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Postdoc Position on the Typology of Postverbal Negation, in a Multi-Method Crosslinguistic Project - Faculty of Humanities - 08-11-2026 Are you an experienced linguistic typologist with a keen interest in interdisciplinary approaches to cross-linguistic research? Do you imagine yourself working in a small team at the crossroads of linguistics and cognitive science? Then we welcome your application for a postdoctoral position in our multi-methods project on negation across languages. Postdoc Position on the Typology of Postverbal Negation, in a Multi-Method Crosslinguistic Project - Faculty of Humanities - 15541 - PhD - €3,706 - €5,760 - 30.4 hours - Closes on 08-11-2026 Postdoc Position on the Typology of Postverbal Negation, in a Multi-Method Crosslinguistic Project - Faculty of Humanities - PhD - 30.4 hours - 15541 - €3,706 - €5,760 - Closes on 08-11-2026 Are you an experienced linguistic typologist with a keen interest in interdisciplinary approaches to cross-linguistic research? Do you imagine yourself working in a small team at the crossroads of linguistics and cognitive science? Then we welcome your application for a postdoctoral position in our multi-methods project on negation across languages. Postdoc Position on the Typology of Postverbal Negation, in a Multi-Method Crosslinguistic Project - Faculty of Humanities Working at the UvA Come work with us In this project you collaborate in a small international team of (psycho)linguists and cognitive scientists on the evolution and processing of negation in language. Together, we investigate the cognitive underpinnings of why most languages prefer to express the negator early rather than late in the utterance. Alongside one of the PIs and another part-time postdoctoral researcher, you will carry out a typological study on languages with and without late negation, with specific attention to languages of Papua, South Americ...