Research facilities
Heritage Linguistics Lab
- Application
- Platform for research about heritage languages spoken in the Netherlands
- Contact
- Rik van Gijn
The Research Lab for the Study of Heritage Languages of the Netherlands (HERLING) is a platform for research about heritage languages spoken in the Netherlands. With a focus on Turkish, Bahasa Indonesia, Spanish, Papiamento, Berber, Arabic and German, HERLING aims to bridge the gap between scientific research and language communities.
Europe is becoming increasingly diverse and the amount of languages used within national boundaries is also increasing. In the Netherlands there are about four million people who have a different language background and speak a heritage language at home. More children than before are now growing up acquiring another language in addition to Dutch.
Linguists Janet Grijzenhout, Maria del Carmen Parafita Couto and Deniz Tat founded HERLING to bring together linguists and speakers of different heritage languages in the Netherlands.
- Felix Ameka (Leiden University)
- Ad Backus (Tilburg University)
- Ivo Boers (University of Vigo)
- Leonie Cornips (Maastricht University and Meertens Instituut)
- M.Carmen Parafita Couto (Universida de Vigo, LVTC)
- Aone van Engelenhoven (Leiden University)
- Ellen-Petra Kester (Utrecht University)
- Maarten Kossmann (Leiden University)
- Luis López (University of Illinois at Chicago)
- Khalid Mourigh (Meertens Instituut)
- Natascha Müller (Bergiche Universität Wuppertal)
- Antje Muntendam (Florida State University)
- Michael Putnam (Penn State University)
- Jason Rothman (Lancaster University)
- Monika Schmid (University of Essex)
- Kutlay Yagmur (University of Tilburg)
- Mehmet S. Yavas (Florida International University)
- Alisa van de Haar (Leiden University)
- Bilingualism Research Laboratory, University of Illinois at Chicago
- Zentrum für Mehrsprachigkeit, Universität Konstanz
- Institut für Linguistik, Bergische Universität Wuppertal
- HELPING ‘Heritage-Bilingual Linguistic Proficiency In the Native Grammar’ , CASTL, Universitetet i Tromsø The Arctic University of Norway
As part of the Internship Linguistics or the Individual Project, we are looking for Ba, Ma or ResMa students with a background in Linguistics
interested in joining our team. We also welcome students from other universities interested in projects around multilingualism. Please note that internships are unpaid.
Please submit your application in English, consisting of a CV and cover letter of maximum 2 pages in a single PDF file, to e.van.gijn@hum.leidenuniv.nl. There is no deadline; the applications are considered as they are submitted.
If you are interested in writing a BA or MA thesis on a topic related to multilingualism, minority languages, heritage languages, please contact one of the members [insert link to herling team] to explore possibilities
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If you have any questions, would like to become an active or affiliated member or would like to discuss HERLING projects or potential collaborations, please contact us via this page.