Series

LUCL Colloquium - Series '25 - '26

This year's LUCL Colloquium series includes lectures by renowned experts from outside LUCL. It always takes place on Thursdays, 15:30-17:00, and will be followed by drinks in the common room. No registration needed, everyone is welcome!

Overview

Date	Location	Speaker
14 October 2025	Lipsius 2.27	Harald Hammarström (Uppsala Universitet)
21 November 2025	Herta Mohr 0.02	Gudrun Reijnierse (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
27 February 2026	Herta Mohr 0.02	Sho Tsuji (IRCN Babylab)
TBC	Herta Mohr 0.02	TBC
17 April 2026	Herta Mohr 0.02	Theresa Roth (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin)
TBC	Lipsius 2.28	TBC

Programme

14 Oct
Lecture | LUCL Colloquium How extensive is a grammar? Explorations in measuring grammatical descriptions Harald Hammarström
21 Nov
Lecture | LUCL Colloquium To metaphor or not to metaphor? How producers, products, and publics use figurative language in science communication Gudrun Reijnierse (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
10 Oct
Lecture | LUCL Colloquium - Series '24/'25 Discourse in contact: an areal study of wish formulae in Daghestan Nina Dobrushina
07 Nov
Lecture | LUCL Colloquium - Series '24/'25 Social interaction meets technology Wyke Stommel
12 Dec
Lecture | LUCL Colloquium - Series '24/'25 Engineering in language research Marc Brysbaert
20 Feb
Lecture | LUCL Colloquium - Series '24/'25 Nominalization: the view from syntactic approaches to word formation Artemis Alexiadou
24 Apr
Lecture | LUCL Colloquium - Series '24/'25 The dynamics of contact-induced change and language shift Lenore Grenoble
13 Mar
Lecture | LUCL Colloquium - Series '24/'25 Tonal reflexes of topic and focus in Heiban languages Sharon Rose