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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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.
Conference | Critical, ethical, and practical use of AI in the language classroom | Leiden University | 13 June 2024
On June 13th 2024, the Language Learning Resource Centre (Leiden University) is organizing a one-day conference on the topic of Critical, ethical, and practical use of AI in the language classroom. The keynote will be held by Esther van der Stappen (lector Digital Education, Avans University of Applied Sciences).
Registration open | L3 conference | 29-31 August 2024
We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for the 13th International Conference on Third Language Acquisition and Multilingualism, which will be held at the Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen, The Netherlands, August 29-31, 2024. The conference will be preceded by a doctoral workshop on August 28, 2024.
LOT Summer School 2024 | Registration deadline
Registration for the LOT Summer School 2024 is possible until 6 May 2024.
LOT 666 | Digital Tools for Sign Language Research
The Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics is pleased to announce a new publication in the LOT Dissertation Series by Manolis Fragkiadakis.
Career orientation programme | Free for LOT PhD candidates
Katja Lubina (LUCL) is organising a number of Career Orientation events, which are free for all registered LOT PhD Canddiates. The kick-off will take place on 6 may from 11:00 to 15:00 in Leiden.
Final #BreGroMMplus Lecture | Prof. Asli Özyurek, 26 April 2024 | 1.00pm
Prof. Asli Özyürek (MPI Nijmegen) will present her newest research results and ideas onsite in Groningen. The talk will be streamed online as well.
#BreGroMM+ offers workshops for everyone interested in multimodality research. A particular aim is to introduce Research Master and PhD students from the Netherlands to the context of multimodality and the ongoing activities in this field. LOT pays for their members’ travel costs!
Course description | LOT Summer School 2024
We would like to draw your attention to the addition of Sandy Barasa’s course description, entitled: Social media and digital media communication in societal contexts.
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.
Schultink Lecture Summer School 2024 | prof. dr. Birgit Alber
We are delighted to announce that the Schultink lecture during the LOT Summer School 2024 will be given by prof. dr. Birgit Alber (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy). The title of the lecture is: Crowdsourcing in language documentation – opportunities and challenges.
Registration open | Anéla/VIOT-Juniorendag 2024
The Juniorendag of Anéla and VIOT will take place on Friday 19 April 2024 at Radboud University (Nijmegen). BA and MA students, recent graduates, and PhD candidates can present their thesis or PhD research in the field of applied linguistics (language use, language acquisition, language teaching, language proficiency, or communication) in an informal atmosphere on the Juniorendag.
Registration open | Leiden Bielefeld Workshop on Comparative Syntax (LeiBieCos) | 23-24 May
We are happy to announce that the registration for the Leiden/Bielefeld Workshop on Comparative Syntax is open. The LeiBieCos will take place at Leiden University on 23 and 24 May 2024. The program includes a plenary talk by Maria Polinsky (University of Maryland) and two panel discussions: ‘Theoretical approaches to variation’ and ‘Methodology and resources’.
Final reminder | EMLAR XX 2024
Do you want to gain experience working with Praat, R, Eye-tracking, JASP, Bayesian Statistics and many other research methods? Come visit us at EMLAR!
Vacature | Universitair Docent Nederlandse Taalkunde | Universiteit Utrecht
De faculteit Geesteswetenschappen is op zoek naar een universitair docent op het gebied van de Nederlandse taalkunde.