LOT – Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics

Landelijke Onderzoekschool Taalwetenschap

400 faculty members

300 PhD & RMa students

LOT unites about 400 faculty members and 300 PhD and RMa students and provides a meeting point to further national and international communication for the benefit of linguistic research and education. Researchers from the participating institutes share knowledge, work together on theoretical and methodological matters, discuss their data and research in seminars and lecture series and in collaborations of various other kinds.

Below you will find recent news and announcements of events from the institutes participating in LOT and from LOT itself.

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News & Announcements

Conference programme for the International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics (IAFPA 2025) in The Hague

The International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics (IAFPA) invites you to attend their 33rd annual conference in The Hague, 20-23 July.

Kletskoppen:Taal en wetenschap in de praktijk

The Radboud University and the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics zoeken stagiaires voor het organiseren van het Kletskoppen Festival 2025-2026.

Symposium: Building a new life in a new language: Challenges and opportunities for child refugees

Utrecht University invites you to attend a symposium on the 26th of September, 2025.

Anela/VIOT Scriptieprijs

Call for the AVT-ANÉLA PhD Dissertation Award 2025

The General Association for Linguistics (AVT) and the Dutch Association for Applied Linguistics (Anéla) are accepting nominations for the best PhD dissertation in the field of linguistics. The deadline for nominations is August 15th, 2025.

LOT 693 | Comparative morphology across categories

The Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics is pleased to announce a new publication in the LOT Dissertation Series by Anastasiia Vyshnevska.

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Introducing the LOT Representatives

We are pleased to introduce our LOT representatives. If you have questions, comments, or ideas, contact our representatives, and they will help you.

Lecture

Utrecht Syntax Interface Lecture EXTRA by Pritha Chandra (IIT Delhi), TODAY, 16:00-17:00

The Utrecht Syntax Interface Lecture invites you to attend a talk by Pritha Chandra, on the syntax of politeness in Eastern Indo-Aryan. The talk takes place today (17 June) from 16:00-17:00.

Plasticity of the language system and its integration with cognition and perception

The Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics will host a talk by Marina Bedny on July 7, 10:00 – 11:30.

LOT 692 | The atoms of imperatives

The Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics is pleased to announce a new publication in the LOT Dissertation Series by Engela de Villiers.

LOT 691 | The present perfective paradox

The Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics is pleased to announce a new publication in the LOT Dissertation Series by Tom Koss.

LOT 690 | Connectedness is key

The Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics is pleased to announce a new publication in the LOT Dissertation Series by Kaatje Dalderop.

Lecture

Utrecht Syntax Interface Lecture by Imke Driemel (University of York), Thursday 5 June, 16:00-17:00

The next Syntax Interface Lecture will take place on Thursday, June 5, both online and in person. Imke Driemel will hold a talk titled “Anaphoric definites and where they put the index.”

MPI Colloquium: Dr. Cedric Boeckx

The Max Planck Institute invites you to attend a Colloquium by Dr. Cedric Boeckx on Neotenies on the 1st of July, from 15:45-17:00.

Schultink lecture by Adele Goldberg | 26 June | University of Antwerp

We are delighted to announce that the Schultink lecture during the LOT Summer School 2025 will be given by Adele Goldberg (Princeton) on 26 June. The title of the lecture is Constructing Meaning: Beyond words. If you wish to attend, please register.

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Second Call for the 2025 LOT Event Fund will open soon!

The second call for financial support by LOT will open soon. This financial support is to help organize events that extend and stimulate educational opportunities for PhD candidates and RMA students and that function as a platform for knowledge generation and exchange for LOT members.

Upcoming Events

  • June 23, 2025 - July 4, 2025
    LOT Summer School 2025

    The LOT Summer School 2025 will be co-hosted by the University of Antwerp.

  • July 21, 2025 - August 1, 2025
    Leiden Summer School in Languages and Linguistics 2025

    The Leiden Summer School in Languages and Linguistics offers a varied program of specialised courses in Descriptive linguistics, in Chinese, Germanic, Indo-European, Indian, Iranian, Semitic languages and linguistics, as well as a number of introductory linguistic courses.

  • January 12, 2026 - January 23, 2026
    LOT Winter School 2026

    The LOT Winter School 2026 is co-organised with the VU and will take place from 12 to 23 January 2026.

  • June 15, 2026 - June 26, 2026
    LOT Summer School 2026

    The LOT Summer School 2026 is co-organised by the CLCG and will take place at the University of Groningen, from 15 to 26 June 2026.

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