The entire programme of the Dutch Annual Linguistics Day (or Grote Taaldag) is now available online. The programme includes the nominees of the ‘LOT Populariseringsprijs’ and the ‘Anéla/AVT Dissertatieprijs’, as well as all abstracts.
Utrecht University is happy to announce the programme for ESSLLI2020, which will take place from 3 to 14 August 2020 in Utrecht.
Anna K. Kuhlen (Institute for Psychology Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) will give the next MPI Colloquium on Wednesday, January 29, 2020 at 15.45 pm.
Utecht University is happy to announce the 1st Microcontact Conference on Heritage Language Syntax to be held at Utrecht University on 12-13 March 2020.
We are pleased to announce a new publication in the LOT Dissertation Series by Guusje Jol.
The Second UiL-OTS Interframework Colloquium will take place on February 13, 2020. It will be entitled When the category is unclear: the case of ‘semilexical’ items.
The upcoming Syntax Interface Lecture will take place on Wednesday, January 22nd. We will host a talk by Carlos Muñoz Perez (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) with the title ” The structure of gaps: on the interaction of derivational order, economy and other sensible principles”.
All LOT affiliated Research Master and PhD students (both internal and external) can apply for reimbursement of accommodation and travel costs.
The Department of Modern Languages of the University of Liège and the Institute for Language and Communication at the University of Louvain are looking for applicants for a fully funded four-year PhD fellowship in contrastive corpus linguistics.
On Wednesday 8 April 2020, the annual Anéla/VIOT Juniorendag (junior research day) will take place at the University of Groningen.
Ongeveer een op de drie basisschoolleerlingen is meertalig. Wat betekent die meertaligheid voor de taalgebruiker? Vier taalwetenschappers presenteerden hun meest recente bevindingen tijdens het publiekssymposium Meertalig Nederland.
We are pleased to announce a new publication in the LOT Dissertation Series by Véronique Verhagen.
The full programme of the Dutch Annual Linguistics Day, co-organised by AVT, LOT and Anéla is now online. The Grote Taaldag takes place on Friday January 31, 2020.
Marloes Oomen, PhD candidate at the UvA, is the guest speaker at the ACLC seminar on 24 January 2020 from 16:15 until 17:30 . Her talk will be about ‘Iconicity as a mediator between verb semantics and morphosyntactic structure: A corpus-based study on verbs in German Sign Language’. A sign language interpreter will be present.
The jury of the LOT Populariseringsprijs 2019, consisting of Mathilde Jansen (chair, Meertens/NEMO Kennislink), Folkert Kuiken (UvA), and Mark de Vries (RUG), has evaluated a large number of submissions and has nominated three projects for the prize.
The Utrecht Institute of Linguistics invites applications for a postdoc position in formal semantics, part of the project “The Formal Semantics of Collective Categorization” (ROCKY), an ERC Advanced Grant to Prof Yoad Winter (Utrecht). The deadline for applications is 27 January 2020.
In honour of Henk Schultink, every LOT school organises a Schultink lecture. We are happy to announce that this LOT School’s invited lecturer is Theo Marinis, Professor of Multilingualism at the University of Konstanz and at the University of Reading. The lecture will take place on 16 January, 16:30 – 17:30 at Tilburg University.
Mirjam de Jonge, postdoc at Université Côte D’Azur and PhD candidate at the UvA, is the guest speaker at this ACLC seminar on 10 January 2020 from 16:15 until 17:30 (followed by drinks). She will talk about ‘Inflection and derivation in silent word production: neurophysiological evidence’.
We are happy to announce that Morphology Days in the Low Countries (MiLC 2020) will take place in Utrecht in April, 2020 (April 8 and 9). These days form a revival and a continuation of the Morphology Days that used to be an international meeting dealing with morphology that took place in either the Netherlands or Belgium. The three most recent editions were organised in Louvain-la-Neuve (2017), Leuven (2015) and Leeuwarden (2013).
Middelbare scholieren krijgen bij de vreemde talen veel grammatica. Maar is dat eigenlijk wel nodig? Niet per se, zo blijkt uit onderzoek van Leslie Piggott. Leerlingen die de eerste twee jaar geen grammaticaregels krijgen aangeboden in de Engelse les, spreken en schrijven meer én vloeiender.
We are pleased to announce a new publication in the LOT Dissertation Series by Sanne Berends.
At popular request, the deadline for abstracts for the Grote Taaldag (Dutch Annual Linguistics Day) is extended to December 16.
The upcoming Syntax Interface Lecture will take place on Thursday, December 12th. We will host a talk by András Bárány (Universiteit Leiden) with the title “Universals and typological gaps in subject and object agreement”.
On Friday December 13, 2019, the Netherlands Society for Phonetic Sciences holds her yearly Phonetics Day (“Dag van de fonetiek”), at the University of Amsterdam. The programme can be found on the website of the Netherlands Society for Phonetic Sciences.
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