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De Plantagedialogen – 11 december
Wat: De Plantagedialogen Wanneer: 11 december 2022, 15:00 uur tot 17:30 uur Waar: Wibar, Leiden De plantagedialogen brengen ons naar de plantages van het ...
Morphology Days in the Low Countries starts today at 13:00hrs via Teams
Beste allen, Vandaag gaan de Morfologiedagen / Morphology Days in the Low Countries van start met een sessie over gender in de morfologie. Deze sessie zal ...
‘Yu no man broko mi’ – over het Eurovisiesongfestivallied van Jeangu Macrooy
Begin maart presenteerde de zanger Jeangu Macrooy zijn inzending voor het Eurovisie Songfestival aan het Nederlandse publiek. Het lied is getiteld ‘Birth ...
Vitaliteit Papiaments in NL redelijk hoog (artikel Antilliaans Dagblad)
Hoewel onderzoeken elkaar mogelijk wat tegenspreken is de conclusie van taalwetenschapper Ellen-Petra Kester dat de vitaliteit van het Papiaments in ...
Call for papers and posters for Morfologiedagen – Morphology Days in the Netherlands is out!
MORPHOLOGY DAYS IN THE LOW COUNTRIES (MiLC 2020) – CALL FOR PAPERS We are happy to announce that Morphology Days in the Low Countries (MiLC 2020) ...
Publication: Community Based Research in Language Policy and Planning
Community Based Research in Language Policy and Planning The Language of Instruction in Education in Sint Eustatius Authors: Faraclas, Nicholas ...
Article in Trouw about language policy in Dutch Caribbean
One of the national newspapers recently published an article about the spectacular changes at the Gwendoline van Putten school for secondary education in ...
Going Romance 2018
The Utrecht institute of Linguistics (UiL-OTS) will organize Going Romance 2018 on December 11-14, 2018 Invited speakers: Silvio Cruschina (Universität ...
Sociolinguistics Circle 5 April, 2019 – Call for papers
We are happy to announce the sixth edition of the Sociolinguistics Circle conference which will be held at Utrecht University, on 5 April 2019. The ...
Sociolinguistics Circle 5 April, 2019 – Call for papers
We are happy to announce the sixth edition of the Sociolinguistics Circle conference which will be held at Utrecht University, on 5 April 2019. The ...
Workshop and Defense Franca Wesseling – There is more: Variation in Expletive constructions in Dutch
We are happy to announce that Franca Wesseling will defend her dissertation titled There is more: Variation in expletive constructions in Dutch on Tuesday, ...
‘talking birds’
In two recently published paper (Engesser et al. 2016 in PNAS and Suzuki et al. 2016 in Nat Comm) biologists have claimed that songbirds are able to ...
Article on webapp in teacher’s journal
Dear all, Last week, an article appeared that I wrote together with my partners from the Stichting Leerplanontwikkeling (SLO) and Institute for Educational ...
Improvements to webapp ‘Moedertaal in NT2’
Dear colleagues, Last year, I received two starting grants for the project ‘Moedertaal in NT2’ (MoedINT2). The project involves the development of an app ...
Jacomine Nortier (2018): Youth Languages
Here is my third (and last?) publication in 2018: Jacomine Nortier. (2018). Youth Languages. In: Arne Ziegler (ed. in cooperation with Melanie Lenzhofer ...
Talk Marco Budassi, Old Irish information structure
Dear language structure list-members, A guest I am hosting is giving a talk next Wednesday (20 June) on Old Irish information structure. The abstract and ...
Paper on Old Irish verbal agreement with conjoined subjects
Dear all, A couple years ago Elliott Lash (NUI Maynooth) and I presented a paper to the group on Old Irish verbal agreement with conjoined subjects. The ...
Irina van Aalst & Jacomine Nortier (2018): Youth, language and urban public space: Where geography and linguistics meet. Dutch journal of Applied Linguistics 7(1). 68-88
This paper presents an interdisciplinary study on the interface between young people, their language use, group belonging and urban space. Relevant ...
Jacomine Nortier. Language and identity practices among multilingual Western European youths. Language & Linguistics Compass. May 2018
Nortier J. Language and identity practices among multilingual Western European youths. Lang Linguist Compass. 2018;12:e12278. ...
Language policy in Italy
Dear all, I wrote an article about English as a language for reseach on the main Italian newspaper yesterday. The article was co-authored by prof. Elena ...
Language contact and change in Ghana
Doctor Solace Yankson (KNUST/Radboud University of Nijmegen) succesfully defended her dissertation titled ‘Language contact and change in ...
Fyi: SeDyL, Paris
This is how the people at SeDyL (Structure et Dynamique des Langues, CNRS) in Paris prepare themselves for the upcoming ‘visitatie’. They have ...
Advances in Italian Dialectology
The volume Advances in Italian Dialectology. Sketches of Italo-Romance grammars, edited by Roberta D’Alessandro and Diego Pescarini, has just been ...
Article on NRC on language policy in The Netherlands
Dear colleagues, Our report Talen voor Nederland, about language policy in the Netherlands, has just been published. You can find it here. More information ...
Heidi Klockmann nominated for the AVT-ANELA dissertation prize
Heidi Klockmann is nominated for the AVT-anela dissertation prize. The prize will be awarde during the Grote Taaldag tomorrow!! Fingers crossed for Heidi. ...
Come see members of our group present their work at tomorrow’s language science day!
The Challenges of Researching Linguistic Diversity Programme: The 2018 edition of the Language Sciences Day will focus on the study of linguistic ...
A review (by Anne-France Pinget) of the Atlas van de Nederlandse Taal
A review (by Anne-France Pinget) of the Atlas van de Nederlandse Taal has been published in Taal en Tongval 69 (2), p. 263-266.
Jan Casalicchio at Variación Lingüistica
On December 19th, Jan Casalicchio presented his work on the variation in gerunds and infinities in Spanish and Italian at the Seminars of Linguistic ...
Special Issue ‘The biology of language’
This special issue of Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews arose out of an Academy Colloquium, ‘The Biology of Language,’ held in the ‘Trippenhuis’, ...
The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Syntax
A fully revised and updated, this second edition of offers a substantive collection of syntactic case studies of syntactic phenomena. A ‘case’ is a ...
ELS preparatory grant for ‘Moedertaal in NT2’
I am very happy to announce that my project ‘Moedertaal in NT2’ has been awarded a prepatory grant of €20.000 by focus area Education for ...
Geographic Information Systems and Social Networks
On Thursday 30 November, Roberta will give a talk at the workshop Geographic Information Systems and Social Networks. Consequences for the study of ...
Defense Moragh Gordon
Promotie Mo Gordon: de ontwikkeling van Standaardengels in Bristol (1400-1700) Op 21 november verdedigde Mo Gordon (Language structure: variation and ...
MA-Neerlandistiek: Taalvariatie in het Nederlands: praktijk en beleid
UitnodigingSymposiumTaalvariatieinhetNederlands Taalkunde in de praktijk Bomen tekenen, LF-formules maken, uitvogelen wat het subject of object van ...
Jacomine Nortier: Gender-related online metalinguistic comments on Straattaal and Moroccan Flavored Dutch in the Moroccan heritage community in the Netherlands
Abstract: Straattaal (‘street language’) used by members of various ethnic groups contains linguistic material from English and several heritage ...
World Science Forum
Roberta will attend the World Science Forum on Science for Peace in Jordan, in November. She will be giving a short talk on research integrity at the ...
Existentials and Locatives in Romance Dialects of Italy
The monograph “Existentials and Locatives in Romance Dialects of Italy” Francesco Ciconte referred to in his talk on Monday is available as an ...
Research Group at Drongo-festival
Several members of the research group will be present at the Drongo-festival next week Friday and Saturday (29-20 september)! Come and see among many ...
New book: Language and Slavery
The book ‘Language and Slavery. A social and linguistic history of the Suriname Creoles’ by Jacques Arends (1952-2005) is now available. It is ...
NWA Startimpuls for ‘Moedertaal in NT2’
I am very pleased to tell you that the project ‘Moedertaal in NT2 (MoedINT2)’ has been awarded a ‘Startimpuls’ grant by the ...
PhD-defense and workshop Heidi Klockmann
Defense & Workshop Heidi Klockmann (28 June 2017) Wednesday, June 28th (2017) at 10.30 sharp, Heidi Klockmann will be defending her dissertation ...
PhD-defense and workshop Erin Pretorius
We are very pleased to announce that Erin Pretorius will be defending her dissertation entitled Spelling Out P: A Unified Syntax of Afrikaans ...
Workshop on Variation and Universals in Language
The workshop Variation and universals in language. The implications of typological evidence for formal grammar will take place in Crecchio, Abruzzo, Italy, ...
Defense Robbert van Sluijs
Robbert van Sluijs will defend his dissertation titled ‘Variation and change in Virgin Islands Dutch Creole’ on May 11 in the aula of the ...
4 new papers by Eric Reuland
Language and imagination: Evolutionary explorations (DOI) Why is reflexivity so special? Understanding the world of reflexives (DOI) What structural ...
Reflexivization in Afrikaans: The case of locally bound pronouns
Talk at Debrecen workshop on pronouns, February 25, 2017; Martin Everaert & Dorkas Arnold
Agreement Reversal in Munda Languages: An Interplay of Functional/Thematic and Syntactic Criteria
Talk presented at International Seminar on Munda Languages at Deccan College, Puna, India; Kārumūri V. Subbārāo, Hyderabad University; Mayuri Dilip, IIT ...
Special issue Studia Linguistica, april 2017
The World of Reflexives: Universal Principles and a Typology of Variation -Introduction; Alexis Dimitriadis, Martin Everaert & Eric Reuland – Why ...
Workshop on Historical Literary Variation as a Mirror for Language Change
Beste collega’s, Via deze e-mail nodigen we u graag uit voor de workshop Historical Literary Variation as a Mirror for Language Change op ...
The verbal domain
The Verbal Domain, the book I edited with Irene Franco and Ángel Gallego, is out. The book investigates the nature and structure of the verbal domain and ...