1,230 search results for “austronesian language and linguistics” in the Staff website
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Joosje WesselsFaculty of Humanities
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Yanan Wang
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Jiahui Liang
Faculty of Humanities
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Jian SunFaculty of Humanities
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NWO Open Competition for research on inclusive religion and identity: 'Impact on LGBTQIA+ community still underexplored'
What is the impact of religion and its discourse on the lives of queer people in countries where LGBTQIA+ individuals are not accepted? University Lecturer Eduardo Alves Vieira wants to know just that. With an NWO-grant, he will take a closer look at the inclusive religion movement in Brazil.
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Neele Boelens: ‘I think it is important to get young people to vote’
Neele Boelens is a board member at DWARS, the youth organisation of political party GroenLinks. In addition, she is studying towards two degrees at Leiden University: Linguistics and Public Administration. A busy year, especially with the upcoming elections.
- This Time for Africa! series
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From judge to police officer: a lack of understanding for deaf people in legal proceedings
The cultural linguistic minority group of deaf people who communicate using sign language systematically experiences limited access to fundamental rights. Linguist Joni Oyserman identified this problem and has received a Meijers grant to fund her investigation.
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Creating a sign language out of everything and everywhere: An example from the deaf people of Bissau
PhD defence
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Octogenarian underground poets, political language turned on its head, and more: unofficial poetry from China in Digital Collections
Over 30.000 pages of new material have been added to the online collection of unofficial poetry publications from China in the Leiden Digital Collections. Produced outside the system, these journals and books are hugely influential yet very hard to find. To address this paradox, Leiden University Libraries…
- International conference on Russian-language literature in emigration
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Historical implications of argument marking patterns in the Guaporé-Mamoré area
Lecture, Language and the Human Past
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English Department turns 75: English Studies alive and kicking in Leiden
At the end of May, the Leiden English Language and Culture Programme, formerly known as the Department of English Language and Literature, celebrated its 75th anniversary (starting from the appointment of the first professor of English Studies). Over 220 alumni, staff present and past, and students…
- Teaching East Asian Languages (TEAL): Challenges, Ideas and Innovations
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Oriol Febrer i Vilaseca
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Christoph PieperFaculty of Humanities
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Understanding the role of prosody at multiple levels of linguistic organization: Experimental and crosslinguistic insights
Lecture, SMILE Talks
- Advisory group Work Balance
- Overview faculty institutes and key-users
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Formants are better predictors of vowel markedness than features
Lecture, SMILE - Experimental Linguistics series
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Alp YenenFaculty of Humanities
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Deontic from Portuguese, Epistemic from Tupi: The Emergence of Modality in Brazil's Línguas Gerais
Lecture, Descriptive Linguistics Seminars
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Maartje van der Woude appointed Mercator Fellow in Göttingen
Professor of Law and Society Maartje van der Woude has been appointed as a Mercator Fellow at the University of Göttingen’s research group Mobility Rights in the Global Context of Multiple Crises, which studies human rights and migration in times of crisis.
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Four Vici grants for Leiden University researchers
Four researchers from Leiden University have been awarded prestigious Vici grants the Dutch Research Council (NWO) has announced. The honoured applications are from researchers at the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Leiden Observatory, the LUMC and the Faculty of Archaeology.
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Five pilot interdisciplinary modules for professionals to start in 2024
Leiden University is known for its pioneering research and teaching. By offering education to professionals (lifelong learning), we want to bring this research and teaching expertise to the field and thus further increase our impact on society. With the aid of a grant from Leiden University Academy,…
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Joni OysermanFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Daniëlle van der Schaaf
Faculty of Humanities
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Vici grants for seven researchers from Leiden University
From research on stellar winds to sign language: an impressive seven researchers from Leiden University will receive a prestigious Vici grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO).
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The wisdom of the Nahua
Indigenous philosophies have been ignored for too long. This prompted Osiris González Romero to study the wisdom of the Nahua in Mexico. Their philosophy has an important message for the consumption society: see the earth and nature as living beings and not just as resources. PhD defence 22 June.
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ChatGPT has left-wing bias in Stemwijzer voting advice application
The AI chatbot ChatGPT has a clear left-liberal bias when filling in the Stemwijzer voting advice application. This was discovered by master's student Merel van den Broek during an assignment for the Machine Learning for Natural Language Processing course.
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In memoriam: Takamitsu Muraoka (1938-2026)
On February 10, 2026, emeritus Professor Dr. Takamitsu Muraoka (1938–2026) passed away, one day after celebrating his 88th birthday. From 1991 until his retirement in 2003, he held the chair of Hebrew Language and Culture, Israelite Antiquities, and Ugaritic at Leiden University.
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Do – Re – Mi – Fa – Tone! The fluidity of tone and Ubuntu Linguistics
Inaugural lecture
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47th Symposium on Old English, Middle English and Historical Linguistics (#SOEMEHL47)
Conference
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From Azerbaijani to Swedish: ‘Multilingualism improves your understanding of others’
September 26 is the European Day of Languages. There are 24 official languages in Europe but some 200 languages in total are spoken on our continent. What good are all these different languages? And should we all learn Azerbaijani or Swedish? We asked Lisa Cheng, Professor of General Linguistics.
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In memoriam: Vincent van Heuven (1949-2026)
Vincent van Heuven passed away unexpectedly on Friday 6 February 2026 at the age of 76 at his home in Kûbaard (Friesland), the Netherlands.
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From Japan Studies to junior school: ‘I was back to square one in the classroom’
It was while wearing clogs at a Dutch theme park in Japan that Cindy Heijdra really got to know Japan. Over 20 years later, she is studying again: to be a primary school teacher.
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Jully Acuña Suarez
Faculty of Humanities
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Sara Clarrise Noussi-Tegantchouang Njomgang
Faculty of Humanities
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Vicky AlcaldeFaculty of Humanities
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Anooshik Maleki Bakhshmandi
Faculty of Humanities
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Emma Bierings
Faculty of Humanities
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Andries van HeldenFaculty of Humanities
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Roosmaryn PilgramFaculty of Humanities
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Rob GoedemansFaculty of Humanities
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Marijke Baart-LigtvoetFaculty of Humanities
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Marijke van der WalFaculty of Humanities
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Leticia de Pedro Andrés
Faculty of Humanities
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Jeanne Giberius-Vignaud
Faculty of Humanities
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Liesbet WinkelmolenFaculty of Humanities
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Rossana Hoogendoorn-Gagliano
Faculty of Humanities