The Utrecht institute of Linguistics OTS is a research institute of the Faculty of Arts of Utrecht University. UiL OTS aims at developing scientific expertise in the systems underlying language, speech and their use. It sets out to achieve this goal by carrying out a research programme comprising fundamental research in these areas, by furthering the application of the insights thus obtained, and by offering a high-quality graduate programme to qualified PhD-students. UiL OTS participates in the national research schools LOT: the Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics and also participates in the graduate Network Logica.