2008

- Dec 18 : End of term. Hand in your essays please!
- Oct 3 : Leiden Holiday
- Sep 26 : This semester I also teach a small seminar on Morphology
- Sep 18 : Evening classes on Thursdays
- Sep 11/12 : Workshop Voicing and Inaugural lecture Marc van Oostendorp
- Sep 4 : Opening drinks for the Academic Year, Department of English. This semester I teach Phonetics, Historical Linguistics and /r/.
- Aug 21 : Flying to Japan for the Kanazwawa Project Meeting (Autonomy, Harmony and Typology) and the Phonology Forum
- July 21 : Hurray! Graduation of Lalnlan Li, YinYin Zhu and Chang Liu! At the Phonetics Lab!
- June 12 : Umlaut workshop at the Meertens Institute in Amsterdam
- June 9 : Clearing my dreadful review backlog. Chang Liu got a 'pass' for her M.Phil thesis
- June 3 : Commented on a paper on Nivkh
- June 1 : Updated my journals database and started reading for The Year's Work in English Studies. Let's get 2007 covered
- May 27 : Congratulations to Kofi Dorvlo on the day of his PhD defence in Leiden
- May 23 : Attending the 2008 TWIST conference in Leiden, but also the M.Phil defence of Sander Almekinders on the phonontology
- May 22 : Asking a question at Erik Anonby's PhD defence in Leiden on Mambay. Party afterward!
- May 21 : The Sound Circle visits Leiden! Speakers include Stuart Davis. Four talks will also be presented at the Manchester Phonology Meeting. Sadly, I cannot make it this year...
- Apr 26 - May 10: Spring holidays in Beijing and Dalian, wonderful weather, beach and sunshine. See also pictures
- Apr 23 : Visiting Vijay for an interesting lecture and beautiful veena recital in Utrecht
- Apr 23 : Congratulating Mulugeta on his PhD in Leiden
- Apr 17 : Cooking (too) many Chinese dishes for many friends (Chinese, Polish, other....)
- Apr 9 : Starting the Thesis Seminar for Leiden M.Phil students. Wednesday afternoons
- Apr 4 : Trying to get students interested in our M.Phil programme Structure and Variation in the Languages of the World at a PR event
- Mar 29 : Visit from my Canadian friend and voice synthesiser Alain Theriault
- Mar 7-8 : Bantu workshop, Leiden
- Feb 22 - Mar 2 : In Bj with Fei and in Shanghai, visiting Lu, Jason and Zhongwei. Visiting SISU campus in Songjiang
- Feb 15 : I moved!
- Feb 13 : Investigating Chinese syntax
- Feb 12 : The LUCL/TWIST debate on the comparative method, between Willem Adelaar, Sasha Lubotsky and Marc van Oostendorp
- Feb 11 : Reading two M.Phil theses (partly) on English r and l-insertion, by Sander Almekinders and Marije Minkman
- Feb 7 : Starting the OT-class
- Feb 2 : The Linguistics in the Netherlands-day, an informal one-day conference with 90+ talks. My last meeting as the Secretary of the General Linguistics Society of the Netherlands
- Jan 17 : Very nice to visit NIAS again, where I am invited to talk with the evaluation committee of this institute
- Jan 11 : A delegation from Shenzhen University is visiting; the visit was prepared by Hongyan Wang. Fang Bao is helping out as an interpreter and host for the delegation
- Jan 9 : Finishing an overview article on English phonetics and phonology publications in 2006 for the Year's Work in English Studies ("a qualitative narrative bibliographical review of scholarly work"). It's my tenth year for YWES! Sorry I'm so late this time!
- Jan 8 : My friend and colleague Sang Jik Rhee (Chungnam) is visiting the International Office in Leiden, the IIAS and of course LUCL. He will organise an important conference next year
- Jan 1 : Arriving back from Bj. Holidays with twins in Wijchen
- Jan : Should still be reading Mathilde Jansen's (Meertens Institute) dissertation on the Ameland dialect. Supervisors: Frans Hinskens and Marc van Oostendorp