LUCL Newsletter - November 2009

The November LUCL newsletter will give you a brief overview of current affairs. If you would like to include some issue in the next newsletter, please let the LUCL office know

Congratulations

LUCL is very pleased to announce that two VENIs have been awarded:
Marion Elenbaas, on 'The dynamics of light verbs in the history of West Germanic languages'
Willemijn Heeren, on 'Prosody in whispered speech: retrieving alternative cues to pitch’
Congratulations to both Marion and Willemijn!

Also congratulations to our Opleiding Engels, as it has been selected as the best English programme of all Dutch universities for the 8th time! (source: Elsevier)


Councils and committees

Advisory Council
The next meeting is scheduled for 13 November, during which the Faculty Board will have its bi-annual meeting with the Adviesraad.

Institute Council
The Institute Council will meet again on Friday 18 December: Christmas drinks!

PhD Defences

3 November: Marius Doornenbal, 'A grammar of Bantawa: Grammar, paradigm tables, glossary and texts of a Rai language of Eastern Nepal'
Promotor: Geert Booij / Co-promotor: Crit Cremers

24 November: Tolemariam Fufa, 'A Typology of Verbal Derivation in Ethiopian Afro-Asiatic Languages'
Promotor: Maarten Mous

10 December: Kristina Riedel, 'The syntax of object marking in Sambaa: A comparative Bantu perspective'
Promotores: Lisa Cheng and Thilo Schadeberg

17 December: Zaira Khalilova, 'A grammar of Khwarshi'
Promotores: Frits Kortlandt and Bernard Comrie (Max Planck, Leipzig)

Personnel

We would like to welcome:
Tyler Peterson - has started on 15 October as a Postdoc researcher on the NWO Evidentiality project of Willem Adelaar and Johan Rooryck. Tyler's office will be 1166-205a.
Karene Sanchez - will be given a permanent Docent position in the French Department as of 1 December.
Antoinette Schapper - will start officially on 1 December as a Postdoc researcher on the EuroBABEL project of Marian Klamer. Antoinette is from Australia and won't be able to arrive in Leiden before 1 January 2010.

The following PhD student has found a new position:
Assimakis Tseronis - has been granted a Postdoc position for 20 months starting 1 December, in the Laboratory of Communication and Politics of the CNRS in Paris to identify and describe among other things the argumentative markers in a corpus of French texts from debates on the controversies regarding nanotechnology and biosciences.

We wish all of you a lot of success in your new position!

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'Buitenpromovendi'
The following external PhD student has een admitted to the Institute by the LUCL selection committee:
Ibrahima Cisse - promotor: Maarten Mous and Nathalie Valle, Universiteit Grenoble (co-tutelle)
Research subject: Language Acquisition of Fulfulde and Bambare (Mali)

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Guests
Dr. Ula Remmer will be here from October to December, as a guest of Sasha Lubotsky. Ula is from University of Zürich.
Dr. Letitia Pablos will be a visiting Postdoc researcher at LUCL. She is doing research in psycholinguistics with Jenny Doetjes and Lisa Cheng.
Gabriela Brozba is a visiting PhD student from 19 October to June next year, to work under the supervision of Colin Ewen (subject of her research: Phonology of Englishes)
Ileana Chersan is a visiting PhD student at LUCL from 30 October to June 2010, to work under the supervision of Jenny Doetjes (her research subject is: Languages and Cultural Identities, at the University of Bucharest)

Metis

LUCL urgently requests you to complete your publication list in Personal Metis. So far, only a few members have done so. If your publications are not listed in Personal Metis, they will not be taken into consideration for the official Visitatie 2010. For more information, see the Metis website or contact Marjana Rhebergen at IFZ, tel 3107.

Multifunctionals

Personal cards for the multifunctionals (copy machines) are available from the LUCL office. Guests and student assistants can still copy with a Xafax card on the copy machine in 1163, ground floor.

Grants

European Grants
On behalf of Arie Verhagen we would like to draw your attention to the following website for information on European grants:
Tempus IV (2007-2013) 
Erasmus Mundus
The Jean Monnet Programme
If you have any specific questions about these programmes, please contact Arie Verhagen or Karin Aalderink.


Deadlines NWO grants
Please note the following LUCL deadlines for grant proposals:
15 November: LUCL deadline for draft VENI proposal, to be sent to Faculty's Committee Tweede Geldstroom 8 December: LUCL deadline for final VENI or draft VIDI proposal, to be sent to Faculty's Committee Tweede Geldstroom


Huygens grants
A meeting on the Huygens Talent Programme will take place on 5 November in Utrecht. Registration information can be found on this page, or contact Cindy Schotte, scholarship coordinator at the International Office (c.schotte@sea.leidenuniv.nl)

Lectures and conferences

3 November: prof. B. Bickel (Leipzig University) on 'Linguistic universals and hidden diversity'
13 November: Ulla Remmer (Zurich University) on ' The Naming of Women in Indo-European'
25 November: Syntax Circle: prof. Ian Roberts (University of Cambridge) on 'A syntactic universal and its consequence'
27 November: LUCL Colloquium: Gijsbert Rutten, Björn Köhnlein and Alexander Schwager
18 December: LUCL Colloquium: prof. B. Comrie (Max Planck Institute, Leipzig) on the typology of numerals, to be followed by LUCL Christmas Drinks
29 January 2010: LUCL will host the Anéla Juniorendag

Apart from the lectures mentioned above, there are the regular meetings of the many reading and discussion groups, such as the Friday afternoon lectures, Syntax circle, Language and Cognition Group meetings. For a complete overview, see This month at LUCL.

Sinterklaas

Looking for a Sinterklaas present? 'Het Chinees en het Nederlands zijn eigenlijk hetzelfde' by Rint Sybesma has just been published (Houten: Uitgeverij het Spectrum, 2009).

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