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.
Door moderne hersenscantechnieken is de laatste jaren veel veranderd in het onderzoek naar taal in het brein. Zo weten we dat er veel meer hersengebieden betrokken zijn bij taal dan de eerste neurolinguïsten vermoedden. Hoe verandert dit ons denken over taal? NEMO Kennislink sprak met Peter Hagoort, hoogleraar cognitieve neurowetenschap.
De Dag van de Nederlandse Spraakkunst (voorheen: Zinsbouw) is een jaarlijkse workshop waar taalkundigen vanuit verschillende achtergronden (disciplines, theorieën) in debat gaan over thema’s die betrekking hebben op de Nederlandse fonologie, morfologie, syntaxis en semantiek.
On Monday the 16th of December, Kyle Johnson (UMass), will be speaking at the next ComSyn lecture.
The 2020 IMPRS conference will take place from Wednesday 3th of June until Friday 5th of June at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
All AVT and Anéla members are invited to submit an abstract for the Grote Taaldag 2020. Abstracts should be submitted before 6 December 2019.
We are pleased to announce a new publication in the LOT Dissertation Series by Rosalinde Stadt.
What does the word lord have to do with bread? How is smile related to mirror? And why is Donald such an appropriate name for an American president?
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).
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