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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?

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