Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication

The Metaphor Festival is an annual conference on the use of figurative language and other modes of figurative expression. This fourth edition will take place in Amsterdam. It offers an opportunity to present and ...

Dr Nivja de Jong, Senior University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics and the ICLON Graduate School of Teaching, is the guest speaker at this ACLC seminar. She will talk about 'Speaking fluency ...

Dr Rabia Ergin, postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, is the guest speaker at this ACLC seminar. The title and abstract of her talk will follow soon.

Kees Hengeveld, Professor of Theoretical Linguistics at the ACLC, has been elected as a member of the Academia Europaea.

Enoch Aboh, Professor of Learnability, has been appointed as the new director of the ACLC. As of 1 August he will be the successor of Paul Boersma, who was the ACLC director for five years.

Cindy van Boven has been awarded a PhD position in the highly competitive NWO PhDs in the Humanities programme, which she will carry out within ACLC. She will start her project in September 2019.