576 search results for “afrika linguistics” in the Staff website
- Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
- Chinese Linguistics in Leiden (ChiLL)
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Poster presentation Linguistic Fieldwork B
Exhibition
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Summer School in Languages and Linguistics
Course, summer school
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55th Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics
Conference
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Heleen SmitsAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Yaming ZhangFaculty of Humanities
- Bart Alewijnse
- Frits Kortlandt
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Linguistics alumna Anne-Mieke Thieme wint EFNIL-scriptieprijs
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 PuttenFaculty of Humanities
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‘Computers can give linguists a push in the right direction’
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.
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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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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 MousFaculty of Humanities
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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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The Linguistics Olympiad final is coming up soon: ‘The questions shouldn’t be too easy’
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 BaiFaculty of Humanities
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Linguists: crimefighters extraordinaire
Rector Magnificus Carel Stolker will retire on 8 February. If there’s one theme running through his career, it’s the links between the University and society. In this series of pre-retirement discussions, Stolker will talk one last time to people from within and without the University. In this first…
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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.
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From Gothic to OMG: the 21st conference on English historical linguistics comes to Leiden
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…
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Sealing and bookkeeping practices in Hittite Anatolia
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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Historical implications of argument marking patterns in the Guaporé-Mamoré area
Lecture, Language and the Human Past
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What language-specific ‘first aid kits’ can tell us about bilingualism
Lecture, SMILE - Experimental Linguistics series
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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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Astrid VandendaeleFaculty of Humanities
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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 -
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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Egbert Fortuin appointed professor of Russian Language and Linguistics: 'I am back'
On 1 August, Egbert Fortuin has been appointed Professor of Russian Language and Linguistics. After a five-year term as vice-dean of the Faculty Board, he is eager to fully devote himself to the study programme. His appointment can therefore be summarised in three words: 'I am back'.
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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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Nancy KulaFaculty of Humanities
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Pascale Eskes
Pascale Eskes is a PhD Candidate at the Centre for Linguistics
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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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Sophia NautaFaculty of Humanities
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Janet GrijzenhoutFaculty of Humanities
- Arie Verhagen
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Adrien DadoneFaculty of Humanities
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Priscilla LamFaculty of Humanities
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Michaël Opgenhaffen
Michaël Opgenhaffen is an assistant professor at the Centre for Linguistics.
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Benjamin SuchardFaculty of Humanities
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How the rise of AI is creating new opportunities for computational linguists
With the rise of AI, interest in computational linguistics and language models has taken flight. But machines are far from being able to go it alone. In her inaugural lecture, Professor Carole Tiberius will stress the importance of research on word combinations. ‘We know a great deal but there is a…