One of the tasks of UiL OTS is to offer a programme in linguistics to students who are planning to obtain a PhD degree in one of the institute's areas of research. Responsible for the coordination of that programme is the graduate programme supervisor. In addition to the research component which aims at completion of the doctoral dissertation within 4 years, the programme has an educational component comprising curricular and extra-curricular training activities. Each year five full-time stipends are available for successful applicants. In addition, the institute actively exploits the possibilities for externally funded stipends.

In 1997 UiL OTS started an International PhD Programme. Admissible are up to three graduate students from outside The Netherlands yearly. Applicants should have sufficient background to be able to finish their dissertation within three years. Excellent candidates may be awarded a (partial) grant. A brochure providing detailed information can be obtained from the UiL OTS administration.

The graduate programme is organised both at the level of the institute and at a national level.

• Institute Programme
• National Programme
• PhDs' Page

Regular PhD (Aio=research trainee) positions at UiL OTS start in principle on January 1st of each year. Selection usually takes place in May/June the year before (for an overview of this year's procedure, see the advertisement we used).

This year's procedure is advertised at the vacancies-page.

In addition to the regular PhD program UiL OTS has an International PhD program that offers stipends for a period of maximally two years to advanced students from abroad who wish to complete their dissertation research at UiL OTS. Arrangementrs will be made on an individual basis. If you are interested, please, contact us by e-mail (uil-ots@let.uu.nl).

If you wish to have an indication of the research possibilities our institute offers, you may consult our research program, or the following list of projects (with their summaries) which reflects current research interest of the faculty members who developed them.

Language Use
• Addressing and Convincing
• Complex sentences
• De verwoording van attitudes ten opzichte van teksten (Since this project is intended for a Dutch speaking researcher, no English version of the abstract is available.)
• Hoe belangrijk zijn prosodie en synchroniciteit voor gemedieerde communicatie?
• Question answering processes in attitude surveys
• Receptive multilingualism in Experts' intercultural Discourse

Phonology & Morphology
• Morphological creativity, cohering word-formation, and first language acquisition

Syntax & Semantics
• Lexical Economy
• Person-role / Case constraints in a cross-linguistic perspective
• Impersonal subjects: Morphosyntax and discourse
• Generative lexicons in different languages: Comparing (semi-)light verb constructions and collocations
• Anaphoric binding and morphological objects
• On the grammatical and discourse integration of appositive expressions
• Specificity as an effect of inflection and structure
• The fine structure of numeral expressions: a comparative-linguistic perspective
• The accusative case parameter

Language Development
• The acquisition of structural case: effects on binding, movement and semantic interpretation
• Capeverdian: a Portuguese Creole in contact with Dutch
• Comparative study of processing of universal quantification in SLI and impaired adult SLA
• Effects of Bilingualism on language acquisition
• Receptive multilingualism in Experts' intercultural Discourse

Phonetics
• Tempo variation in speech

Computational Linguistics & Logic
• Standard Lexical representation of multi-word expressions

Experimental Psycholinguistics
• Optimal design in language – Reference set computation and focus

The Noun Phrase: Diversity in Dutch design, and the design of diversity.

2 PhD positions and 1 Postdoc position are advertised for Prof. N. Corver's Noun Phrase project. Click here for a description of that project.