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1,727 search results for “linguistics” in the Public website

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  Nancy Kula Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Debora Campos Wanderley Postdoc

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Hilde Gunnink Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Yiya Chen Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Janet Grijzenhout Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• World Congress of African Linguists (WOCAL): A conference like no other News - 13 May 2021

  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.

• Leiden through the eyes of… Summer School in Language and Linguistics students News - 10 August 2012

  The Leiden Summer School in Language and Linguistics is visited every year by many scholars worldwide. Four of the 120 participants of the 7th Summer School in 2012, share their view of Leiden.

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  Tian Yang PhD candidate / contract

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Longming Shichuan Contract PhD Candidate / Guest

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Arie Verhagen Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Adrien Dadone Postdoc

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Priscilla Lam PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Amos van Baalen PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Michaël Opgenhaffen University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Benjamin Suchard Guest researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Maarten Kossmann Associate professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Maria del Carmen Parafita Couto Guest reseacher

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Martin Kroon Guest researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Martijn Lemmen PhD candidate / guest

  Faculty of Humanities

• Navigating Linguistic Diversity: Community Languages and Social Inclusion in the Netherlands News - 26 November 2025

  Online presentation

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  Xuan Tang PhD candidate / Contract

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Olga Lundysheva PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Matthew Sung PhD candidate / contract

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Kate Bellamy Postdoctoral Researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

• The nature of evidentiality Research project

  This project launches a research program into the theoretical status and the terminological basis of evidentiality systems.

• Chinese Final Particles and the Syntax of the Periphery Research output

  In this research, for the first time a detailed description as well as systematic and comparative analysis of the final particle system in Chinese are provided.

• The dynamics of light verbs in the history of West Germanic languages Research project

  The main question of this research project concerns the extent to which light verbs in West Germanic languages participate in processes of language change.

• Versatility of phonemic pitch in affective iconicity and perceptual reorganisation Research output

  On the 19th of November, Tingting Zheng successfully defended a doctoral thesis. Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Tingting on this achievement!

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  Tijmen Pronk Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• Tonal Bilingualism: The Case of Two Closely Related Chinese Dialects Research output

  Tonal bilinguals of two closely related Chinese dialects are amazing people. They handle two tonal systems in their mind; their two vocabularies are from closely related dialects, and they write translation equivalents with common Chinese characters. Their unique language situation makes their mind…

• An experimental approach to the interaction of tone sandhi and focus expression in six dialects of Chinese Research project

  This project employs a systematic experimental approach to examine the interaction of these two hitherto independent lines of research (tone sandhi and focus realization) in six dialects of Chinese, which lie on a continuum between dialects with dense tonal distributions and sparser distributions. In…

• Verbal art of the Fon (Benin) Research output

  This publication aims at the analysis of the performance of a corpus of Fongbe stories that I collected in three villages in the south of Benin in 1976 and 1977. The corpus consists of 37 stories (57.000 words). The stories aim at children’s education.

• Flat but not shallow. Towards flatter representations in deep semantic parsing for precise and feasible inferencing Research output

  Simulating human language understanding on the computer is a great challenge. A way to approach it is to represent natural language meanings in logic, and to use logical provers to determine what does and does not follow from a text. What logic is best to use and how natural language meanings are best…

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  Guus Kroonen Associate professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• I 'Disticha Catonis' di Catenaccio da Anagni. Testo in volgare laziale (secc. XIII ex. - XIV in.) Research output

  The Disticha Catonis by Catenaccio of Anagni. A text in vernacular from Latium (late 13th - early 14th century)

• A grammar of Bantawa: Grammar, paradigm tables, glossary and texts of a Rai language of Eastern Nepal Research output

  This dissertation provides a comprehensive overview of the grammar of Bantawa, a Kiranti (Rai) language spoken in Eastern Nepal.

• Modelling phonologization: Vowel reduction and epenthesis in Lunigiana dialects Research output

  This dissertation provides a formal description of the relationship between diatopic/diachronic micro-variation and phonologization through analysis of the phonetic/phonological properties of unstressed vowel reduction and vowel insertion in two Northern Italian dialects.

• On the nature of preverbal Focus in Greek. A theoretical and experimental approach Research output

  This thesis aims at contributing to our understanding of the semantic and prosodic properties of object foci in Greek, employing theoretical and experimental tools.

• 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.

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  Alwin Kloekhorst Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• Splitting and clustering grammatical information Research project

  This project focuses on a striking parallelism between two macro-groups of languages: southern Italian dialects and the so-called split-ergative languages, like Basque, Georgian, Dyirbal, Hindi/Urdu.

• A Grammar of Ghomara Berber Research output

  This dissertation provides a grammatical description of Ghomara Berber, a Berber language spoken in North-West Morocco by about 10.000 people. The grammar consists of a description of the phonology, the morphology and the syntax. In the appendices a number of texts and a wordlist are included. The data…

• Under Construction. Cognitive and Computational Aspects of Extended Lexical Units Research output

  This dissertation investigates Extended Lexical Units (ELUs), elements that are bigger than just one word and which are stored in the Lexicon.

• Die biblisch-hebräische Partikel נָא im Lichte der antiken Bibelübersetzungen. Unter besonderer Berücksichtigung ihrer vermuteten Höflichkeitsfunktion Research output

  My research addresses the function of the much-debated particle -nā in Biblical Hebrew, often translated with “please”, from the point of view of the most important ancient Bible translations (Greek, Syriac, Latin). It combines textual criticism, translation technique, discourse pragmatics, and the…

• The Syntax of Heads and Phrases - A Study of Verb (Phrase) Fronting Research output

  This dissertation defends the existence of a type of movement that has so far been considered not to be possible, namely, movement of a bare head to a specifier position over arbitrarily long distances.

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  Paz Gonzalez Gonzalez University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Siavash Rafiee Rad Assistant Professor Persian

  Faculty of Humanities

• Word processing in languages using non-alphabetic scripts: The cases of Japanese and Chinese Research output

  This thesis investigates the processing of words written in Japanese kanji and Chinese hànzì, i.e. logographic scripts.

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  Jesse Wichers Schreur Guest researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

• The development of the Proto-Indo-European syllabic liquids in Greek Research output

  Ancient Greek was spoken in a large number of different dialects. Although we do not find direct evidence for syllabic liquids in any of our sources, comparative evidence shows that these sounds must have been present in Proto-Greek, and that they were retained until comparatively recently in the prehistory…