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THE DUTCH ANNUAL LINGUISTICS DAY

The Dutch Annual Linguistics Day (Grote Taaldag, 27 January 2026)▲

The Dutch Annual Linguistics Day is a joint initiative of the Dutch Linguistic Society (AVT), the Dutch Society for Applied Linguistics (Anéla) and the Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics (LOT). Traditionally, the Dutch Annual Linguistics Day is a day during which we meet up with all our colleagues from the Netherlands and Flanders and inform each other about current research in (applied) linguistics.

The next Dutch Annual Linguistics Day will be held on Tuesday 27 January 2026. As last year, this edition will be held at Utrecht University Science Park. We will organize a very varied program with lectures, coffee moments, the Language Gala, and an inspiring keynote by Jimmy van Rijt. As usual, the AVT/Anéla dissertation prize and the LOT popularization prize will be awarded at the end of the day, during the Language Gala.

Call for abstracts

If you are an AVT or Anéla member and if you wish to give a presentation at the Dutch Annual Linguistics Day, you can submit an up to 170 words abstract via this form until Sunday 7 December 2025. The presentation can last up to 20 minutes (with 5 minutes question time).

  • If you want to present in English, you can indicate this with an English title and summary instead of a Dutch one.
  • You are allowed to submit a maximum of 2 abstracts (1 as first author, 1 as co-author).

If you do not receive an online confirmation of your abstract submission, please contact Remco Knooihuizen (r.m.knooihuizen@rug.nl). If there are more speakers than slots in the program, the most recently received abstracts will be included as ‘alternates’.

PUBLICATIONS

After the Dutch Annual Linguistics Day, AVT members can submit a written version of their presentation for Nota Bene, a brand new, international and peer-reviewed journal published by John Benjamins. Nota Bene has a short publication process: each journal issue will be published no longer than six months after completion of the review procedure. An advantage is that an issue is accessible as open access via John Benjamins’ website two years after its publication.

Anéla members can submit a written version of their presentation for The Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics (Dujal, fully open access).