MCF Russian language and grammar (Odyssey: 260853; Section CNU: 13)

Application to be submitted on Odyssée:
https://www.galaxie.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/ensup/cand_recrut…

Teaching

The future lecturer will teach in the Russian Studies Department. He or she will teach courses covering the fundamentals of the Russian language (language structures, themes, etc.) in the Licence LLCER Études russes.

The candidate must be a linguist by training. The candidate will be required to interact in Russian with the jury during his/her audition.

The recruited colleague may, depending on the focus of his/her work, provide part of his/her service in cross-disciplinary teaching at the Licence and Master levels of INALCO.

The candidate's proven skills and experience in ICTE will be sought in order to contribute to the development of digital teaching materials within INALCO. 
Teaching may be provided in French, Russian and English.

Teaching department: 
Location: INALCO, 65 rue des Grands Moulins CS21351 75214-PARIS cedex 13
Department director: Ms Irina Nesterenko and Mr Ilya Platov
Department director's e-mail: View e-mail 
Department URL: https://www.inalco.fr/etudes-russes

Research

The candidate will consider the convergence between his/her work and Inalco's intellectual and scientific identity, as embodied in the collective projects carried out by the establishment and its research units. Depending on his or her specialties, the teacher-researcher recruited will be able to join the research unit of his or her choice from among Inalco's own teams and UMRs under the (co)supervision of Inalco, in particular: CREE (Centre de recherche Europes-Eurasie) and SeDyL (Structure et Dynamique des Langues)

The candidate, a specialist in Russian linguistics, will be integrated into Axis 1 of CREE. He or she will be able to contribute to one or more of the following research projects:

• Corpus, software, collective lexicography: the candidate will be able to participate in lexicography work on the Russian language, as well as in the development of tools linked to automatic language processing (ALP). Expertise in computational linguistics will be particularly valued.
• Language transmission: oral and written teaching: skills in Russian language didactics, particularly in the study of the interaction between lexicon and grammar, will be appreciated.
• Linguistic change and variation. Language contacts: the candidate will be able to analyze linguistic evolutions in relation to social transformations, focusing on the dynamics of language contact at different historical periods.
• Description and theorization of Slavic languages: the candidate will be able to contribute to the team's research favoring the enunciative approach to language facts.

The candidate should have a solid foothold in his/her field of research, both nationally and internationally. He or she will be expected to take part in specialized seminars such as "Slavistics and general linguistics: crossed paths" and "Comparative and contrasting study of Slavic languages", aimed at Master's and PhD students.

Laboratory affiliation: CREE Centre de recherche Europes-Eurasie
Location: Inalco, 2 rue de Lille, 75007 Paris
Laboratory director: Etienne Boisserie, Sophie Hohmann, Svetlana Krylosova
Laboratory director's e-mail: View e-mail 
Laboratory URL: https://www.inalco.fr/cree

The UMR 8202-SeDyL supports the recruitment of a candidate whose work will focus on a detailed description of contemporary Russian data, taking into account the interferences between different levels of analysis (morphology, syntax, semantics), as well as the processes, including non-segmental ones (word order, prosody) ensuring the integration of the utterance in various contexts. His or her work could be part of the research carried out within the Description and Typology axis, notably on the Structure of information: discourse and utterance (sub-themes: introduction of new information, focus, epistemic domain). From a pedagogical point of view, they will also be able to contribute to a reflection on grammatical terminology, the relationship between written and spoken language, as well as linguistic variation in all its forms, which should ultimately lead to the development of new pedagogical tools, for which skills in NLP for corpus processing, and in ICTE would be valuable.

The recruited MCF will also be able to join the working group on the Fenno-Balto-Slavic area, already represented within the laboratory by specialists in Finnish, Lithuanian and Russian. In this capacity, he will participate in the seminar Questions de grammaire dans l'aire fenno-balto-slave (Questions of grammar in the Fenno-Balto-Slavic area), the only one of its kind in France, which welcomes Master's students and will soon be included in the INALCO Doctoral School program, as well as in editorial projects resulting from the work of this seminar. Within this framework, he will also be able to contribute to the reflection carried out within the Contact, linguistic ecology and areality axis on the dynamics of linguistic contact and the criteria for defining and describing linguistic areas.

Laboratory affiliation: SeDyL, Structure et Dynamique des Langues, UMR 8202, CNRS, INALCO, IRD
Location: CNRS Campus, 7 rue Guy Môquet Villejuif
Name of laboratory director: Stefano MANFREDI
Laboratory director's phone number: 01 49 58 37 22
Laboratory director's e-mail: View e-mail 
Laboratory director's URL: https://sedyl.cnrs.fr/membres/chercheurs/stefano-manfredi/

The position you are applying for is likely to be located in a "restricted area" as defined in article R. 413-5-1 of the French penal code. If this is the case, your appointment and/or assignment can only take place after access authorization has been issued by the head of the establishment, in accordance with the provisions of article 20-4 of decree n°84-431 of June 6 1984.

Reference: Decree of 6 February 2023 on the general procedures governing transfers, secondments, and competitive recruitment of Maîtres de conférences, University Professors, and Junior Professor Chairs.