21 search results for “vergelijkende indo-european taalkunde” in the Student website
- Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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Genetics proves it: Indo-European did not come to Europe on horseback
Horses were first domesticated in South-West Russia, is the conclusion drawn by an international team of researchers writing in the well-respected journal Nature. Their conclusion resolves a longstanding archaeological question. But, surprisingly enough, this domestication did not contribute to the…
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Pascale EskesFaculty of Humanities
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Sealing and bookkeeping practices in Hittite Anatolia
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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Michaël Peyrot appointed professor: 'We have a bright future ahead of us'
Michaël Peyrot has been appointed professor of Comparative Indo-European Linguistics at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics with retroactive effect from 1 January. He is looking forward to passing on his love for the subject to a new generation of students.
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How did Proto-Indo-European reach Asia?
Five thousand years before the common era (BCE), Proto-Indo-European, the mother of many languages that are spoken today in Europe, Central Asia and South Asia, originated in eastern Europe. PhD candidate Axel Palmér has combined a 175-year-old hypothesis with new techniques to demonstrate how descendants…
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Relative chronology and the reconstruction of the Proto-Indo-European stop systems
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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LUF Praesidium Libertatis Grant awarded to two researchers
Anke Smits and Lucien van Beek have been awarded a Praesidium Libertatis Grant this year. Smits is an assistant professor at the LUMC and Van Beek at the Faculty of Humanities. They each receive a sum of 75,000 euros from the Leiden University Fund (LUF).
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Skill issues: conceptual metaphors and the etymology of Vedic r̥tá
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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Reassessing the etymology of Greek katharós ‘clean, stainless, pure’
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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Modality without moods? Preliminary considerations for a systematic study of modal strategies in Hittite
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium | Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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In the Spotlight: Summer School in Languages and Linguistics
After having been cancelled in 2020, this year the Summer School in Languages and Linguistics is going online. From 12 – 23 July, language and linguistics enthusiasts from all over the world can once again learn about a variety of rare languages and linguistics topics. Director Sasha Lubotsky tells…
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What does it actually say? Linguist launches video series on wall poems
The city centre of Leiden is covered in them: wall poems. When roaming around, you come across poetry written in the Latin alphabet, but also in scripts that might be more difficult to understand for the average person living in Leiden. In a new series of videos, Tijmen Pronk talks more about this.
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Annual Overview 2024
2024 was an eventful year for the Faculty of Humanities. Despite becoming the centre of political discussion and budget cuts as faculty ourselves, exceptional research projects were carried out and new initiatives were launched.
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A Luwian song in Old Hittite and its relevance for the study of negation compounds
Lecture, CIEL Seminars
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The development of the Tocharian accent
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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Computational approaches to diachronic language micro-variation
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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SAILS Workshop: AI and LLMs: Keeping the Linguist in the Loop
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One language = one archaeological culture? Peruvian evidence for a richer interface between language and archaeology
Lecture, Language and the Human Past
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(In)equalizers - Social and Economic Histories of Inequality(ies) and Difference(s), 1500-2000
Conference, Workshop
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European Day of Languages - Evening of Languages
Festival