LOT – Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics

Landelijke Onderzoekschool Taalwetenschap

400 faculty members

300 PhD & RMa students

LOT is the Netherlands National Graduate School of Linguistics

LOT unites about 400 faculty members and 300 PhD and RMa students and provides a meeting point to further national and international communication for the benefit of linguistic research and education. Researchers from the participating institutes share knowledge, work together on theoretical and methodological matters, discuss their data and research in seminars and lecture series and in collaborations of various other kinds.

Below you will find recent news and announcements of events from the institutes participating in LOT and from LOT itself.

Register for the LOT Winter School 2020

Registration is open from 14 October until 6 December 2019.

News & Announcements

EMLAR 2019

EMLAR 2019 will take place from April 16th until April 18th at the University of Utrecht. Registration is possible until March 31st.

Dag van de Grammatica

January 30, 2019/in News /by Brigit van der Pas

Voor de tweede keer organiseren we, samen met de verenigingen Het WAP, VKL en NVSST, de Dag van de Grammatica, op zaterdag 16 maart 2019, in de OBA, te Amsterdam.

Boeken als Oefenmateriaal voor Empathie?

January 30, 2019/in News /by Janacy

Als we een boek lezen, zien we in ons hoofd vaak allerlei beelden voor ons. Recent onderzoek laat zien dat we beschrijvingen van acties sneller lezen dan waarnemingen van een romanpersonage.

LOT Dissertation 529: Is Textese a Threat to Traditional Literacy?

January 30, 2019/in Dissertations, News /by Janacy

LOT is pleased to announce number 529 in the LOT Dissertation Series by Lieke Verheijen.

De Veelzijdigheid van Dyslexie

January 30, 2019/in News /by Janacy

Nederlandse kinderen met dyslexie ondervinden niet alleen problemen bij het leren lezen en schrijven in hun moedertaal, maar ook in een vreemde taal. Toch gaat het leren van Engels ze iets makkelijker af dan gedacht. Dat blijkt uit onderzoek van Ellie van Setten die deze maand promoveerde aan de Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. Voor meer informatie zie: […]

ACLC Seminar 15 February 2019

January 30, 2019/in News /by Brigit van der Pas

On 15 February 2019 Professor Petra Schulz and Professor Jeffrey Lidz are guest speakers at the ACLC Seminar.

MPI Colloquium

January 29, 2019/in News /by Brigit van der Pas

Laurent Cohen (Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, Paris) will give the next MPI colloquium on Tuesday 12 February, 2019 at 3.45pm.

De Grote Taaldag 2019

January 29, 2019/in News /by Nikolai

The next Dutch Annual Linguistics Day, co-organised by AVT, LOT and Anéla, will be held on Saturday 2 February 2019.

Verwerken We Taal Genderneutraal?

January 29, 2019/in News /by Nikolai

In het Nederlands verwijst ‘zijn’ soms naar mannen, soms naar vrouwen of naar allebei.

Words Divide, Pictographs Unite: Pictograph Communication Technologies for People with an Intellectual Disability

LOT Dissertation 524: Words Divide, Pictographs Unite

January 29, 2019/in Dissertations, News /by Nikolai

LOT is pleased to announce number 524 in the LOT Dissertation Series by Leen Sevens.

Kennislink: Stappenplan Voor een Nieuwe Taal

October 19, 2018/in News /by Nikolai

Heb je wel eens overwogen om zelf een compleet nieuwe taal te bedenken?

Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics

LOT Winter School 2019

October 10, 2018/in LOT News, News /by Nikolai

The LOT Winter School 2019 is organized by LOT in collaboration with the Universiteit van Amsterdam.

January 13, 2020 - January 24, 2020
LOT Winter School 2020
The LOT Winter School 2020 will take place at Tilburg University from 13 to 24 January, 2020. Registration is open from 14 October until 6 December 2019.
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January 16, 2020
LOT Schultink Lecture | Theo Marinis
Theo Marinis, Professor of Multilingualism at the University of Konstanz and at the University of Reading, will give the Schultink lecture on 16 January 2020, 16;30-17:30, during the LOT Winter School 2020 in Tilburg.
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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

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