37.1457, Summer Schools: LOT Summer School 2026 (Hybrid) (Netherlands)

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Subject: 37.1457, Summer Schools: LOT Summer School 2026 (Hybrid) (Netherlands)

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Date: 15-Apr-2026
From: Tessa Arneri [LOT at uva.nl]
Subject: LOT Summer School 2026 (Hybrid)


LOT Summer School 2026 (Hybrid)

Host Institution: University of Groningen
Coordinating Institution: LOT - Netherlands Graduate School of
Linguistics
Website: https://lotschool.nl/events/lot-summer-school-2026/

Dates: 15-Jun-2026 - 26-Jun-2026
Location: Groningen, Netherlands

Minimum Education Level: On campus: PhD candidate, online: open to all

Focus: The courses on offer cover a wide range of subfields and
methods in linguistics and communication -- please refer to the
webpage for more information.
Description:
The two-week LOT Summer School offers a wide variety of eighteen
one-week courses on relevant topics in linguistics, taught by a mix of
researchers from The Netherlands and abroad. The levels of the course
range from intermediate (targeting PhD candidates who have general
linguistic knowledge) and advanced (targeting PhD candidate whose
project focuses on the topic). The summer school also includes social
activities such as a poster session, a plenary lecture, a career
event, and a dinner.
Courses on offer this summer are:
- Neurolinguistics (Vânia de Aguiar & Adrià Rofes)
- Linking cognition to typology: Theory, methods and inference (Carmen
Saldaña)
- Computational Cognitive Science of Communication (Marieke
Woensdregt)
- Discourse Coherence (Jet Hoek)
- Cognitive Modeling meets Computational Linguistics (Yevgen
Matusevych)
- Sign Languages (Adam Schembri)
- The psycholinguistics of discourse interpretation (Vinicius Macuch
Silva)
- Semantics (Emar Maier)
- The Social Structure of Variation in Spoken and Signed Languages
(Felicia Bisnath)
- Typical and atypical acquisition of morphosyntax (Atty Schouwenaars)
- Nanosyntax: Foundations and Empirical Case Studies (Karen De Clercq)
- Sound Change (Cesko Voeten)
- Linguistic, Cognitive and Educational Approaches to Bilingualism
(Mattia Zingaretti)
- Historical Linguistics (Lisa Gotthard)
- Variation and Change in Speech Sounds (Jiayin Gao)
- Bayesian regression for language scientists (Natalia Levshina)
- Bantu Morphosyntax: Patterns in Nominal Classification Systems
(Patrick Kanampiu)
- Modeling phonological variation with MaxEnt (Benjamin Storme)
Participants are advised to take no more than two courses per week.
Are you a PhD candidate (or postdoc, etc.) who is not affiliated with
one of the LOT insititutes, and would you like to join the programme?
You may choose to either join on campus for 150 euros per course or
online for 50 euros per course (NB not all courses are offered
online).
BA/MA/Undergrad students and all others (who are not affiliated with
LOT) may only join online.
Tuition: 150 or 50 euros
Tuition Explanation: Joining a course on campus costs 150 per course.
If you are present during all five two-hour sessions of a course
(Monday - Friday), you will receive a certificate with 1 EC per
completed course.
Joining a course online costs 50 euros per course. You will receive a
certificate of enrolment, but you will not be issues a certificate
with EC. More information about joining a course online can be found
on the website.

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Historical Linguistics
                     Semantics
                     Syntax
                     Typology

Registration Open until 18-May-2026

Contact Person: Tessa Arneri
                Email: lot at uva.nl

Apply on the web: https://lotschool.nl/events/lot-summer-school-2026/

Registration Instructions:
Please use the form on the webpage to register for the LOT Summer
School.



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