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 has a small publishing component: the LOT Dissertation Series. This is meant for PhD students who work at a LOT institute.
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Talenswitch Joost Klein nothing new
In ‘Europapa’ van Joost Klein wordt volop geswitcht tussen talen. Deze talenwissel zie je ook in hiphop en jongerencultuur, maar kwam al voor in de middeleeuwen.
LOT 668 | Lexical tone in word activation
The Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics is pleased to announce a new publication in the LOT Dissertation Series by Qing Yang.
Utrecht Syntax Interface Lecture by Jairo Nunes | Thursday May 30, 2024
We’d like to inform you that the next Syntax Interface Lecture will take place on Thursday May 30 from 16:00 until 17:00 in our Syntax Interface Lectures team on MS Teams. We will host a talk by Jairo Nunes (University of São Paulo) titled ‘Phase Defectivity and Inherent Case in Brazilian Portuguese’
Reminder | LOT Ad-hoc Event Fund
Do you want to organise an event for RMA students and/or PhD researchers, and do you need financial help? LOT has launched a new fund to help realise such events: the LOT Ad-hoc Event Fund.
Call for papers 13th Conference on Frisian linguistics | Fryske Academy
The Frisian Academy (Fryske Akademy) organizes its annual meeting in October this year. The thirteenth Conference on Frisian linguistics will be of interest to anyone who actively or passively participates in Frisian linguistics: grammar, phonetics/phonology, onomastics, lexicology, sociolinguistics, historical linguistics.
Call for Papers: Exploring the Dark Side of Future Language Technologies | UCLouvain | 2-3 Sept. 2024
Our 4th annual conference will be held at UCLouvain (Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium) on 2-3 September 2024. This year’s theme is: ‘Exploring the Dark Side of Future Language Technologies: Linguistic (In)security, Ethics, and Privacy in the Human Machine Era’. The call for papers is now open, and we warmly encourage submissions from any eligible researcher or practitioner who is interested in exploring these timely topics.
Vacancy: Postdoctoral Research Associate Romance syntax/semantics | Newcastle University | Applications due 27 May
Newcastle University is seeking to appoint a second Postdoctoral Research Associate to join the Leverhulme Trust-funded project, ‘How autonomous is syntax? A case study of Romance causation and perception’.
Call for Papers | Limburg as a linguistic laboratory | 26-27 September | Genk, Belgium
LiME Meertens presents a two-day workshop devoted to language variation and change in the Belgian and Dutch provinces of Limburg. We have engaged invited speakers from different linguistic backgrounds, but we also invite 30 minute contributions which should zoom in on the workshop’s general topics, but which need not be restricted to the Limburg, or even to the Dutch language area.
Registration is closed | LOT Summer School 2024
It is no longer possible to register for the LOT Summer School 2024 in Leiden.
Registration Deadline | Leiden Bielefeld Workshop on Comparative Syntax (LeiBieCos) | 23-24 May
The deadline for the registration is Friday 10 May. Later registration (up to the day of the workshop itself) is also possible, but we will not be able to ensure catering for you in this case. Participation is also possible online in which case we ask you to register as well to be able to receive further information.
Mercator International Conference: Shaping Language Policy for Minority Languages and Multilingualism | Abstracts due 15 May
The aim of this conference is to provide a platform for and to stimulate critical discussions on policy development for minority languages and multilingualism in various contexts, from the home to education. We invite presentations that examine language policies, practices, ideologies, and attitudes at all levels (international, national, regional, societal, institutional, group, family, and individual).
2nd Linguistics Science Communication Day | Utrecht University | 28 June
On June 28th we organise the second Linguistics Communication day, themed: accessible communication (“toegankelijk communiceren”) – how to reach a broader audience. In two short, interactive lectures Liesbeth Smith (known from the theonlinescientist) and Jet Doedel (teacher, writer and editor) discuss this question. Each with their own focus.
Final Call for the Lingathon Registration! | Utrecht University | 5-7 July
Attention all LOT RMA, PhD students and alumni: Don’t miss out on the unique opportunity to participate in the Lingathon, an event with a linguistic twist on the traditional hackathon.
MODIFED: Morphosyntactic Dialect Feature Detection Workshop | Leiden University | 20-21 June
We are excited to announce a MODIFED workshop organized by the Re-examining Dialect Syntax Network (REEDs) and Leiden University Centre for Digital Humanities (LUCDH). This 2-day workshop will take place at Leiden University on Thursday 20 June and Friday 21 June 2024.
Two four-year PhD positions (100%) | Italian variationist sociolinguistics | KU Leuven, Belgium and University of Bern, Switzerland
The research group ‘Quantitative Lexicology and Variational Linguistics’ (QLVL) of the Faculty of Arts at KU Leuven and The Institute for Italian Language and Literature of the University of Bern (Linguistics division), invite applications for two four-year junior researcher-position on a new research project funded by the FWO & FNS Weave program(Flanders and Switzerland): MovIT – Moving Italian(s): Standard language change among moving Italians.