The Advanced Academic Writing course is designed for PhD students who write their dissertation in English. The course addresses different aspects of the writing process, such as becoming aware of disciplinary ...

Sara Petrollino, University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics, is the guest speaker at this Online ACLC seminar. She will talk about 'The Hamar cattle model: implications for visual semantics ...

Reconnect with fellow ABC members and other Amsterdam based brain and cognition researchers virtually at this year's online ABC Networking Event

ACLC members are invited to attend an information meeting on Research Data Management.

Algorithms have become significant shapers of the way sexuality is searched for and found on social media. In the online world, behavioral data speak for a person, instead of a person speaking for him/herself ...

Camiel Hamans, ACLC PhD candidate, will defend his dissertation 'Borderline cases in morphology. A study in language change', under the supervision of Olga Fischer and Norval Smith.

Tessa Verhoef, assistant professor in the Media Technology program at Leiden University, is the guest speaker at this online ACLC seminar. Her talk will be about 'Cognitive biases and cultural evolution in space-time ...

Kiki Renardel de Lavalette, ACLC PhD candidate, will defend her dissertation 'Resistance to metaphor in parliamentary debates', under the supervision of Corina Andone, Christian Burgers and Gerard Steen.

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, ...