Postdoc Researcher

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Postdoc Researcher position | University Leiden | Computational linguistics, morphology, and constructicography of Dutch October 12, 2026

Vacature ID: 16898 Functie categorie: Wetenschappelijke functies Aanstellingsomvang in uren min: 28 Aanstellingsomvang in uren max: 40 Standplaats: Leiden Sluitingsdatum: 1 november 2026

Faculty of Humanities, Leiden University Centre for Linguistics

Postdoctoral researcher, Computational linguistics, morphology and constructicography of Dutch Starting date: January 2027 (a later starting date can be negotiated) Deadline : November 1, 2026

Description

Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL) invites applications for a Postdoc position within the NWO project 'The Morphicon: A new gateway to morphological knowledge'.

The postdoctoral researcher will work in a small team to build a morphological constructiconfor Dutch , and to use it to advance our understanding of productivityin word-formation .

Constructicons are digital networks of grammatical constructions in a language. Such resources are being built for a variety of major languages, but not yet for Dutch. Moreover, existing constructicons all focus on syntactic constructions, neglecting morphology. The aim of this project is to develop the first morphological constructicon or "Morphicon" with Dutch as the target language. The resource will be developed by a team of three researchers-the PI, the Postdoc and a Ph-inD collaboration with the Instituut voor de Nederlandse Taal.

The postdoctoral researcher will participate in the team effort, but will also have their own research project.

The team will work together on transforming existing lexicographic and grammatical resources into a digital network. The network will consist of lexical constructions (simple and complex words) and grammatical constructions (word-formation pattern...