501 search results for “indo-european language” in the Student website
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Pragmaticalization or grammaticalization? A multidimensional model of the evolution of pragmatic markers
Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series
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Disentangling ghost segments and number marking in Sengwer nouns
Lecture, This Time for Africa! series
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Matthijs WesteraFaculty of Humanities
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Humanities PhD Symposium 2026
Conference, Symposium
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BA in Italian Language and Culture to continue
Leiden University will continue to offer its BA in Italian Language and Culture. The Board of the Faculty of Humanities has reversed its decision to stop admitting new students as of the 2026/2027 academic year.
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Leiden students help with primary school language lessons
De Regenboog primary school in The Hague has a high percentage of children whose first language is not Dutch. In the ‘Children of the City’ project, Education and Child Studies students help primary school children practise their Dutch.
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School pupils introduced to languages during profile choice afternoon
Last Tuesday, the Herta Mohr building was filled with secondary school pupils. During the profile choice afternoon, they were introduced to various aspects of language studies. 'It’s really exciting to be here.'
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Felix AmekaFaculty of Humanities
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Rogier CreemersFaculty of Humanities
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Olaf KaperFaculty of Humanities
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Johannes MüllerFaculty of Humanities
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Hannah De MulderFaculty of Humanities
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Marian Klamer on Science: 'Language is regularly used to legitimize a shared cultural history'
A newly opened museum in China appears to be devoted to the origins of the Austronesian-speaking peoples, who some 5000 years ago spread from East Asia across the Pacific, seeding it with a distinctive culture and some 1200 languages. But those displays are also a statement in the long-running dispute…
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Fei BaiFaculty of Humanities
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Saskia DunnFaculty of Humanities
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Martin KroonFaculty of Humanities
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Tessa MearnsICLON
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Carel SmithFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Jochem van den BoogertFaculty of Humanities
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Flor Miriam Plaza del ArcoFaculty of Science
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Pablo Isla MonsalveFaculty of Humanities
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Yumeng WangFaculty of Science
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Michaël OpgenhaffenFaculty of Humanities
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Maria van der SchaarFaculty of Humanities
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Martijn LemmenFaculty of Humanities
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Jiawen QiFaculty of Science
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Wenqian FanFaculty of Humanities
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Reassessing the etymology of Greek katharós ‘clean, stainless, pure’
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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What is citizenship? Classical Languages help find the answer
A European project should help reinvigorate Latin teaching in secondary schools. 'By focusing on citizenship, we want to show that Latin is relevant to discussions about citizenship and migration.'
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Peter LiebregtsFaculty of Humanities
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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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Peter BisschopFaculty of Humanities
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Rick HoningsFaculty of Humanities
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High school students get acquainted with language studies at profile selection day
The Choose a Language Day was created to make high school students enthusiastic about choosing a linguistic profile and further education. Third-years were able to learn about different language studies at the Faculty of Humanities.
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Florian Schneider
Faculty of Humanities
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Jenneke van der Wal wins Ammodo Science Award: ‘Especially unstudied languages contribute to theory building’
For associate professor Jenneke van der Wal, things have been good recently. After being awarded a Vici and Una Europa grant, she has now also received an Ammodo Science Award. ‘It is a nice confirmation that I am doing valuable work.’
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‘Stemmen van Afrika’ wins popularisation prize: 'Language is more than grammar'
The Voices of Africa platform is ten years old and has just recently won the annual popularisation prize of the Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics (LOT). High time for a chat with Jenneke van der Wal, Maarten Mous and Nina van der Vlugt about the importance of the platform and plans for the…
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Looking back on the Area Fair: Have you made your area and language choice yet?
As the deadline for choosing a region of study dwells on International Studies Students, on October 28th, the yearly Area Fair was held. Students could walk around the Schouwburgstraat building as presentations, stands filled with snacks from the area, and workshops were being offered.
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Poetry Translation Competition: Fun and Games with Language
In November, Leiden organized a book presentation to celebrate the first Dutch translation of the collected works of the twentieth-century poet W.H. Auden. A poetry translation contest added lustre to the occasion. There were no fewer than three winners.
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New professor Suzan Verberne aims to bring large language models and search engines closer together
Suzan Verberne has been appointed professor of Natural Language Processing at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS) from 1 October. Verberne has been at LIACS since 2017 as group leader of the Text Mining and Retrieval group.
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Anne Sytske KeijserFaculty of Humanities
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Tessa VerhoefFaculty of Science
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Johanneke CaspersFaculty of Humanities
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Göran SundholmFaculty of Humanities
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Petra de BruijnFaculty of Humanities
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Olga LundyshevaFaculty of Humanities
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Marianne van Dijken
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Matthew SungFaculty of Humanities