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LiME-lecture with Marjolein Talsma cancelled

Due to unforeseen circumstances we’ve had to cancel Marjolein Talsma’s upcoming LiME-lecture. It will be postponed to a later date.

LiME-lecture: Marjolein Talsma

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

• 15 December 2025: Marjolein W. Talsma Predicate decomposition and layered derivations: against the independent nature of little v

LiME-lecture: Chris De Wulf

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

• 24 November 2025: Chris De Wulf Historical-geographical and phonotactic variation of the Dutch diminutive suffix (16th – 19th century)

LiCLA 1: program & registration

LiME is happy to announce that the program for LiCLA 1 is now online and registration has been opened. We hope to welcome many of you to Amsterdam in September!

Afscheidssymposium Ton van der Wouden (in Dutch)

Op 12 september 2025 neemt Ton van der Wouden afscheid van het Meertens Instituut en deze dag zal uiteraard in het teken staan van partikels. De Dag van de Nederlandse partikels vindt plaats in Humanities Labs (Bushuis F0.01), Kloveniersburgwal 48, in Amsterdam.

LiME-lecture: Steven Gilbers

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

• 2 June 2025: Steven Gilbers Ambitionz az a ridah: 2Pac’s changing African-American English accent and rap flow

LiME-lecture: Hielke Vriesendorp

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

• 19 May 2025: Hielke Vriesendorp Increasing evidence for a “General Northern English”: Phonetic and grammatical dialect levelling in the North of England
  

LiME-lecture: Sjef Barbiers

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

• 12 May 2025: Sjef Barbiers Attributing Dimensions to Noun Modification

LiME-lecture: Astrid van Alem

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

• 28 April 2025: Astrid van Alem Is quantitative er a head? Insights from ellipsis interactions

LiCLA 1: Call for papers

LiME is proud to present the very first installment of the LiME Conference on Language Variation (LiCLA 1).

The submission deadline for abstracts is 30 May 2025.

Read the complete call for papers or go the conference webpage.

LiME-lecture: Marina Terkourafi

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

• 31 March 2025: Marina Terkourafi Does writing matter? Entanglements of materiality and writing in Cypriot Greek

LiME-lecture: Dirk Heylen

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

• 17 February 2025: Dirk Heylen Variations in Listening Behaviour and how to implement them in virtual humans

LiME-lecture: David Adger

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

• 10 February 2025: David Adger Mereological Syntax and Noun Phrase Islands