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

  A linguistic test of hypotheses rooted in genetics and archaeology.

• 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

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  Jin Hee Park University Lecturer Korean

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Olga Nozdracheva PhD candidate / contract

  Faculty of Humanities

• 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.

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  Jesse Wichers Schreur Guest researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Janet Connor Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Stefan Norbruis Postdoc

  Faculty of Humanities

• 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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  Naomi Truan Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• 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?

• 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?

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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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  Yinzhi Zhang Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Debora Campos Wanderley Postdoc

  Faculty of Humanities

• 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.

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  Nivja de Jong Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• 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.

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  Victoria Nyst Associate professor

  Afrika-Studiecentrum

• 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.

• 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…

• Simone van der Hof gave a presentation about privacy by design and children's rights in London News - 28 November 2017

  On November 17, 2017, Professor Simone van der Hof gave a duo lecture with her colleague Professor Eva Lievens from Ghent University during the 'Children and Digital Rights' conference at the Information Law and Policy Centre, which is part of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (University of L…

• 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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  Wilt Idema Emeritus Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Deborah Oyuu PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

• 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

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  Hester Groot PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Nancy Kula Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Thijs Porck Associate professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• 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…

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  Natasja Delbar PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Priscilla Lam PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Hilde Gunnink Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Aleksandra Uttenweiler PhD candidate / self funded

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Benjamin Suchard Guest researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

• 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.

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  Martine Bruil University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Niels Schoubben Postdoc

  Faculty of Humanities