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• stop sounds at the intersection of phonetics, phonology, language variation and language change Research project

  A project on phonology, phonetics, and the space between them.

• Prescription and Tradition in Language: Establishing Standards across Time and Space Research output

  This book contextualises case studies across a wide variety of languages and cultures, crystallising key interrelationships between linguistic standardisation and prescriptivism, and between ideas and practices. It focuses on different traditions of standardisation and prescription throughout the world…

• The prehistoric origin and spread of the Indo-Iranian languages Research project

  A linguistic test of hypotheses rooted in genetics and archaeology.

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  Eduardo Alves Vieira University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Nargess Asghari PhD candidate / guest

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Manolis Fragkiadakis Postdoc

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Ae Ree Nam Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

• Cattle-talk: the language of colour among East African pastoralists Research project

  What categories exist in the languages of pastoralists? Do these semantic concepts reflect universal or languagespecific tendencies? What (environment? culture?) governs the similarities (or the differences) attested crosslinguistically in cattle colour systems?

• A grammar of Ik (Icetod) Northeast Uganda’s last thriving Kuliak language Research output

  This study offers a comprehensive but balanced grammatical analysis of Ik (Icetod), Northeast Uganda’s last thriving Kuliak language.

• Walikan Malangan: Structure and development of a Javanese reversed language Research output

  On the 24th of October, Nurenzia Yannuar successfully defended her doctoral thesis and graduated. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Nurenzia on this achievement.

• A Sociolinguistic Study of an Ewe-based Youth Language of Aflao, Ghana Research output

  On the 26th of September, Cosmas Rai Amenorvi successfully defended a doctoral thesis. Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Cosmas on this achievement!

• What is shared and what is unique in language and music Research project

  Knowledge and culture subproject 1:

• Lazy Mindreader: a new perspective on “mindreading” from the study of language and narrative Research project

  How is social cognition shaped by our knowledge of language and stories?

• Traces of language contact in Niya Prakrit: Bactrian and other foreign elements Research output

  On the 6th of November, Niels Schoubben successfully defended a doctoral thesis. Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Niels on this achievement!

• psychosocial development of children with and without Developmental Language Disorder Research output

  Dissertation

• Dynamic Testing and the Relation with School performance and Language difficulties. Research project

  What is the effect of a dynamic training in children’s inductive reasoning skills and how is it related to children’s school performances and language development.

• A Grammar of Gaahmg, a Nilo-Saharan Language of Sudan Research output

  This thesis investigates the grammar of Gaahmg, a Nilo-Saharan, Eastern Sudanic language spoken in the Blue Nile Province of North Sudan. The comprehensive description provides an analysis of the phonology, morphology, and syntax. Ten texts of various genre are given to help illustrated the grammar…

• Language contact: bridging the gap between individual interactions and areal patterns Research output

  A new publication that brings together perspectives on language contact phenomena across temporal and spatial dimensions.

• Understanding the brain via language News - 23 January 2018

  Professor Jenny Doetjes at Leiden University researches similarities and differences in languages, specifically in the area of numerals and quantifiers. Her research provides insight into language patterns, bu also in the working of the human brain. Inaugural lecture on 26 January.

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  Yinzhi Zhang Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Ben Arps Professor Indonesian and Javanese Language and Culture

  Faculty of Humanities

• Pride and Prejudice: Moral Languages in Scholarly Codes of Conduct, 1900-2000 Research project

  If idioms employed in codes of conduct could be as idiosyncratic as examples suggest, then to what extent did early modern language of vice, too, persist in this genre?

• Falling Short of Expectations: Evaluative Languages in Scholarly Book Reviews, 1900-2000 Research project

  What evaluative languages (errors, mistakes, vices, etc.) did book reviewers employ? To what extent and on what occasions did they invoke early modern vices? And to what extent did this differ across fields or change over the course of the century?

• signers in the development of channel specific structures in sign languages of deaf communities HANDS!Lab for Sign Languages and Deaf Studies

  In this project, the hypothesis that language contact crucially impacts the development of spatial grammar and phonology is investigated.

• From Text to Knowledge: Language Models for Knowledge Graph Extraction and Ontology Learning Research project

  This PhD project investigates how language models can be used to extract structured knowledge from text in a way that is accurate, robust, and applicable to real-world use cases.

• Profile 2. Settlement history of the Frisia in the Middle Ages Research output

  The narrow but long stretched stript of Frisian land along the North Sea was already occupied before Roman times. However, man repeatedly suffered setbacks when he tried to extend his living space, both in the tidal marshes and the peat area south of them.

• Object shift in the Scandinavian languages: syntax, information structure, and intonation Research output

  This thesis discusses the constructions relevant to Object Shift from the intonational perspective, by presenting experimental data from all the Scandinavian languages.

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  Axel Palmér Guest researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

• The Golden Mean of Languages; Forging Dutch and French in the Early Modern Low Countries (1540-1620) Research output

  In The Golden Mean of Languages, Alisa van de Haar sheds new light on the debates regarding the form and status of the vernacular in the early modern Low Countries, where both Dutch and French were local tongues. The fascination with the history, grammar, spelling, and vocabulary of Dutch and French…

• Essays on African languages and linguistics : in honour of Maarten Mous Research output

  This book celebrates Maarten Mous, professor of African Linguistics at Leiden University.

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  Azeb Amha Lecturer

  African Studies Centre

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  Hester Groot PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  I-Fan Lin PhD candidate

  Faculty of Science

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  Liza van den Bosch Assistant professor

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

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  Anouschka van Dijk PhD candidate

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

• Babies' hearing important in language deficiency News - 19 March 2018

  During the first year of life, babies adapt to the language they hear around them. In the event of hearing difficulties, this can lead to a language deficiency, which is not so easy to resolve, says Professor of English Linguistics Janet Grijzenhout. Inaugural lecture 19 March.

• Languages of Resistance, Transformation, and Futurity in Mediterranean Crisis-Scapes Research output

  From Crisis to Critique

• Clause linkage in Ket Research output

  This work provides a typologically oriented description of clause linkage strategies in Ket, a highly endangered language spoken in Central Siberia. It is now the only surviving member of the Yeniseian language family with the last remaining speakers residing in the north of Russia’s Krasnoyarsk pro…

• Language, law and loanwords in early medieval Gaul: language contact and studies in Gallo-Romance phonology Research output

  On October 9th, Peter Alexander Kerkhof succesfully defended his doctoral thesis and graduated. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Peter Alexander on this great result.

• Language as a time machine News - 6 February 2015

  About 90 per cent of Austronesian and Papuan languages are under threat of soon becoming extinct. Marian Klamer is the only professor in the world who researches both these language groups. She records languages before they disappear and sheds new light on the history of Indonesia. Inaugural lecture…

• How Arabic influenced Berber, and the typology of contact-induced change Research project

  This project investigates the influence that Arabic (esp. dialectal Arabic) has had on the Berber languages of Northern Africa.

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  Stefan Norbruis Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Jesse Wichers Schreur Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Janet Connor Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  I-Hsien Lin Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Adrien Dadone Postdoc

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Naomi Truan Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade Professor emeritus English Sociohistorical Linguistics

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Aleksandra Uttenweiler PhD candidate / self funded

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Nivja de Jong Professor Second language Acquisition and Pedagogy

  Faculty of Humanities