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.
Petition for Inclusion of the Indigenous Languages of the Amazon
/in News /by JanacyIndigenous people living in the Amazon basin are more and more at risk of losing their unique culture and language. Please sign the petition to safeguard language.
Summer School Analysing Classroom Interactions | University of Groningen
/in News /by JanacyFrom the 8 to 12 July 2019, Faculty of Behavioral and Social Sciences and the Faculty of Arts of the University of Groningen join their vast research expertise in educational interactions to offer the Summer School Analyzing Classroom Interactions (ACI).
LOT Summerschool Registration to Open on 8th of April
/in LOT News, News /by JanacyLOT is pleased to announce the registration of the Summerschool 2019 will open next Monday, on the 8th of April.
ACLC Seminar | Dr Tom Lentz (UvA)
/in News /by Brigit van der PasDr Tom Lentz (ILLC, UvA) is the guest speaker at this ACLC seminar on Friday 12 April 2019 at 16.15.
Conservatieve Politici Gebruiken Eenvoudige Taal
/in News /by JanacyProgressieve politici gebruiken complexere zinnen dan conservatieve politici. Dat blijkt uit een analyse van ruim 380 duizend politieke speeches uit tien Europese landen.
UU Humanities Graduate Conference 2019 | What’s the Point? Impact and the Future of the Humanities
/in News /by JanacyThe Utrecht University Humanities Graduate Conference 2019, What’s the Point? Impact and the Future of the Humanities, will take place on Thursday 11th and Friday 12th April 2019.
Call for Papers | Multilingualism in Education and Society
/in News /by JanacyEvery year Anéla organizes a conference where members and other interested parties meet and present research on a specific topic. This year’s conference takes place on Friday October 18th at the Hogeschool Utrecht (HU).
Syntax Interface Lecture by Bert Le Bruyn | April 4th
/in News /by JanacyThe upcoming Syntax Interface Lecture will take place on Thursday, April 4th. We will host a talk by Bert Le Bruyn (Utrecht University) with the title “Translation Mining: definiteness in German and Mandarin”.
Summer School in Languages and Linguistics | July 22nd – August 2nd 2019
/in News /by JanacyThe Leiden Summer School in Languages and Linguistics offers a varied program of specialised courses in fields such as Chinese, Germanic, Indo-European, Iranian, and Semitic languages and linguistics as well as a number of introductory linguistic courses.
Workshop on Infant-directed Speech in Early Language Acquisition| 8 April 2019
/in News /by JanacyOn Monday, 8 April (at 16:15), Mengru Han (Utrecht University) will defend her dissertation The role of prosodic input in word learning: A cross-linguistic investigation of Dutch and Mandarin Chinese infant-directed speech.
Conference on Multilingualism 2019 | 1st – 3rd September 2019
/in News /by JanacyThe next Conference on Multilingualism 2019 (COM2019) will be hosted by the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL) at Leiden University (The Netherlands) from September 1st until September 3rd 2019.
5 April 2019 | Sociolinguistics Circle Utrecht
/in News /by JanacyThe Sociolinguistics Circle is a group of Dutch and Flemish sociolinguists whose main purpose is to organise an annual conference day.
ESSLLI 2020 | Call for Course and Workshop Proposals
/in News /by JanacyUnder the auspices of FoLLI the European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information (ESSLLI) is organized every year in a different European country. It takes place over two weeks in the European Summer, hosts approximately 50 different courses at both the introductory and advanced levels, attracting around 400 participants each year from all the world.
PhD Position (0.6 fte) in Linguistics
/in News /by JanacyThe Institute for German Studies at the University of Oldenburg is looking for a PhD student who will work on the acoustic realization of vowels in the research project “Acoustic indicators of language dominance in bilingual speakers of High and Low German in East Frisia” (funded by the German Research Foundation).
Deadline Extension for the ECA Summer School (15th of March)
/in News /by JanacyIf you are a PhD student or post-doc, please consider attending the summer school, which is the ideal complement to participation at ECA.