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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

LiME-lecture: Dana Roemling

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

• 13 January 2025: Dana Roemling Learning from dialect classifiers: Detecting dialect features across different data sources

LiME-lecture: Sune Vork Steffensen

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

• 9 December 2024: Sune Vork Steffensen Ecolinguistics: Towards a Cognitive Ecology of Language

LiME-lecture with Steven Gilbers cancelled

Due to unforeseen health issues, we unfortunately have to cancel today’s LiME-lecture with Steven Gilbers. It will be rescheduled at a later date.

LiME-lecture: Steven Gilbers

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

• 16 September 2024: Steven Gilbers Ambitionz az a ridah: 2Pac’s changing African-American English accent and rap flow

LiME-lecture: Martijn Wieling

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

• 10 June 2024: Martijn Wieling How popularization and quantification may benefit language variation research(ers)

Limburg as a linguistic laboratory

LiME is proud to present a two-day workshop devoted to language variation and change in the Belgian and Dutch provinces of Limburg. More information can be found on the conference website.

LiME-lecture: Emmie Hoebens (in Dutch)

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

• 13 May 2024: Emmie Hoebens Namen als immateriële markeringen op de tijdloze Ooltkolonia mennonitische pelgrimstocht

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?