Wu Peng, Professor of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Jiangsu University/ILIAS, is the guest speaker at this ACLC seminar. He will talk about "The uncompromising confrontational style of the spokespersons’ ...

This workshop focuses explicitly on the implications of the knowledge of code-switching/mixing (i.e., the ability to mix more than one language in a sentence or an utterance) for the theory of language, acquisition, ...

Hongmei Fang, ACLC PhD candidate, will defend her dissertation entitled 'Sentence-final particles in Mandarin', under the supervision of Kees Hengeveld and Hella Olbertz.

Holger Dießel, Professor of English Linguistics at Friedrich Schiller University Jena, is the guest speaker at this ACLC seminar. The title of his talk is 'Towards a dynamic network theory of grammar'. This lecture ...

During the ACLC Research Group Fair proposals for new ACLC thematic Research Groups will be presented.

Sandro Sessarego, Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin and currently NIAS research fellow, is the guest speaker at this ACLC seminar. He will talk about 'A Legal Approach to ...

First workshop of SMART CS in 2021 will be held by Dr Eva van Lier, Dr Rik van Gijn, Dr Pegah Faghiri, and Katherine Walker. The workshop will also host keynote speakers Alena Witzlack-Makarevich (Hebrew University ...

Marieke Schouwstra, Assistant Professor in cognitive science and artificial intelligence at the ILLC, UvA, is the guest speaker at this ACLC seminar. Her talk will be about 'Semantic conditioning and regularity: ...

Jelke Bloem, ACLC PhD candidate, will defend his dissertation 'Processing verb clusters', under the supervision of Fred Weerman and Arjen Versloot.

For these difficult times we have added a Bounce Back workshop to our PhD skills programme. The Bounce Back workshop offers practical tools to boost your resilience in uncertain times. Resilience is the ability to ...

Ulrika Klomp, ACLC PhD candidate, will defend the dissertation 'A descriptive grammar of Sign Language of the Netherlands', under the supervision of Roland Pfau and Beppie van den Bogaerde.

Christopher Agbedo, Professor of Sociolinguistics at the University of Nigeria and currently NIAS research fellow, is the guest speaker at this ACLC seminar. He will talk about 'How to do nothing with words, ...

Klaas Seinhorst, ACLC PhD candidate, will defend his dissertation 'The complexity and learnability of phonological patterns: simulations, experiments, typology', under the supervision of Silke Hamann and Paul Boersma.

On the occasion of Klaas Seinhorst's defense (on 19 Feb), a workshop has been organised on 'Learnability and Typology'.

Cun Zhang, PhD candidate at Northeast Normal University and guest researcher at the ACLC in 2019-2020, and Charles Forceville, Associate Professor at the UvA, are the guest speakers at this ACLC seminar with the ...

The conference Talking law in the EU is an interdisciplinary event organised as a collaboration between the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Humanities and will bring together experts from a variety of corners to ...

Klaske van Sluis, ACLC PhD candidate, will defend the dissertation 'Total laryngectomy: exploring voice outcomes and functional issues', under the supervision of Michiel van den Brekel and Paul Boersma and ...

New members of the Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication present their research during the [N]OAP DAG 2020 (‘Nieuw, Oud Amsterdams Peil’).

Laura Downing, Professor of African Languages at the University of Gothenburg and currently NIAS research fellow, is the guest speaker at this ACLC seminar. The title of her talk is 'Testing typologies of consonant ...

Menno Reijven, PhD student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Lecturer at the UvA, is the guest speaker at this ACLC seminar. The title of his talk is 'Navigating the entertainment-political interview: ...