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.
Accommodation Costs LOT Schools
/in LOT News, News /by Brigit van der PasLOT would like to announce that the compensation for accommodation costs during the LOT schools has been increased to 100 euros per week of participation.
UiL-OTS Colloquium | 21 November
/in News /by JanacySharon Unsworth (Radboud University) will give the next UiL-OTS Colloquium on Thursday 21 November, 2019 at 15.30 pm.
Call for Abstracts | ISBPAC 2020
/in News /by JanacyThe 3rd International Symposium on Bilingual and L2 Processing in Adults and Children (ISBPAC 2020) would like to invite you to submit abstracts. Texts can be submitted until the 15th of January 2020.
KNAW Symposium on Multilingual Netherlands | 2 December
/in News /by JanacyOn Monday 2 December 2019, the KNAW is organising a symposium on multilingualism in the Netherlands.
Language Contact Symposium | 6 December
/in News /by JanacyIn Honour of Pieter Muysken On Friday December 6, 2019, 12.00 – 17.30, an international symposium on four different aspects of the study of language contact will be held at the Meertens Instituut (KNAW). The programme contains 10 talks and an additional presentation by Pieter Muysken, to whom this symposium is dedicated. The entire programme […]
LOT Dissertation 544: Traces of Language Contact
/in Dissertations, News /by JanacyWe are pleased to announce a new publication in the LOT Dissertation Series by Hanna Fricke.
Synergy Award | Deadline on 6 December
/in News /by JanacyOn 6 February 2020, NWO-SSH organises its third yearly conference, Synergy. As part of the event, NWO-SSH is organising ‘The Synergy Award’, a vibrant competition for PhD students with opportunities to learn and exchange with professionals.
LOT Dissertation 543: Tone in Saxwe
/in Dissertations, News /by JanacyWe are pleased to announce a new publication in the LOT Dissertation Series by Virginia Beavon-Ham.
3D-Print van een Oeroud Kleitablet Brengt Spijkerschrift Tot Leven
/in News /by JanacyMet een micro-CT-scanner ontcijferen onderzoekers voor het eerst spijkerschrift van duizenden jaren oud. NEMO Kennislink sprak met technici uit Delft en een assyrioloog uit Leiden die via een combinatie van specialismen nieuwe ontdekkingen deden.
MPI Colloquium
/in News /by JanacyDianne Newbury (Oxford Brookes University) will give the next MPI Colloquium on Wednesday 20 November, 2019 at 15.45 pm.
PhD Fellowship Position | International Max Planck Research School
/in News /by JanacyThe International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) for Language Sciences is offering one fully-funded PhD Fellowship for four years (2020-2024) with a preferred start-date of 1 September 2020.
Final Call for Abstracts | CLIN 30
/in News /by JanacyThe 30th Meeting of Computational Linguistics in The Netherlands (CLIN 30) will be organised by UiL-OTS, Utrecht University. CLIN 30 will take place at Drift 21 in Utrecht, the Netherlands on January 30, 2020. Presentation abstracts can be submitted until 17 November.
Publiekssymposium De Boerderij | 11 en 12 November
/in News /by JanacyOp maandag en dinsdag 11 en 12 november organiseert Leonie Cornips een feestelijk publieksymposium voor iedereen die het Meertens Instituut een warm hart toedraagt. Onderzoekers van het Meertens Instituut – de taalkundigen, etnologen, antropologen, orale-cultuuronderzoekers en dialectologen – buigen zich tijdens deze middagen over het thema ‘de boerderij in het verleden, heden en in de toekomst’.
Syntax Interface Lecture by Jos Tellings | 14 November
/in News /by JanacyThe upcoming Syntax Interface Lecture will take place in Utrecht on Thursday, November 14th. We will host a talk by Jos Tellings (Utrecht University) with the title “Bare superlatives and relative clauses in Dutch”.
LUCL Colloquium | 22 November
/in News /by JanacyOn Friday the 22nd of November, LUCL is organising a colloquium on Non-Isomorphic Semantic Categories in Bilinguals’ Systems by Virginia C. Mueller Gathercole (Florida Atlantic University).