384 search results for “linguistics” in the Staff website
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Arie Verhagen
Faculty of Humanities
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Benjamin Suchard
Faculty of Humanities
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Amos van Baalen
Faculty of Humanities
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Janet Grijzenhout
Faculty of Humanities
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M. Y. Priscilla Lam
Faculty of Humanities
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Benjamin Storme
Faculty of Humanities
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Maria del Carmen Parafita Couto
Faculty of Humanities
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Elisabeth Kerr
Faculty of Humanities
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Kate Bellamy
Faculty of Humanities
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Jenneke van der Wal
Faculty of Humanities
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Tina Cambier-Langeveld
Faculty of Humanities
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Matthew Sung
Faculty of Humanities
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Matthijs Westera
Faculty of Humanities
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Olga Lundysheva
Faculty of Humanities
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Martin Kroon
Faculty of Humanities
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Astrid Vandendaele
Faculty of Humanities
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Tian Yang
Faculty of Humanities
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Saskia Dunn
Faculty of Humanities
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Enrico Odelli
Faculty of Humanities
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Xuan Tang
Faculty of Humanities
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Arend Quak
Faculty of Humanities
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Colin Ewen
Faculty of Humanities
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Egbert Fortuin
Faculty of Humanities
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Anikó Lipták
Faculty of Humanities
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Jiaqi Wang
Faculty of Humanities
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PhD candidate Alex Reuneker’s research: What do we mean when we use ‘if’?
‘If it rains later, then I’ll take the car.’ In order to reason, we use sentences containing ‘if’ every single day. But how does that work exactly in the Dutch language? Alex Reuneker wrote his 628 page dissertation on the subject. Ceremony on 26 January.
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Guus Kroonen
Faculty of Humanities
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Alwin Kloekhorst
Faculty of Humanities
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Tijmen Pronk
Faculty of Humanities
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Meike de Boer: ‘The word 'uh' can help track down suspects’
In the new video series 'The World of Linguistics', alumni and researchers talk about their passion for their field. PhD candidate Meike de Boer knows everything about the word ‘uh’.
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Maarten Mous: ‘Your language is part of the world’
In the new video series 'The World of Linguistics', alumni and researchers talk about their passion for their field. Professor of African Linguistics Maarten Mous explains the importance of hearing your language at school.
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Felix Ameka
Faculty of Humanities
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Jesse Wichers Schreur
Faculty of Humanities
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Talent for languages test: National Linguistics Olympiad puts language sense to the test for high school students
How would you convert Egyptian hieroglyphs into Latin script? And what is actually the correct translation of dishes on a Vietnamese menu? On Saturday 28 January, high school students from all over the Netherlands will come to Leiden to ponder a series of language-related puzzles. Their goal? To win…
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Axel Palmér
Faculty of Humanities
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Turan Hanci
Faculty of Humanities
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Geert Booij
Faculty of Humanities
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Carmen Sylvia Spiers
Faculty of Humanities
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Emi Yamamoto
Faculty of Humanities
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Jos Schaeken
Faculty of Humanities
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Leonid Kulikov
Faculty of Humanities
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Sarah von Grebmer zu Wolfsthurn
Faculty of Humanities
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Marijke van der Wal
Faculty of Humanities
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Mahmood Yenkimaleki
Faculty of Humanities
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Camil Staps
Faculty of Humanities
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Tim Laméris
Faculty of Humanities
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Linguistic atlases, and dialect maps
Workshop Series
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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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Maria del Carmen Parafita Couto: ‘I have to speak to my cats in Galician’
In the new video series 'The World of Linguistics', alumni and researchers talk about their passion for their field. University lecturer Maria Del Carmen Parafita Couto speaks about bilingualism.
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Cattle, rather than geometric shapes, determine how the Hamar see the world
Sara Petrollino, a university lecturer in linguistics, strongly believes that language influences the way we see the world. An NWO Open Competition (XS) grant will enable her to test this hypothesis among the Ethiopian Hamar people. ‘The idea that everyone thinks in geometric shapes is culturally de…