Sharing Knowledge
LOT actively promotes sharing of knowledge between academics and a professional and general public. As these actions target a Dutch audience, most of these outreach activities are carried out in Dutch.
Schultink Lecture
During every LOT school, one of the international instructors delivers the Schultink Lecture. The lecture is named after Henk Schultink (1924-2017), who played a central role in founding LOT.
NEMO Kennislink
The member institutes of LOT jointly finance popular science articles on Linguistics at the NEMO Kennislink website. This website is dedicated to making results of scientific research accessible to the lay audience, and is especially popular with students from secondary schools.
Populariseringprijs
Every year LOT awards a prize for a product that makes results of linguistics research accessible for a broad audience. The jury consists of linguist researchers and other language professionals, such as journalists, editors, and bloggers. The product may take any kind of shape: books, journals, websites, radio or TV programs, course materials, articles, etc. The prize is awarded during the Grote Taaldag (see below).
The regulations for the prize (in Dutch), can be found in a separate document. An overview of all awardees can be found here.
De Grote Taaldag
De Grote Taaldag is organised by LOT in cooperation with the Linguistics Association of the Netherlands (AVT) and the Dutch Association for Applied Linguistics (Anéla). This day combines the AVT TIN-dag (Linguistics-in-the-Netherlands day), and the Anéla TTiN-dag (Applied-Linguistics-in-the-Netherlands day), with the Taalgala (Language-Gala). During the Taalgala the AVT/Anéla Dissertation Prize and the LOT-Popularisation prize are awarded.
Other activities
Other outreach activities in The Netherlands that target language are:
The Taalportaal (Language portal), which offers scientific grammars of Dutch, Frisian, and Afrikaans (in English).
Scientific mission of LOT
The aim of LOT is to create a scientific community in which this research can be optimally pursued, and to educate the next generation of researchers with an open mind toward new disciplinary and interdisciplinary developments, theoretical and methodological alternatives, and possible applications.
LOT stimulates new initiatives and developments in research, and provides a national forum to further communication between the participating institutes with a view to short- and long-term collaboration.
LOT School Series
LOT was officially established in June 1994 by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. The LOT school series soon acquired an international reputation as a result of inviting well-known linguists to teach at the schools.
The research by the LOT institutes covers all major areas of linguistics, and exploits a wide range of methodological tools and theoretical frameworks.
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LOT Dissertations Webshop
LOT has a small publishing component: the LOT Dissertation Series. This is meant for PhD students who work at a LOT institute.
Download Free Books or order online at the LOT Publications Webshop