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403 search results for “afrika linguistics” in the Student website

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  Heleen Smits Scientific Information Specialist

  Afrika-Studiecentrum

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  Yaming Zhang Lab coordinator & technician

  Faculty of Humanities

• Bart Alewijnse

• Frits Kortlandt

• Linguistics alumna Anne-Mieke Thieme wint EFNIL-scriptieprijs News - 25 June 2021

  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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  Marijn van Putten Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• ‘Computers can give linguists a push in the right direction’ News - 10 November 2022

  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.

• Sara Petrollino

  Sara Petrollino is a University Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. She is an anthropological linguist specialised in languages and cultures of East Africa. She studies the relationship between language, culture and cognition, so how do the languages we speak…

• Jill Jeffery

  Jill Jeffery is a university lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. Her research investigates academic writing development in secondary and postsecondary school settings by examining what “good writing” is and how it is taught and learned. Thus far, this work has led her to examine…

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  Maarten Mous Professor Emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Willemijn Heeren Senior University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

• Yuyang Wei

  Yuyang Wei is a PhD candidate at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics.

• Yingyang Wang

  Yingyang Wang is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Linguistics.

• Jiang Wu

  Jiang Wu is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Linguistics. He is currently involved in the NWO-funded project

• The Linguistics Olympiad final is coming up soon: ‘The questions shouldn’t be too easy’ News - 14 April 2022

  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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  Fei Bai PhD candidate / contract

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Rita Spithoff Dual PhD candidate/guest

  Faculteit Governance and Global Affairs

• Sasha Lubotsky

  Sasha Lubotsky is an Emeritus Professor of Comparative Indo-European Linguistics at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics.

• From Gothic to OMG: the 21st conference on English historical linguistics comes to Leiden News - 28 May 2021

  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…

• Jenneke van der Wal

  Jenneke van der Wal is a researcher and teacher with a passion for African languages and linguistics. She wants to understand what our human language ability is in the broadest sense, focusing on morphosyntax and information structure. She believes this is best done through collaborative research. In…

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  Astrid Vandendaele Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• Rik van Gijn

  Rik van Gijn is professor by special appointment of ethnolinguistic vitality and diversity in the world at the Centre for Linguistics. His interests focus on the indigenous languages of South America, and in particular on the question of the historical development of the stunning linguistic diversity…

• Tina Cambier-Langeveld

  Tina Cambier-Langeveld is a guest lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics.

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  Debora Campos Wanderley
• Katinka Zeven

  Katinka Zeven is a lecturer at the Centre for Linguistics. Her research focuses on the impact of translation choices on female and racial stereotypes in literary works.

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  Benjamin Storme Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• Anikó Lipták

  Anikó Lipták is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Linguistics. She studies syntactic rules in grammar, with special attention to crosslinguistic variation and the interface between syntax and information structure, as well as between syntax and word formation. Currently, her focus is on the structure…

• Marian Klamer

  Marian Klamer is Director PhD programs and Professor of Austronesian and Papuan Linguistics at the Centre for Linguistics. She works on the description and comparison of smaller, under-described Austronesian and Papuan languages in Indonesia, and she studies the history and culture of the populations…

• Michaël Peyrot

  Michaël Peyrot’s research focuses on the reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European, in particular the verbal system, and on language contact and prehistory, especially in the Tocharian, Iranian and Indic branches. The leading question is how language contact can be used to draw conclusions about linguistic…

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  Nancy Kula Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• Carole Tiberius appointed professor of Computational Linguistics: 'If you know how systems work, you can better assess their limitations' News - 26 April 2023

  ChatGPT, translation machines and bots: for Carole Tiberius, they are a piece of cake. On 1 January, she was appointed professor of Computational Linguistics. 'There ae two elements to the field: computer science and linguistics.'

• Pascale Eskes

  Pascale Eskes is a PhD Candidate at the Centre for Linguistics

• Hilde Gunnink

  Hilde Gunnink is a linguist specialized in the languages of Southern Africa. Her research focuses on documenting the synchronic structures of African languages, how these developed and changed over time, and what this can tell us about the human past.

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  Sophia Nauta PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Janet Grijzenhout Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• Arie Verhagen

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  Adrien Dadone Postdoc

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Priscilla Lam PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

• Michaël Opgenhaffen

  Michaël Opgenhaffen is an assistant professor at the Centre for Linguistics.

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  Benjamin Suchard Guest researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Maarten Kossmann Associate professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Longming Shichuan Contract PhD Candidate / Guest

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Tian Yang PhD candidate / contract

  Faculty of Humanities

• Tijmen Pronk

  Tijmen Pronk is Assistant Professor and Director of Education at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics.

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  Maria del Carmen Parafita Couto Guest reseacher

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Olga Nozdracheva PhD candidate / contract

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Martin Kroon Guest researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Martijn Lemmen PhD candidate / guest

  Faculty of Humanities

• Gijsbert Rutten new professor of Dutch Linguistics News - 3 September 2025

  Gijsbert Rutten has been appointed professor of Dutch Linguistics with effect from 1 July. In this position, he will focus on language change and language variation, with a particular emphasis on historical sociolinguistics.

• Paz Gonzalez Gonzalez

  Paz Gonzalez Gonzalez is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics.