Praedoc (Diss) (f/m/x) - Bavarian Dialectology and Dialectometry

The Linguistics research department at the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities (ACDH), part of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, is offering a 4-year pre-doctoral research position focusing on Bavarian dialectology and dialectometry. The selected candidate will examine geographic structures across phonology, morphology, syntax, and lexicon using the historical WBÖ corpus data. Responsibilities include corpus preparation, geostatistical analyses, data quality assurance, publishing findings, and authoring a dissertation. The role provides an opportunity to conduct independent research within an international, FWF-funded project team based in Vienna.

• Prepare and linguistically enrich the WBÖ corpus data, including lemmatization and Part-of-Speech annotation, in cooperation with technical developers.
• Conduct dialectometric and geostatistical analyses such as cluster analysis, multidimensional scaling, factor analysis, and kriging interpolation.
• Investigate the geographic structuring and comparative variations of phonology, morphology, syntax, and lexicon.
• Perform data quality assurance and critically evaluate the applied quantitative methodologies.
• Publish research outcomes in academic journals and present findings at workshops and international conferences.
• Collaborate actively within the ACDH linguistics department and with external international project partners.
• Write and complete an academic dissertation within the framework of the BASyQ project.