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2,182 search results for “historical” in the Public website

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  Jan Wim Buisman Guest employee

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Hilde Gunnink Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Alwin Kloekhorst Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Gijsbert Rutten Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• What late medieval chant manuscripts do to a present-day performer of plainchant Research output

  This book is witness to Hendrik Vanden Abeele’s research into the development, construction and creation of a present-day performance practice of late medieval plainchant, based partly on his work with the Belgian chant group Psallentes.

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  Jiang Wu
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  Michaël Peyrot Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Janet Grijzenhout Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Adrien Dadone Postdoc

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Gabe van Beijeren Bergen en Henegouwen Language Skills Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

• Pickpocket compounds from Latin to Romance Research output

  This thesis discusses the development in Proto–Indo–European, Latin and Romance of a word–formation pattern which the most adequate terminology in use dubs ‘verbal government compounds with a governing first member’; I use the shorthand ‘pickpocket compounds’.

• Summer School: Historical Performance Studies Event - 27 March 2023
• Joseph Priestley, Grammarian: Late Modern English normativism and usage in a sociohistorical context Research output

  This dissertation the role of the English dissenting minister Joseph Priestley (1733-1804) as a grammarian is studied.

• Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger: life and work with special attention paid to basso continuo Research output

  The thesis presents a new perspective on Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger (ca.1580-1651), who is nowadays only famous for his works for theorbo and lute, his remarkable output of vocal music of all genres being still mostly neglected from musicologists and performers.

• British Celtic Influence on English Phonology Research output

  This dissertation assesses the influence of British Celtic on the phonological development of English during and shortly after the Anglo-Saxon settlement period, ca. AD 450-700.

• The Tocharian subjunctive (2004-2010) Research output

  In this study, the formation of the Tocharian subjunctive is described, its use and meaning are analysed and its origins are investigated.

• Innovation in tradition Research output

  This dissertation explores the history of the language of a manuscript known as Tönnies Fonne's Russian-German Phrasebook (Pskov 1607).

• Antiquities of the rainforest: evolution of mycoheterotrophic angiosperms growing on Glomeromycota Research output

  Promotor: Prof.dr. E.F. Smets, Co-promotor: Dr. V.S.F.T. Merckx

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  Maarten Kossmann Associate professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Manuel Cabal Lopez Assistant professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Ian Simpson Assistant Professor

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  Jip Barreveld Researcher

• The dawn of Dutch: language change in the Low Countries between 500 and 1200 AD Research project

  The main goal of this project is to answer the question: how did Dutch acquire its own, distinctive linguistic characteristics?

• The Germanic loanwords in Proto-Slavic: origin and accentuation Research output

  This dissertation provides a thorough review of the words belonging to the oldest layer of Germanic loanwords in Proto-Slavic and answers the question of how these words were adapted to the Proto-Slavic accentual system.

• Summer School: Historical Performance Studies (5 ECTS) Course
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  Casper van Dijk PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Matthew Sung Research staff member

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Marina Terkourafi Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Siavash Rafiee Rad Assistant Professor Persian

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Hester Groot PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Jesse Wichers Schreur Guest researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Kate Bellamy Guest researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

• The Hittite Inherited Lexicon Research output

  This dissertation attempts to describe the linguistic history of Hittite on the basis of a systematic etymological treatment of its entire inherited lexicon, precisely analyzing the phonological and morphological developments.

• Adaptive performance practice of instrumental chamber music in German cities at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries Research project

  This research proposal focuses on historically informed performance (HIP) and adaptive performance practices within the late 18th-century German musical context.

• Letters confiscated from Dutch ships now online News - 13 September 2013

  More than a thousand 17th- and 18th-century Dutch letters from seized ships are now available online. The letters are a gold mine for researchers wanting to study the everyday language used by men and women during this period.

• Mongolic Phonology and the Qinghai-Gansu Languages Research output

  This dissertation provides an overview of the phonological developments of the Qinghai-Gansu languages, comparing them to the reconstructed ancestral language.

• Join our Information Evening in Leiden historic center (or online) Event - 15 November 2021
• Third oldest Papiamento text discovered News - 8 November 2012

  Leiden University researchers have discovered by chance a note from 1783 in Papiamento. They are working on a linguistic study on confiscated Dutch letters. The ‘Letters as loot’ project is headed by Professor Marijke van der Wal.

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  Rik van Gijn Associate professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Andrew Wigman Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Louise Friis
• La llamada del pasado: claves de la teoría de la historia Research output

  A Spanish translation of Herman Paul’s 'Key Issues in Historical Theory' has appeared under the title 'La llamada del pasado: claves de la teoría de la historia'.

• The Netherlands enthralled by Spanish theatre News - 7 June 2021

  Joost van den Vondel is considered to be the greatest Dutch poet and playwright of his time, but he certainly wasn’t the most popular. The 17th- and 18th-century public preferred to watch ‘Spanish theatre’. University lecturer Olga van Marion has written a book about this, together with Frans Blom (University…

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  Paz Gonzalez Gonzalez University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Stefan Norbruis Postdoc

  Faculty of Humanities

• Commonplace - Photographs from the Drummond-Fyvie Collection and the Ngilima Collection Research output

  Commonplace - Photographs from the Drummond-Fyvie Collection and the Ngilima Collection. By Tamsyn Adams and Sophie Feyder.

• Lindley Murray (1745–1826), Quaker and Grammarian Research output

  In this dissertation, a comprehensive portrait of the American-born Quaker Lindley Murray (1745–1826) is painted and the influence of Murray’s Quakerism on his language use is investigated by analyzing a corpus of 262 of his unpublished private letters.

• (Extra)Ordinary letters: A view from below on seventeenth-century Dutch Research output

  In this dissertation, a corpus of 595 seventeenth-century letters (mainly private ones) written between 1664 and 1672 is examined from a sociolinguistic perspective.

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  Alette Jansen