862 search results for “comparative indo-europese linguistics” in the Student website
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World Congress of African Linguists (WOCAL): A conference like no other
The 10th edition of the World Congress of African Linguists (WOCAL), hosted by Leiden University, will be held online from 7 – 12 June. Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL) researchers give us an insight into how important and special this event actually is.
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Aljosa SorgoFaculty of Humanities
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Zeeshan MansoorFaculty of Law
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PhD candidate Camil Staps figured out what ‘out’ means
Words originally intended to indicate space, such as ‘out’, are also regularly used to indicate cause and effect. Why does this happen? And how does it work in other languages? PhD candidate Camil Staps decided to find out.
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Cécile Pick
Social & Behavioural Sciences
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Gert Jan GeertjesFaculty of Law
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Alina KarakantaFaculty of Humanities
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Emi YamamotoFaculty of Humanities
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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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Tim LamérisFaculty of Humanities
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Leticia Pablos RoblesFaculty of Humanities
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Tim EnweremFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Gerard BreemanFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Carolina Lisboa PintoFaculty of Law
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Meike de Boer: ‘The word 'uh' can help track down suspects’
In the new video series 'The World of Linguistics', alumni and researchers talk about their passion for their field. PhD candidate Meike de Boer knows everything about the word ‘uh’.
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Maarten Mous: ‘Your language is part of the world’
In the new video series 'The World of Linguistics', alumni and researchers talk about their passion for their field. Professor of African Linguistics Maarten Mous explains the importance of hearing your language at school.
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Chams BernardFaculty of Humanities
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Laura MiglioriFaculty of Humanities
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Federico DragoniFaculty of Humanities
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Denny van der Vlist
Social & Behavioural Sciences
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Mateo Cohen
Social & Behavioural Sciences
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Manuel Cabal LopezSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Jonathan PhillipsSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Digging for treasure in archives: what did spoken Scots sound like?
How did Scottish speakers sound hundreds of years ago? University lecturer Mo Gordon thinks the answer to that question can be found in church archives. 'It can be a boost to your identity to know the history of your language.'
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Talent for languages test: National Linguistics Olympiad puts language sense to the test for high school students
How would you convert Egyptian hieroglyphs into Latin script? And what is actually the correct translation of dishes on a Vietnamese menu? On Saturday 28 January, high school students from all over the Netherlands will come to Leiden to ponder a series of language-related puzzles. Their goal? To win…
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Martine BruilFaculty of Humanities
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Alex Reuneker awarded Frans van Eemeren prize
University lecturer Alex Reuneker has won the Frans van Eemeren Prize for his paper 'Assessing classification reliability of conditionals in discourse'.
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Marina TerkourafiFaculty of Humanities
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Tony FosterFaculty of Humanities
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Nivja de JongFaculty of Humanities
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Hans-Jan van KralingenFaculty of Law
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Alain WijffelsFaculty of Law
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Santy KouwagamFaculty of Law
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Human language inspired AI – and now we can use that AI to learn about language
Yuchen Lian defended her thesis on AI and language evolution at Leiden University.
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Sepideh Pourkoushki
Faculty of Humanities
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Victoria NystFaculty of Humanities
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Ruben van UdenFaculty of Law
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Eva SchmidtFaculty of Law
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Ebbe RoggeFaculty of Law
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Miranda BooneFaculty of Law
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Ekaterina PannebakkerFaculty of Law
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Johanneke CaspersFaculty of Humanities
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Ahmed Sosal Altayeb Mohammed AliFaculty of Humanities
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How language reveals what you're really saying: 'Interesting if it's language-independent'
In a conversation, you provide all sorts of information to the listener. For example, you can indicate that you're certain about something, or that you heard it through someone else. Associate Professor Jenneke van der Wal has been awarded a Vici grant to investigate whether the way people do this is…
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PhD candidate Alex Reuneker’s research: What do we mean when we use ‘if’?
‘If it rains later, then I’ll take the car.’ In order to reason, we use sentences containing ‘if’ every single day. But how does that work exactly in the Dutch language? Alex Reuneker wrote his 628 page dissertation on the subject. Ceremony on 26 January.
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Andrew WigmanFaculty of Humanities
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Amir ZamaniFaculty of Humanities
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Rasmus NielsenFaculty of Humanities
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Leonardo Arias AlvisFaculty of Humanities
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Methods in Experimental Linguistics: Poster Session by MA students
Poster session