The Center for Language and Cognition Groningen (CLCG) is a research institute within the Faculty of Arts of the University of Groningen.
It is the institutional home for all the linguistic research carried out within the faculty. Within the CLCG there are four different research groups:
 

Computational linguistics
The computational linguistics group focuses on natural language processing by computers, from theoretical, experimental and applied perspectives. Areas of interest are wide-coverage grammars (especially for Dutch), machine translation, machine learning, and dialectometry. Strong ties to the researchers specializing in semantics and descriptive linguistics have developed from common interests in mathematical linguistics and corpora.

Coordinator: prof. dr. G.J.M. van Noord		 Discourse and Communication
This group combines research in pragmatic discourse analysis with the study of communication in institutional settings, i.e., in and around organisations, in the media, and on the Internet. The research focuses on the use of language and non-verbal semiotic systems in specific, esp. institutional and intercultural, communicative contexts, including face-to- face interactions, telephone conversations, written, visual, and audio-visual communication. Interactions are considered as situated, culture- and context-sensitive joint actions of the participants. Media are analysed in terms of their specific functionalities such as semiotic capacities, interactivity, and permanency. Cultural factors studied include institutional roles, ethnic, geographical, and socio-economic background, as well as gender. Special attention is paid to communication in professional settings, e.g., health communication, organisational communication, and media communication.

Coordinator: dr. J.C.J. Hoeks
Neurolinguistics and Language Development
The Neurolinguistics and Language development group is concerned with the organization and use of first and second language in the brain, through the study of three related fields: aphasia and developmental disorders of spoken and written language, semantics and cognition, and first and second language development, including language acquisition and language attrition. Research in this field has been largely experimental using a wide range of methods, including offline and online tasks, spontaneous speech analysis, event related potentials, functional magnetic resonance imaging, and reaction times. The varied focus of research within the group has been on (relations between) neurolinguistics, aphasiology, developmental language disorders, semantics and cognition (including first language aquisition), second language development and bilingualism (including language attrition), foreign language instruction research, an early foreign language learning.

Coordinator: prof. dr. B.A.M. Maassen		 Theoretical and Empirical Linguistics 
The research group "Syntax and Semantics" is a combined group consisting of the groups "Syntax" (which has also been known as "Generative Grammar") and "Semantics".
    Syntax - This research group studies the syntactic structure of the human language capacity and the way it is embedded in our general cognitive capacity. The research program is motivated, among other things, by the so-called logical problem of language acquisition and the evidence comes from comparative and typological research of the synchronic and diachronic variation among natural languages.
    Semantics - The research program of the Semantics group focuses on the restrictions on patterns related to quantification, negation and inference, and the semantics of negative polarity and degree adverbs. Further research includes topics on discourse semantics, in particular information structure and the dynamic properties of tense and aspect. The Semantics Group meets twice a month.

Coordinator: dr. M. de Vries