This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the thirty-sixth annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of the Netherlands, which took place in Utrecht on January 29th, 2005. The aim of the annual meetings is to provide members with the opportunity to report on their ongoing research. At this year's meeting, 78 papers were presented, of which 19 are published in this volume. Together they present an overview of research in different fields of linguistics in the Netherlands.