Save the date: Prof. Enoch Aboh to deliver 2026 Robert Le Page Lecture

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Posted on Monday 15 December 2025

The second annual lecture in the series honours the department's founding professor and his pioneering work in creole linguistics.

The Department of Language and Linguistic Science is delighted to announce that Professor Enoch Aboh, from the University of Amsterdam, will deliver the 2026 Robert Le Page Lecture on 12 March 2026.

The Robert Le Page Lecture series honours the department's founding professor, the eminent linguist and creolist Robert Le Page (1920–2006), whose pioneering research on language contact, creolisation and multilingualism continues to shape the field today. This will be the second annual lecture in the series.

Professor Aboh is a leading scholar in theoretical syntax and language creation. His research explores the learnability of human language, with a particular focus on comparative syntax across language families including Kwa, Germanic, Romance, Sinitic and Caribbean creoles. His work on the discourse-syntax interface and language change has made significant contributions to our understanding of how languages develop and evolve.

Further details, including the lecture title, time and venue, will be announced in early 2026.

Find out more about Professor Aboh's research on his University of Amsterdam profile page.