Prof Dr L.M.E.A. Cornips

• Taalvariatie in 'oude' en 'nieuwe' variëteiten van het Nederlands
• methodologie en syntactische elicitatie van dialectkenmerken
• Tweetalige en dialectacquisitie (2L1/child L2)
• Grammatica: geslacht, argument structuur: reflexieven, doen-support en verbale clusters
• Talige constructie van lokale en regionale identiteiten

PhD Supervision

• Drs. Lotte Thissen “Constructions of local identities in Limburg: Feelings of belonging through languaugecultural practices"; 01-08-2011 through 01-08-2015. Gefinancierd door de provincie Limburg.
• Drs. Jolien Clijsen “Wellbeing and Social integration of (communicatively impaired) bilinguals/bidialectals. Advancing the European Multilingual Experience (ATheme)”; 01.08.2014 through 01.07.2018. Gefinancierd door EU FP7/Meertens Instituut (KNAW)/UM
• Drs. Kirsten van den Heuij. Junior Researcher "Cognitive development of bilingual dialect speaking children in Limburg"; 01-02-2014-01-07-2015. Gefinancierd door SWOL, Raod veur 't Limburgs, Meertens Instituut, UU, UvA, FASoS, Taalcultuur in Limburg.
• Drs. Nantke Pecht "Speaking Cité Duits in a coalminers’ neighborhood: The construction and reproduction of social identities through language practices"; 01.09.2015 – 31-12.2019. Gefinancierd door DAAD & NWO_GW.
• Drs. Lysbeth Jongbloed "The use of Frisian in social media"; 01.11.2015 - 01.11.2019. Gefinancierd door Fryske Akademie & UM/FASoS.
• Drs. Pomme van de Weerd “Normativity and voice in peripheral areas: Limburg in the era of superdiversity”; 1-09-2016 tot 31-08- 2019. Gefinancierd door NWO_MAGW.
• Drs. Daan Hovens "Meertaligheid op de werkplek: het gebruik van Nederlands en Duits in the Maas-Rijn Euregio”; 1-1-2017 tot 31 -12-2020, Gefinancierd door ITEM.

Post-Doc Supervision

• Dr. Anna Strycharz-Banas “Dialect levelling in an expatriate community? Exploring Japanese negation in the Netherlands”; 01.01.2012 through 01.04.2014. Financed by NWO beurs (Rubicon). A small part of this research will take place in Maastricht, financed by Research Fasos Grant, UM and Meertens Instituut/ Rubicon.

Projects

• The construction of local identies in Limburg through languagecultural practices, with Dr. V. de Rooij and dr. I. Stengs; 01.09.2011 through 01.09.2015. Financed by the province of Limburg/Meertens Institute/ from 01.09.2015 until 01.09.2019 with Dr.V. de Rooij

This project focuses on ‘languageculture’, a concept that highlights the interrelationship of culture and language in the formation of local identity. This implies that linguistic elements (choice of language, vocabulary, grammar) are an inherent aspect of cultural practices specifically related with the local (celebrations, foods, sports, etcetera). By studying how culture and language practices reinforce each other in processes of local identity formation; the choices that are made herein; and who uses these practices when, where and why, the researchers aim at gaining insight in the power relationships between and within economical, political and cultural centres and peripheries. Languageculture in the province of Limburg will provide the empirical casus for this study. By means of fieldwork, the project will focus on the shaping and experiencing of Limburgian identity as well as various more local identities, among  inhabitants and outsiders.

• Cognitive development of bidialectal children in Limburg

Do Dutch-Limburgian bilingual or rather bidialectal children have a cognitive advantage based on their multilingualism?  This is the central question posed in a new research project by Maastricht University. The study is part of the VIDI-project “Cognitive Development in Emerging Bilingualism”(CoDEmBi) supervised by Elma Blom from Utrecht University. The study in Limburg will be carried out by Kirsten van den Heuij from Maastricht University. The study will run until the end of 2014 and will measure the (language) abilities of hundred bilingual and monolingual children between the age of 5 and 8 years old from Limburg. By means of several tests these two groups will be compared in their language, concentration and memory skills. The funders of this research project are: SWOL (MU), Language&Literature (MU), Taalcultuur in Limburg (MU), VIDI-grant Elma Blom (UU), Theoretical Linguistics (UvA), the Meertens Institute and Road veur ’t Limburgs.
This study treads new ground, as there has been little research on bilingual dialect-speaking children so far.

At 19 november 2015, an inspiration day for 140 interested people was organized at Fontys Hogeschool, together with Cubiss. A report about this day can befound here:

and pictures here:

• Limburg portal in The Digital Library of Dutch Literature; 01-09-2011 ----. This project aims at digitizing Limburgian Literature and Culture History in order to make it freely accessible to everyone.

See: http://www.dbnl.org/letterkunde/limburg/

• Member of the FP7 network: 'Advancing the European Multilingual Experience'. See: https://vre.leidenuniv.nl/vre/atheme/public/default.aspx

• Substitute Management member of COST network: 'New Speakers in a Multilingual Europe' See:http://www.cost.eu/domains_actions/isch/Actions/IS1306
• Member WUN network "Understanding Globalization – Margins and Peripheries", PI Ana Deumert, University of Cape Town. http://dev.understandingglobalization.uct.ac.za/

• Visie op taal als erfgoed. Op invitatie van de provincie van Limburg, is het visie document 'Sjiek is miech dat! Visie op taal als erfgoed' geschreven als input voor Provinciale erfgoednota ( mei 2016) Het document is geschreven door prof. L. Cornips (Leerstoel Taalcultuur in Limburg) en dr. V. van Saaze (MACCH), drs. M. Frencken, E. van Nieuwenhoven, drs. T. van de Wijngaard (Huis voor de Kunsten Limburg) en prof. R. van Hout (Raod veur ’t Limburgs) in samenwerking met diverse lokale taalverenigingen.

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• See for Publications and Lectures:

http://www.meertens.knaw.nl/cms/en/staff/142455-leoniec

• See for columns in De Limburger/Limburgs Dagblad:

http://www.meertens.knaw.nl/cms/en/staff/143384

Recent regarding Limburg:

• Cornips, Leonie & Vincent de Rooij 2015. Belonging through Languagecultural Practices in the Periphery. The Politics of Carnival in the Dutch Province of Limburg. Anthropological Journal of European Cultures 24:1, 83-101.
• Nguyen, Dong, Dolf Trieschnigg and Leonie Cornips. 2015. Audience and the use of minority languages on Twitter. Proceedings of the Ninth AAAI International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM-2015) p. 666-669.
• Cornips, L. (2013). Recent developments in the Limburg dialect region. In Frans Hinskens & Johan Taeldeman (Eds.), Language and Space An International Handbook of Linguistic Variation. Volume 3: Dutch (pp. 378-399). Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter Mouton.

• Cornips, L. (2012) Heerlens Nederlands. Heerlen: Gemeente Heerlen, bij gelegenheid van het uitvaren van de 62e Togh van het Gilde Blauw Sjuut, 2012. Full text: http://depot.knaw.nl/12845
• Cornips, L. & V. de Rooij & I.L. Stengs. (2012) 'Carnavalesk taalgebruik en de constructie van lokale identiteiten. Een pleidooi voor taalcultuur als onderzoeksveld'. In: Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics: 1 (1), 15-40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/dujal.1.1.04cor. Full text: http://depot.knaw.nl/12660