691 search results for “afrika linguistics” in the Student website
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Longming ShichuanFaculty of Humanities
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Tian YangFaculty of Humanities
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Tijmen PronkFaculty of Humanities
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Maria del Carmen Parafita CoutoFaculty of Humanities
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Olga NozdrachevaFaculty of Humanities
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Martijn LemmenFaculty of Humanities
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Martin KroonFaculty of Humanities
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Paz Gonzalez GonzalezFaculty of Humanities
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Olga LundyshevaFaculty of Humanities
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Kate BellamyFaculty of Humanities
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Guus KroonenFaculty of Humanities
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Jesse Wichers SchreurFaculty of Humanities
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Gijsbert Rutten new professor of Dutch Linguistics
Gijsbert Rutten has been appointed professor of Dutch Linguistics with effect from 1 July. In this position, he will focus on language change and language variation, with a particular emphasis on historical sociolinguistics.
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Xuan TangFaculty of Humanities
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In the Spotlight: Summer School in Languages and Linguistics
After having been cancelled in 2020, this year the Summer School in Languages and Linguistics is going online. From 12 – 23 July, language and linguistics enthusiasts from all over the world can once again learn about a variety of rare languages and linguistics topics. Director Sasha Lubotsky tells…
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Alwin KloekhorstFaculty of Humanities
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Mahmood YenkimalekiFaculty of Humanities
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Annachiara Raia receives NWO Impact Explorer grant: ‘We want to ensure that literature is once again voiced by its own society and resonates
For decades, the trade in pocketbooks prescribing how to be a good Muslim flourished in East Africa, but in recent years the number of books in circulation has been declining. University lecturer Annachiara Raia is the recipient of an Impact Explorer grant to revive this tradition, in cooperation with…
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Felix AmekaFaculty of Humanities
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Stefan NorbruisFaculty of Humanities
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Stan van der BurghtFaculty of Humanities
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Irina MorozovaFaculty of Humanities
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Yiran Ding
Faculty of Humanities
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Maarten Bogaards-KolsteeFaculty of Humanities
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Martine BruilFaculty of Humanities
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Matthew SungFaculty of Humanities
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Siavash Rafiee RadFaculty of Humanities
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Bert BotmaFaculty of Humanities
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Jos SchaekenFaculty of Humanities
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Tim LamérisFaculty of Humanities
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Turan Hanci
Faculty of Humanities
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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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Leticia Pablos RoblesFaculty of Humanities
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Ingrid Tieken-Boon van OstadeFaculty of Humanities
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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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Niels SchoubbenFaculty of Humanities
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Marina TerkourafiFaculty of Humanities
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Henrike JansenFaculty of Humanities
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Maarten van LeeuwenFaculty of Humanities
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Yiya ChenFaculty of Humanities
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Nivja de JongFaculty of Humanities
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Saskia DunnFaculty 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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Emi YamamotoFaculty of Humanities
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Johanneke CaspersFaculty of Humanities
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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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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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Underexposed colonial past: 'You can suddenly feel like you are connecting with someone from the past'
Attention to the colonial past may be increasing, but many aspects of it are still underexposed. Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant, in collaboration with, among others, Leiden researchers Anne-Marieke van der Wal-Rémy and Alicia Schrikker, therefore created a 'Canon of the Dutch Underexposed Past', which…
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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.'