655 search results for “dutch linguistics” in the Staff website
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Geert Booij
Faculty of Humanities
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Lecturer African Linguistics
Humanities, Centre for Linguistics
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Heleen Smits
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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Ghanaian Sign Language(s): History, Linguistics, and Ideology
PhD defence
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Katja Lubina
Faculty of Humanities
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Yaming Zhang
Faculty of Humanities
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Bart Alewijnse
Faculty of Humanities
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Frits Kortlandt
Faculty of Humanities
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Rita Spithoff
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Jos Pacilly
Faculty of Humanities
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Opposing the French participle clause
The Dutch phrase ‘ijs en weder dienende’ (literally, ‘ice and weather serving’) is a good example of what is known as a participle clause and is perhaps one of the most unfathomable grammatical constructions in Dutch. For what (or who) is serving whom (or what)? It actually means ‘ice and weather permitting’.…
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PhD research: Was there already Dutch-Dutch and Belgian-Dutch in the past?
What developments preceded modern Standard Dutch? PhD candidate Iris Van de Voorde conducted research on ‘pluricentricity’, or the idea that language norms arise in different places and spread outwards from there. PhD defence on 19 April.
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Sara Petrollino
Faculty of Humanities
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Marijn van Putten
Faculty of Humanities
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Chengqi Yu
Faculty of Humanities
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Teresa Proto
Faculty of Humanities
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Fokelien Kootstra
Faculty of Humanities
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Marcel IJsselstijn
Faculteit Archeologie
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Carmen Kleinherenbrink
Faculty of Humanities
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Martijn Defilet
Faculteit Archeologie
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Carolien Boender
Faculty of Humanities
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Tommie van Wanrooij
Faculty of Humanities
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Philip Post
Faculty of Humanities
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Vincent van Heuven
Faculty of Humanities
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Stephan Raaijmakers
Faculty of Humanities
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Willem Adelaar
Faculty of Humanities
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Willemijn Heeren
Faculty of Humanities
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Fei Bai
Faculty of Humanities
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CLIN34 - Leiden 2024
Conference
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Linguistics alumna Anne-Mieke Thieme wint EFNIL-scriptieprijs
Good news for Linguistics alumna Anne-Mieke Thieme, who has won the thesis prize awarded by the European Federation of National Institutions for Language (EFNIL). ‘I emailed my thesis supervisor right away.’
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‘Computers can give linguists a push in the right direction’
For decades, linguists have racked their brains over the question of precisely how the syntax of various languages is different. PhD candidate Martin Kroon has developed a computer system that brings us closer to finding an answer. His PhD defence is on 10 November.
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Jiang Wu
Faculty of Humanities
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Olga van Marion
Faculty of Humanities
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Erik Odegard
Faculty of Humanities
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Olga Nozdracheva
Faculty of Humanities
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Isaac Wei
Faculty of Humanities
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Jill Jeffery
Faculty of Humanities
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Sophia Nauta
Faculty of Humanities
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The mechanism behind a friendly chat: 'Puzzle gets unravelled bit by bit'
A friendly chat is more complicated than you might think. As soon as the other person finishes talking, you already have an answer ready. But how do we know when it's time to change turns? University lecturer Johanneke Caspers has been awarded an NWO Open Competition grant to investigate the role of…
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The Linguistics Olympiad final is coming up soon: ‘The questions shouldn’t be too easy’
On Saturday 16 April, secondary school pupils will once again have a chance to sink their teeth into the hardest language-related questions during the final of the Linguistics Olympiad. Professor Sasha Lubotsky and PhD student Cid Swanenvleugel are both former Olympiad winners. Now they are involved…
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Linguists: crimefighters extraordinaire
Rector Magnificus Carel Stolker will retire on 8 February. If there’s one theme running through his career, it’s the links between the University and society. In this series of pre-retirement discussions, Stolker will talk one last time to people from within and without the University. In this first…
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MODIFED: Morphosyntactic Dialect Feature Detection Workshop
Workshop
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Nivja de Jong
Faculty of Humanities
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Marian Klamer
Faculty of Humanities
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From Gothic to OMG: the 21st conference on English historical linguistics comes to Leiden
The largest international conference on English historical linguistics is coming to Leiden. From 7 June to 11 June 2021, the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL) organises the International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL-21). Due to Covid measures, the conference takes…
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Bart van der Boom
Faculty of Humanities
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Olf Praamstra
Faculty of Humanities
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Geert Warnar
Faculty of Humanities
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Victor Meijers
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How the rise of AI is creating new opportunities for computational linguists
With the rise of AI, interest in computational linguistics and language models has taken flight. But machines are far from being able to go it alone. In her inaugural lecture, Professor Carole Tiberius will stress the importance of research on word combinations. ‘We know a great deal but there is a…