575 search results for “africa linguistics” in the Student website
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Maarten MousFaculty of Humanities
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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…
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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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Priscilla LamFaculty of Humanities
- W van Kessel
- Antonio Frank
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Nancy KulaFaculty of Humanities
- Karin Nijenhuis
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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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Crisófia Langa da CâmaraFaculty of Humanities
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Victoria NystAfrika-Studiecentrum
- Maria Ditmars
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Maarten KossmannFaculty of Humanities
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Sini Hassinen
Sini Hassinen is a postdoctoral researcher at Leiden University Centre for the arts in Society. She has a background is in anthropology and African studies. Her research combines cultural analysis, decolonial and queer approaches, and participatory research methods.
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Felix AmekaFaculty of Humanities
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Heleen SmitsAfrika-Studiecentrum
- Harry Wels
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Mohamed Muse
Mohamed Muse is a researcher at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs, Leiden University. Mohamed Muse’s current research focuses on diaspora remittances and international financial regulations in Sub-Saharan Africa. Mohamed’s background is in International Development and International Political…
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Yaming Zhang
Faculty of Humanities
- Bart Alewijnse
- Frits Kortlandt
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Visit to Ghana: Leiden University strengthens ties with partners in Africa
Leiden University will deepen its cooperation with knowledge institutions in Africa. During a trip to Ghana, a delegation spoke with several African knowledge institutions about intensifying their collaboration.
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Amadou Adamou
Amadou Adamou is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History.
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Chibuike UcheAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Marijn van PuttenFaculty of Humanities
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David Ehrhardt
David Ehrhardt studies governance and institutional change in Africa, with a focus on the role of non-state leaders (such as traditional and religious leaders) in promoting changes that enhance development. He is also co-lead of the Learning Mindset innovation project, which develops and researches…
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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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Willemijn HeerenFaculty of Humanities
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Yuyang Wei
Yuyang Wei is a PhD candidate at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics.
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Yingyang Wang
Yingyang Wang is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Linguistics.
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Jiang Wu
Jiang Wu is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Linguistics. He is currently involved in the NWO-funded project
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Fei BaiFaculty of Humanities
- Anika Altaf
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Rita SpithoffFaculteit Governance and Global Affairs
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Sasha Lubotsky
Sasha Lubotsky is an Emeritus Professor of Comparative Indo-European Linguistics at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics.
- Jan Abbink
- Akinyinka Akinyoade
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Astrid VandendaeleFaculty of Humanities
- Matthew Sung
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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…
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Tina Cambier-Langeveld
Tina Cambier-Langeveld is a guest lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics.
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Debora Campos Wanderley - Rijk van Dijk
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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 StormeFaculty of Humanities
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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…
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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…
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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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Pascale Eskes
Pascale Eskes is a PhD Candidate at the Centre for Linguistics
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Jan-Bart GewaldAfrika-Studiecentrum