1,209 search results for “gertjan language and culture” in the Student website
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Bram IevenFaculty of Humanities
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Tim SandersFaculty of Humanities
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Ab de JongFaculty of Humanities
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Wim van AnrooijFaculty of Humanities
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Mubarika NugraheniFaculty of Humanities
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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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Word by word, the first modern Japanese-Dutch dictionary is nearing completion
It was more than twenty years ago that the plan for a Japanese-Dutch dictionary was born. Now it contains over 65,000 words, and completion is tentatively coming into view. Dictionary makers Oscar Veltink and Hetty Geerdink-Verkoren talk about their enthusiasm for this decades-long mammoth task.
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Myra ArendsFaculty of Humanities
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Where does this Inca language come from? Verb conjugations should provide some answers
When university lecturer Martine Bruil was on exchange in Ecuador as a teenager, she fell in love with the area's ancient languages. Now, more than 20 years later, she is starting a research project on the kinship of the language Awapit with the Quechua language that was spread by the Incas.
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Student maps Chinese language variation
When Daan van Esch, master’s student in Chinese Studies, travelled through China last summer, he noticed that he often did not understand what the inhabitants of the different villages and cities were talking about. There turned out to be huge differences within the language. He decided to map this…
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Sander Bax: 'Literature doesn’t confine itself to national borders'
To truly understand Dutch literature, we have to look beyond borders. At least, that is the view of Sander Bax. From 1 August, he will be Professor of Contemporary Dutch Literature and Culture in a Transnational Dynamic.
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Arash MohammadavvaliFaculty of Humanities
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Ellen RavenFaculty of Humanities
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Reinier BaarsenFaculty of Humanities
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Elsa CharletySocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Nicky SchreuderFaculty of Archaeology
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Andrea RagragioSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Angelo RomanoSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Willem van WijkSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Simon WillmettsFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Leonor Faber-JonkerAfrican Studies Centre
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Robin OomkesFaculty of Humanities
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Peter MeelFaculty of Humanities
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Kiana ShahrasbiFaculty of Science
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Tom KouwenhovenFaculty of Science
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Stan van der BurghtFaculty of Humanities
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Patrick DegryseFaculty of Archaeology
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Dennis BosFaculty of Humanities
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James McGrailSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Yumeng WangFaculty of Science
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Maarten KossmannFaculty of Humanities
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Janet GrijzenhoutFaculty of Humanities
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Mert YazanFaculty of Science
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Hannah De MulderFaculty of Humanities
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European Day of Languages - Evening of Languages
Festival
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Tullio AbruzzeseFaculty of Archaeology
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Hans Thuis
Faculty of Humanities
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Steven Hagers
Faculty of Humanities
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Isabel Tanaka-van Daalen
Faculty of Humanities
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European grant for research into Indian scriptures: ‘This is what our understanding of Hinduism is based on’
Professor Peter Bisschop has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant. He will invest the 2.5 million euros in his research into puranas: ancient texts, commonly written in Sanskrit, that are up to fifteen hundred years old.
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Children's stories as a window to investigate empathy
Researcher Max van Duijn and PhD student Bram van Dijk apply language models to stories told by children to investigate empathy. For this research, they received the Best Paper Award at the Computational Natural Language Learning Conference in Singapore.
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How did Proto-Indo-European reach Asia?
Five thousand years before the common era (BCE), Proto-Indo-European, the mother of many languages that are spoken today in Europe, Central Asia and South Asia, originated in eastern Europe. PhD candidate Axel Palmér has combined a 175-year-old hypothesis with new techniques to demonstrate how descendants…
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Poetry Translation Competition: Fun and Games with Language
In November, Leiden organized a book presentation to celebrate the first Dutch translation of the collected works of the twentieth-century poet W.H. Auden. A poetry translation contest added lustre to the occasion. There were no fewer than three winners.
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Daybreak in Gaza - Stories of Palestinian Lives and Culture
Debate, BookTalk
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Talent for languages test: National Linguistics Olympiad puts language sense to the test for high school students
How would you convert Egyptian hieroglyphs into Latin script? And what is actually the correct translation of dishes on a Vietnamese menu? On Saturday 28 January, high school students from all over the Netherlands will come to Leiden to ponder a series of language-related puzzles. Their goal? To win…
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Alisa van de Haar: ‘People with linguistic skills have always played a very important role in society’
Who was professionally involved in language between 1550 and 1650? And what were the financial returns of this language sector? Assistant Professor Alisa van de Haar has received an ERC Starting Grant to map out the situation in Northwest Europe between 1550 and 1650.
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Zane Kripe
Faculty of Science
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grant for Xiaochen Zheng to explore cognitive control processes of language
'Psychologists think I’m a linguist but linguists think I’m a psychologist,' says cognitive neuroscientist Xiaochen Zheng. With the Veni grant she will be able to bring these two fields of research closer together. Read her answers to five questions.
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Leiden students help with primary school language lessons
De Regenboog primary school in The Hague has a high percentage of children whose first language is not Dutch. In the ‘Children of the City’ project, Education and Child Studies students help primary school children practise their Dutch.