575 search results for “austronesian languages and linguistics” in the Staff website
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New professor Alwin Kloekhorst: 'The origin of your language also says something about you'
Where does Dutch come from? Newly appointed Professor Alwin Kloekhorst looks for an answer to that question in millennia-old languages from Anatolia, the Asian part of present-day Turkey. 'A new interpretation in one of the Anatolian languages can have consequences for dozens of other languages.'
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Rolf Bremmer
Faculty of Humanities
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Gijsbert Rutten
Faculty of Humanities
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Anneke Both-de Vries
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Dick Smakman
Faculty of Humanities
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Isaac Wei
Faculty of Humanities
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Jill Jeffery
Faculty of Humanities
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Sophia Nauta
Faculty of Humanities
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A History of Alorese (Austronesian)
PhD defence
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Ae Ree Nam
Faculty of Humanities
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Jin Hee Park
Faculty 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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MODIFED: Morphosyntactic Dialect Feature Detection Workshop
Workshop
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Esther Op de Beek
Faculty of Humanities
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How Russia uses language as a weapon of war
According to Russian propaganda Ukrainians are Nazis and people from the West are Satanists. Egbert Fortuin thinks we should take this propaganda seriously.
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Hannah De Mulder
Faculty of Humanities
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Leticia Pablos Robles
Faculty of Humanities
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‘Language is part of your identity’
Language is omnipresent: when you talk, app or meet in Teams. Understanding how we communicate with one another and what communication does to us is essential. In her inaugural lecture, Nivja de Jong will call to redress the balance between the sciences and the humanities.
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Fenna Poletiek
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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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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Language during war: the changing position of Russian in Ukraine
The impact of war extends beyond destroyed buildings and torn families. In bilingual Ukraine, the ongoing war with Russia is a major driver for increasingly discarding the Russian language. What does this mean for the position of Russian in Ukraine?
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How seals point to an undocumented prehistoric language
Language can be a time machine: we can learn from ancient texts how our ancestors interacted with the world around them. But can language also teach us something about people whose language has been lost? PhD candidate Anthony Jakob investigated whether the languages of prehistoric populations left…
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News on Languages & Cultures domain
Education
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Brenda Assendelft
Faculty of Humanities
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Johanneke Caspers
Faculty of Humanities
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Siavash Rafiee Rad
Faculty of Humanities
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Benjamin Storme
Faculty of Humanities
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Yiya Chen
Faculty of Humanities
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How AI helps map sign languages
Like spoken languages, sign languages evolve organically and do not always have the same origin. This produces different ways of communication and annotation. Manolis Fragkiadakis wrote his PhD thesis on this.
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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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Xuan Tang
Faculty of Humanities
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Anikó Lipták
Faculty of Humanities
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Egbert Fortuin
Faculty of Humanities
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Astrid Vandendaele
Faculty of Humanities
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Speech Prosody 2024
Conference
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Winged Words: Diachronic and Comparative Perspectives on Conceptual Metaphors
Conference
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Self-Directed Language Learning Using Mobile Technology in Higher Education
PhD defence
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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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Why is that word there? Research on language structure completed
Communication is the transmission of information. All day long we are busy explaining and making things clear to each other, but exactly how we do that varies from language to language. Associate Professor Jenneke van der Wal delved into African Bantu languages for a Vidi project.
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Azeb Amha
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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NWO grant for research about crossing language borders: ‘ We know very little about how multilingualism works outside Western societies’
Professor Felix Ameka and university lecturer Maria del Carmen Parafita Couta have received an NWO Open Competition grant together with Enoch Aboh (University of Amsterdam) to do research on ‘code-switching’: switching languages by multilinguals.
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Ben Arps
Faculty of Humanities
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Ola Uttenweiler
Faculty of Humanities
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Yinzhi Zhang
Faculty of Humanities
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Arnout Koornneef
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Elisabeth Kerr
Faculty of Humanities
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Jenneke van der Wal
Faculty of Humanities
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Maria del Carmen Parafita Couto
Faculty of Humanities
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Nancy Kula: ‘Languages are very diverse’
Nancy Kula has been Professor of African Linguistics since 1 February. Now is a good time to hear more about her field of expertise and academic interests.
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Wilt Idema
Faculty of Humanities