The Ohio State University's Department of Linguistics is seeking to hire a tenure-track faculty member at the rank of Assistant Professor who specializes in syntactic theory, with additional interest in artificial intelligence, to develop and maintain a productive research program, provide high-quality supervision, and teach graduate and undergraduate courses.
Requirements
- A Ph.D. in Linguistics or doctoral degree in a related field
- Mathematically rigorous approach to syntactic theory (e.g., logical or statistical)
- Interest in artificial intelligence, particularly large language models (LLMs)
- Experience with syntactic theory and its application to empirical data
- Ability to develop and teach graduate and undergraduate courses in syntax and other areas of expertise
- Experience with peer reviewing and/or other professional service
- Familiarity with linguistic comprehension of LLMs
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain a productive, high-quality research program
- Provide high-quality supervision of graduate and undergraduate research
- Develop and teach high-quality graduate and undergraduate courses in syntax and other area(s) of expertise
- Support departmental operations through administrative roles and/or service on committees as assigned
- Contribute to the scholarly community via peer reviewing and/or other professional service
- Apply a mathematically rigorous approach to hypothesizing about empirical syntactic data
- Engage with large language models (LLMs) in connection with syntactic architecture or issues of syntactic processing or learnability
Other
- A Ph.D. in Linguistics or doctoral degree in a related field is required prior to the start position date of August 15, 2026
- ABDs are welcome to apply
- Ideal candidates will complement other areas of expertise in the department, methodologically and/or in terms of secondary specialization
- The university is an equal opportunity employer, including veterans and disability
- Final candidates are subject to successful completion of a background check
