Keynote speakers:

• Shyamala Chengappa (All India Institute of Speech and Hearing, Mysore, India)

• Pieter Muysken (Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen, Netherlands)

• Nuria Sebastian-Gallés (Universitat de Barcelona, Catalonia)

• Antonella Sorace (University of Edinburgh, Scotland)

• Sarah Thomason(University of Michigan, USA)

Local organizing committee:

Jacomine NortierMartin EveraertRené KagerManuela PintoJan ten ThijeHans Van de Velde

Utrecht Institute of Linguistics UiL-OTS

The Netherlands

North-South: 300 km

East-West: 150 km

16 million inhabitants

Capital: Amsterdam: 740,000

Rotterdam: 600,000Den Haag: 400,000Utrecht: 280,000

Utrecht (January 2007):

In the center of the country!

-30 minutes from Amsterdam Central (train) 2,5 hours (bicycle) 1 hour (car; rush hours)-35 minutes from Schiphol Airport (train)-Advice: use public transport. NL is small, space (including parking) is expensive!

The weather in NL:

We have everything…

But you can’t choose!

Total Dutch population 16.334.210 (100%)

Turkish 364.333 (2.23%)

Surinamese 331.890 (2.03%)

Moroccan 323.239 (1.98%)

Antillean / Aruban 129.683 (0.79%)

Utrecht (January 2007):

280,000 inhabitants

20.8% non-Western

8.8% Moroccan

4.5 % Turkish

The city of Utrecht:

Water and leisure..

Architecture Rietveld-Schröder house

Dick Bruna

Utrecht University:

• Largest in NL

• 28,000 students

• 8,000 employees

Academiegebouw

Conference venue

Educatorium, designed by Rem Koolhaas

6 km from Utrecht center. Public transport: very good.

January 18th, 2007…

Thank you for your attention

We hope to meet you in 2009

In the Netherlands!