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LiME-lecture: Martin Kroon

LiME is delighted to announce a new installment in the LiME-lectures series:

• 26 February 2024: Martin Kroon Towards the automatic detection of syntactic differences

LiME-lecture: Karen De Clercq

LiME is delighted to announce a new installment in the LiME-lectures series:

• 29 January 2024: Karen De Clercq Negation, TAM, and Suppletion

LiME-lecture: Bart Jacobs

LiME is delighted to announce a new installment in the LiME-lectures series:

• 18 December 2023: Bart Jacobs Dutch‐Lexicon Creoles: State of the Art

LiME-lecture: Alan Cienki

LiME is delighted to announce a new installment in the LiME-lectures series:

• 20 November 2023: Alan Cienki Gesture and semantics?

Factors of language change. A symposium in honor of Frans Hinskens

On the occasion of his retirement, the Meertens Institute treats prof. dr. Frans Hinskens to a one-day symposium entitled Factors of Language Change.

LiME-lecture: Cefas van Rossem

LiME is delighted to announce a new installment in the LiME-lectures series:

• 16 October 2023: Cefas van Rossem And then there was Carriolsch! A study of the earliest stages of Virgin Islands Dutch Creole

Cancelled: LiME-lecture by Steven Gilbers

LiME-lecture: Steven Gilbers

LiME is delighted to announce a new installment in the LiME-lectures series:

• 26 June 2023: Steven Gilbers Regional variation in African-American English speech and rap

LiME-lecture: Anne-Sophie Ghyselen

LiME is delighted to announce a new installment in the LiME-lectures series:

• 22 May 2023: Anne-Sophie Ghyselen Coherence in spoken Belgian and Surinamese Dutch: An exploratory study
  

LiME-lecture: Rob Truswell

LiME is delighted to announce a new installment in the LiME-lectures series:

• 15 May 2023: Rob Truswell Superset grammars and failed changes
  

Sociolinguistics Circle 2023: program

The program for the 2023 meeting of the Sociolinguistics Circle is out; you can find it on the conference website.

LiME-lecture: Eline Zenner

LiME is delighted to announce a new installment in the LiME-lectures series:

• 20 March 2023: Eline Zenner Social roles and language variation in acquisition

LiME-lecture: Jenny Culbertson

LiME is delighted to announce a new installment in the LiME-lectures series:

• 13 February 2023: Jenny Culbertson Population-level variation in word and morpheme order is driven by individual-level cognitive biases

LiME-lecture: Christoph Purschke

LiME is delighted to announce the second installment in the LiME-lectures series:

• 12 December 2022: Christoph Purschke map(NLP, LTZ) – Mapping Luxembourgish in the digital domain

Sociolinguistics Circle 2023: first call for papers

LiME is proud to host the 2023 installment of the Sociolinguistics Circle on 31 March 2023.

The submission deadline for abstracts is January 12, 2023.

Read the complete call for papers on the conference webpage.