In de persconferenties van premier Rutte en minister De Jonge komen ontzettend veel metaforen en frames voorbij. Welke zijn succesvol en welke niet? Dragen ze bij aan de begrijpelijkheid? En kunnen we misschien nog wat leren van complottheorieën?
Op vrijdag 18 december a.s. organiseert de Nederlandse Vereniging voor Fonetische Wetenschappen de online Middag van de Fonetiek.
The upcoming Syntax Interface Lecture will take place on Monday December 7th. We will host a talk by Rick Nouwen (Utrecht University) with the title “Intensification, Composition and Goldilocks”.
Op 18 november werd bekend dat de Nederlandse Dataprijs 2020 in de categorie sociale en geesteswetenschappen is toegekend aan de 17e-eeuwse krantenset die door honderden vrijwilligers is getranscribeerd binnen een samenwerkingsproject tussen het Instituut voor de Nederlandse Taal (INT), de Koninklijke Bibliotheek, de nationale bibliotheek van Nederland (KB) en het Meertens Instituut onder leiding van Nicoline van der Sijs.
The Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics is pleased to announce a new publication in the LOT Dissertation Series by Pomme van de Weerd.
Het departement Talen, Literatuur en Communicatie van de Universiteit Utrecht is op zoek naar een Aio.
Onze Taal/ANV-taalboekenprijs 2020 – Door Nicoline van der Sijs
EFNIL (the European Federation of National Institutions for Language) calls on students to participate in a competition to find the best master’s theses in Europe within the area of language use, language policy and multilingualism.
Keynote speakers are Gerrit Jan Kootstra (RU Nijmegen) and Alena Witzlack-Makarevich (Hebrew University of Jerusalem). The deadline for abstracts is 14 December 2020.
The Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics is pleased to announce a new publication in the LOT Dissertation Series by Xander Vertegaal.
The annual lecture series of the Language and Hearing Center Amsterdam (LHCA) will be held online this year. On the 3rd of December, the lectures will be focused on accessible communication for people with hearing impairment.
Are you a PhD student looking for feedback on your current research project in order to enhance your research and prepare your work for publication? Make sure to sign up for the Research Discussion Groups (RDGs) during the upcoming LOT Winter School. Registration is open until the 7th of December.
The Dutch Annual Linguistics Day 2021 (DALD2021) will be held on Friday 29 January 2021. Because of the COVID-19 rules and guidelines, we have decided to keep the DALD fully online for the first time. But that doesn’t make it any less fun!
The Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics is pleased to announce a new publication in the LOT Dissertation Series by Timothy Gaved.
Laura Downing, Professor of African Languages at the University of Gothenburg and currently NIAS research fellow, is the guest speaker at the online ACLC seminar on Friday 27 November 2020 from 16:15 till 17:30.
Ben je bezig of van plan een voorstel te schrijven voor de LOT Populariseringsprijs 2020? Geef ons een seintje door een email te sturen naar: lot@uva.nl. Let op: de prijs is dit jaar bedoeld voor een nog niet gepubliceerd of gerealiseerd populariseringsinitiatief.
Young researchers often are at the forefront of scientific innovation, but don’t always have the time, network or financial means to translate those innovative insights into societal impact. NWO offers a helping hand. Each year, NWO hands out the Synergy Award for the most enticing, daring or compelling societal impact idea in the Social Sciences and the Humanities.
Mensen kunnen tekst beter onthouden op muziek, zo blijkt uit onderzoek van de gepromoveerde leerkracht Yke Schotanus. Vooral het talenonderwijs kan hiervan profiteren. “Het maakt het leren makkelijker én leuker”, aldus Schotanus, die zelf ook muziek gebruikt in het klaslokaal.
Menno Reijven, PhD student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Lecturer at the UvA, is the guest speaker at this online ACLC seminar on Friday 13 November 2020 from 16:15 till 17:30.
The Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics is pleased to announce a new publication in the LOT Dissertation Series by Sune Gregersen.
The upcoming Syntax Interface Lecture will take on November 2nd. We will host a talk by Marloes Oomen (Institut Jean Nicod, École Normale Supérieure) with the title “Verbal constructions in German Sign Language: A unified analysis in terms of agreement”.
The Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics is pleased to announce a new publication in the LOT Dissertation Series by Myrthe Coret-Bergstra.
The Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics is pleased to announce a new publication in the LOT Dissertation Series by Cesko Voeten.
The Dutch language as it is used in Belgium has always had some typically Belgian features, or, as many people would put it, ‘Flemish’ features in terms of vocabulary, pronunciation, diminutives, plurals, word order etc. For many decades, these differences had been labeled as ‘incorrect’ – By Miet Ooms
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