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Utrecht institute of Linguistics OTS

Organisation

Around 120 researchers are affiliated with UiL OTS. Permanent staff teaches in de departments of Modern Languages, Dutch and Media & Cultural Studies, and carries out their research in one of the research groups. Post-doctoral researchers and PhD students are usually embedded in projects. All research activities are supported by the UiL OTS secretary’s office.

Director & Staff

Academic Director UiL OTS:   prof. Henriëtte de Swart
Academic Director LOT:   prof. Frank Wijnen
MA/PhD Programme Coordinator:    dr. Maaike Schoorlemmer
LOT Programme Coordinator:   dr. Nina Versteeg
Secretary to the Board:   drs. Daphne van der Werf 

Research Support Staff

Dr. Alexis Dimitriadis
Drs. Maartje de Klerk
Dr. Iris Mulders
Dr. Ao Chen
Alex Manus, BSc
Drs. Martijn van der Klis
Mattis van den Bergh

Secretary’s Office

Yvonne van Adrichem
Mariëtte Bonenkamp (UiL OTS/LOT)
Nicole Tak (LOT)
Martien Camphuis

Research Council

Prof. Jos van Berkum
Prof. René Kager
Dr. Marjo van Koppen
Prof. Jan Odijk

Research Group Leaders

Psycholinguistics: parsing / aphasia /
    dyslexia:
  prof. Sergey Avrutin &
   prof. Frank Wijnen
Speech:    dr. Hugo Quené
Phonology and phonological (first and
    second language) acquisition:
  prof. René Kager
   prof. Wim Zonneveld
Language Acquisition: syntax-
   semantics-discourse:
  prof. Peter Coopmans
Bilingualism, multilingual language
    contact:
  dr. Ellen-Petra Kester
   dr. Jacomine Nortier
Cognitive and affective factors
   underlying discourse representation
   and processing:
  prof. Jos van Berkum & 
  
prof. Ted Sanders
Document design & communication:   prof. Leo Lentz
Language Learning:   prof. Huub van den Bergh
Language technology: language 
   resources:
  prof. Jan Odijk
Language & logic:   prof. Michael Moortgat
Semantic variation:   prof. Henriëtte de Swart
Interfaces: syntax-semantics-lexicon:   prof. Martin Everaert
Syntactic micro- en macrovariation:   prof. Norbert Corver
Historical linguistics:   prof. Peter Schrijver

Advisory board

Prof. Henk Verkuyl (Emeritus UU, chair)
Prof. Edward de Haan (University of Amsterdam)
Prof. Aafke Hulk (NIAS, Wassenaar)
Prof. Marian Joëls (UU)
Prof. Alice ter Meulen (Université de Genève)
Prof. Eric Reuland (UU)