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• The Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Golden Horde Research project

  Did the Jochids leave their mark on the Grand Duchy, taking into account that the Lithuanian state was one of the main successor states of the Great Horde in the 16thCentury?

• Education Centre for Linguistics

  Studying linguistics at the Leiden University Centre of Linguistics (LUCL) is a challenging but rewarding experience. There are few places in the world where such a broad range of languages are studied from so many different perspectives.

• (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.

• Modification and Reference in the Chinese Nominal Research output

  This study proposes a theory for the encoding of specificity and definiteness in the Chinese nominal based on Cantonese, Mandarin and Wenzhou data.

• 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?

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  Michaël Peyrot Professor Comparative Indo-European Linguistics

  Faculty of Humanities

• ‘I didn't do any self-censorship' News - 3 April 2013

  President Putin will be officially opening the Netherlands–Russia Year on 8 April in Amsterdam. Leiden Slavist Sjeng Scheijen was responsible for putting together the cultural programme. How much freedom did he have in doing so? ‘The Dutch photography project on the demolition of Sochi districts was…

• Why Leiden University Russian and Eurasian Studies (MA)

  Leiden University offers ambitious students the latest knowledge and the freedom to develop their own area of expertise.

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  Hilde Gunnink Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Marian Klamer Director PhD programs / Professor Austronesian and Papuan Linguistics

  Faculty of Humanities

• Documentation and analysis of !Ora and !Ui languages Research project

  This project aims at describing the Khoisan languages !Ora (Korana/Griqua) and !Ui of South Africa.

• A Typology of Verbal Derivation in Ethiopian Afro-Asiatic Languages Research output

  The general objective of this thesis is to determine a typology of verbal derivation in Ethiopian Afro-asiatic languages.

• Network Central Asia Initiative

  Below you can find lists of Leiden-based and international organizations working on Central Asia, and an overview of useful resources on Central Asia.

• Non-canonical gender systems Research project

  Grammatical gender is famously the most puzzling of the grammatical categories. We have a solid typology of gender systems, yet exciting and unexpected patterns keep turning up which defy easy classification and straightforward analysis. Some of these question, stretch or threaten to cross the outer…

• A grammar of Tafi Research output

  This book presents the first comprehensive description of Tafi, one of the fourteen Ghana-Togo Mountain (GTM) languages, spoken by approximately 4,400 people in the southeastern part of Ghana. The description consists of thirteen chapters and is based on a corpus gathered during two fieldwork periods…

• Study at LUCAS Centre for the Arts in Society

  LUCAS members are experts in the fields of literary history and theory, film and media studies, and art, architectural, and book history. Members of LUCAS teach in a wide variety of Bachelor's, Master’s, and Research Master’s Programmes.

• Prepare for your studies Russian and Eurasian Studies (MA)

  You’ve been accepted! Leiden University looks forward to welcoming you as a new student. Your next step is to prepare for your studies. Below you can find some tips to help you get a head start as you embark on your studies at Leiden University.

• Meet our staff European Politics and Society (MA)

• The Travel of Ideas in the Age of Steam and Print: The Ottoman Caliphate versus Wahhabism and Mahdism Research output

  Ömer Koçyigit defended his thesis on 7 July 2020

• Information activities Russian and Eurasian Studies (MA)

  Get to know us through our online and in-person events for prospective students!

• Meet our staff Global Conflict in the Modern Era (MA)

• International thesis award for Leiden student Linguistics News - 28 June 2016

  Umberto Selva, a Leiden graduate of the Research MA program of Linguistics, has received for his thesis the international award for best MA thesis in the field of Comparative Indo-European Linguistics of the year 2015.

• Rob de Wijk: 'EU wants to end dependence on Russian gas' News - 26 October 2018

  On Energiepodium.nl, Rob de Wijk, Professor of International Relations and Security at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs, states that the Nord Stream 2 Project, a pipeline for Russian gas into Europe, causes a conflict between geopolitics and commerce.

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  Tian Yang PhD candidate / contract

  Faculty of Humanities

• Focus and ellipsis Research project

  This project aims at investigating the syntactic role of focus in ellipsis across languages.

• Studies in Armenian Etymology with Special Emphasis on Dialects and Culture Research output

  This dissertation provides an up to date description of the Indo European lexical stock of Armenian (ca. 500 entries) with systematic inclusion of unused data that are found in Armenian dialects.

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  Sophia Nauta PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Arie Verhagen Professor emeritus Language, Culture, and Cognition

  Faculty of Humanities

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  M. Y. Priscilla Lam PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Benjamin Storme Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Maarten Kossmann Professor of Berber Studies

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Michaël Opgenhaffen University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Amos van Baalen PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Janet Grijzenhout Professor English Linguistics

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Siavash Rafiee Rad University Lecturer Persian

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Yiya Chen Professor Phonetics

  Faculty of Humanities

• Janet Grijzenhout appointed as Professor English Linguistics News - 14 March 2017

  Dr. Janet Grijzenhout (Universität Konstanz) was appointed Professor English Linguistics and will be working at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL).

• The Phonology of Proto-Central Chadic Research output

  This study looks at the diverse phonological systems found within Central Chadic, and reconstructs the phonological system of their ancestor language.

• The Slovene dialect of Egg and Potschach in the Gailtal, Austria Research output

  A synchronic description of the endangered Slovene dialect spoken in the Gailtal valley in Carinthia, Austria.

• Horace Walpole and his correspondents; Social network analysis in a historical context Research output

  The current study focuses on Walpole’s social network and the language as contained in the letters of the network members.

• Cognitive reference points. Semantics Beyond the Prototypes in Adjectives of Space and Colour Research output

  This doctoral thesis elaborates Langacker’s reference-point model by applying it to lexical semantics.

• A Grammar of the Thangmi Language with an Ethnolinguistic Introduction to the Speakers and their Culture Research output

  This 862-page monograph is a grammar of Thangmi, an endangered Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the districts of Dolakha and Sindhupalcok in central-eastern Nepal.

• Research Centre for Linguistics

  Research at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL) focuses on linguistic variation and diversity. In order to create more awareness and scientific understanding of this topic, research activities are clustered around six (overlapping) umbrella programmes. Many of our researchers are active…

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  Benjamin Suchard Guest researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Martijn Lemmen PhD candidate / guest

  Faculty of Humanities

• Alor-Pantar languages: origins and theoretical impact Research project

  This research project focuses on the extended documentation and investigation of these non-Austronesian (‘Papuan’) languages.

• How the rise of AI is creating new opportunities for computational linguists News - 20 February 2024

  With the rise of AI, interest in computational linguistics and language models has taken flight. But machines are far from being able to go it alone. In her inaugural lecture, Professor Carole Tiberius will stress the importance of research on word combinations. ‘We know a great deal but there is a…

• A Grammar of Mandarin Research output

  A fascinating description of a global language, A Grammar of Mandarin by Jeroen Wiedenhof combines broad perspectives with illuminating depth.

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  Maria del Carmen Parafita Couto University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Tina Cambier-Langeveld Guest Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities