This MA course (Tuesdays, 3.15-5  PM) starts this week, February 7. See the Leiden University study guide and Blackboard-site for more information.

As a part of the 11th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference in Xi’an (China), Jordan Zlatev (Lund University) and I organized a theme session “Language Evolution: Biological, cultural and bio-cultural” on July 12, 2011 (see information on the conference website).

Arie at ICLC 11

Here are the slides of my introductory talk on “Cognitive Evolutionary Linguistics” (pdf) and my paper on conventionality in the perspective of “Tinbergen ’s 4 why’s” (pdf).

Check this site for further developments (follow up).

Click here for the abstract of my lecture at the 3rd Shanghai Summer School on Cognitive Linguistics, on July 7, 2011.

Will be in China for ICLC-11 in Xi’an, from July 11-17. Organizing the theme session “Language Evolution: Biological, Cultural and Bio-Cultural”, together with Jordan Zlatev.

Before that, from July 4-9, a workshop and a pre-conference in Shanghai.

From 11-15 January 2010. See LOT Summer School course details.