomasello at
>psymt@emory.edu.  Applications will be reviewed beginning April 15,
>1998, with decisions soon after that.
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Lise Menn
Professor and Chair
Linguistics Department - Box 295
University of Colorado
Boulder CO 80309-0295
303-492-1609; fax 303-492-4416

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