In een lawaaiige context zijn het niet alleen de lipbewegingen van jouw gesprekspartner die je helpen de boodschappen te ontcijferen. Ook handgebaren zijn van groot belang. Onze hersenen en ons gedrag leveren daarvoor het bewijs.
Dr Sterre Leufkens, Assistant Professor in Dutch Linguistics at Utrecht University, is the guest speaker at the ACLC seminar on Friday 21 June 2019 from 16:15 until 17:30.
View the programme and register for the International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE) here.
Reminder: all LOT members are cordially invited to LOT’s 25th anniversary celebration on Thursday 11 July 2019, starting with a special lecture by Martin Everaert, followed by drinks and dinner.
Don’t forget to register for the dinner before 27 June 2019.
On 14 June 2019 the RomTiN 2019 workshop will be held at Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. The keynote lecture will be given by Kim Groothuis (Cambridge University/ Universiteit Leiden).
We are pleased to announce a new publication in the LOT Dissertation Series by Andrea Santana Covarrubias.
Lecture by Andrea Scarantino, Georgia State University, Monday July 15, 2019, 15:30-17:15, Sonneborgh Observatory’s Lecture Hall, Zonnenburg 2, Utrecht.
We are pleased to announce a new publication in the LOT Dissertation Series by Dominique Blok.
We are pleased to announce a new publication in the LOT Dissertation Series by Andreas Joswig.
Het Pommers werd vroeger gesproken aan de zuidelijke kust van de Oostzee, en kwam via emigranten in Brazilië terecht. Postma schreef een grammatica van het Pommers, die nieuw licht werpt op onze kennis van het West-Germaans.
Dr Dineke Schokkin, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Australian National University, College of Asia and the Pacific, is the guest speaker at the ACLC seminar on Friday 7 June from 16:15 until 17:30.
The upcoming Syntax Interface Lecture will take place on Thursday, June 6th.
Upon several requests, the ESSLLI 2020 programme committee extends the deadline using a two step process as specified below.
The Faculty of Humanities at the University of Amsterdam invites applications for three part-time lecturer positions. Deadline for applications is 4 June 2019.
Albert Einstein en Leonardo da Vinci hadden dyslexie. Dat is niet zomaar toeval, volgens de auteurs van Dyslexie als kans. Mensen met dyslexie hebben namelijk een andere hersenstructuur. Die zit ze vaak in de weg, maar biedt ook grote voordelen.
Paul Hoffman will give the next MPI colloquium on Tuesday, June 18, 2019 at 15.45 pm.
The Leiden University Center for Linguistics (LUCL) will organise the ‘Going Romance 2019’ conference series on November 28 – 29, 2019. Going Romance is the European conference that focuses on Romance languages from the perspective of current linguistic theorising. In the quarter of a century of its existence, it has developed into the major European discussion forum for theoretically relevant research on Romance languages.
Focusing on the thematic orientation ‘Youth Language: Multilingualism in a Global Context’ this conference discusses theoretical or empirical issues in written and spoken manifestations of youth language from any part of the world including the attitudes and ideologies related to them.
Dr Calle Börstell, postdoctoral researcher at Radboud University, is the guest speaker at the ACLC seminar on 24 May 2019 from 16:15 – 17:30. He will talk about ‘Grammaticalization of differential object marking (DOM) across sign languages’.
Een klein deel van de bevolking associeert cijfers en letters altijd met bepaalde kleuren. Toch komen dergelijke intuïties onder een veel bredere laag van de bevolking voor, zo blijkt uit onderzoek van de Radboud Universiteit en de universiteit van Edinburgh.
The upcoming Syntax Interface Lecture will take place on Tuesday, May 21st. We will host a talk by Ans van Kemenade (Radboud University, Centre for Language Studies) with the title ‘Discourse particle then in English: clause structure and discourse organisation’.
We are pleased to announce a new publication in the LOT Dissertation Series by Klaske Elving.
Professor Kai von Fintel (MIT) will give a guest lecture at Utrecht University on Tuesday 11 June 2019, 15.15 – 17.00. The title of his lecture is “Exclusives and exceptives as sentential coordinators (or: Only, there’s another *only*)”.
The Universidad de Granada (Spain) is looking for native speakers of Dutch who are learning Spanish to take part in a study on how people learn a foreign language.