News

New book on endangered language spoken in the highlands of Lima

We want to congratulate Luis Miguel on publishing Glosario Cultural Jaqaru: Lengua de los Andes de Lima, which offers an overview of Jaqaru’s cultural lexicon. Jaqaru is an endangered Aru language spoken in the highlands of Lima by the indigenous Jaqaru.

25 January 2023

Welcome Harriet

Grammar and Cognition is happy to welcome a new associate member: Harriet Yates.

28 November 2022

Welcome Luis Miguel

Grammar & Cognition welcomes a new postdoctoral researcher: Luis Miguel Rojas Berscia. Luis Miguel is currently working on a postdoc project studying morphosyntactic variation in Nimwèègs (the dialect of the city Nijmegen). He is also looking at language use and language attitudes towards Nimwèègs.

17 November 2022

Seventh INAR workshop takes place at Radboud University

We are happy to announce that the seventh workshop of the International Network of Address Research (INAR) will take place at Radboud University on 5–7 July 2023!

17 November 2022

Forms of address in multinational job advertisements

Some languages prefer to address people formally, others informally. What about the job ads of large multinationals recruiting in Dutch, Belgian Dutch, French, Spanish and German? Language scientists at the Centre for Language Studies (CLS) found that in German - known to be a formal language - there seems to be a shift from Sie to du. 'That knowledge is particularly relevant for intercultural corporate communication.'

2 November 2022

INAR 7 - Call for papers

We are happy to announce that the seventh workshop of the International Network of Address Research (INAR) will take place at Radboud University on 5–7 July 2023!

26 October 2022

Welcome Dalí and Thomas

Grammar and Cognition welcomes two new Honours students: Dalí Chirino and Thomas van der Leer. They will partake in a two-year Honours programme to gain additional research experience.

16 October 2022

Congratulations Harvey!

Grammar & Cognition is happy to announce that Harvey has successfully completed his Honours project on Dutch expressions that use the past tense, but refer to the present and the future.

10 October 2022

Optimal past tense in translations of a Spanish novel

How is the past tense in a Spanish novel translated into other languages? And how can similarities and differences be explained? Language researchers at Radboud University investigated this using the Spanish novelAsí empieza lo malo(Thus bad begins) by the recently deceased writer Javier Marías.

26 September 2022

Welcome Michelle and Elsa

Grammar and Cognition is happy to welcome a new PhD candidate, Michelle Suijkerbuijk, and student assistant, Elsa Opheij.

19 September 2022