3,484 search results for “papua language and linguistics” in the Public website
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‘The sun never sets on our university'
Leiden University has partnerships in the local region, in the Netherlands, in Europe and with countries on almost all the world's continents. Students and researchers benefit from these partnerships, but society is also a beneficiary, says Rector Carel Stolker.
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Leiden University researchers receive Vidi grants
The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded Vidi grants to Leiden researchers.
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3 October University: big science for small people
‘I already gave a talk about planets when I was five.’ With the theme of the 3 October celebrations being ‘Jong geleerd is oud gedaan’ (meaning something like, ‘You’re never too young to learn’), this year’s 3 October University was especially for children. Many parents came with their offspring to…
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Two Dialogic Network lectures by Siavash Rafiee Rad and Keramat Fathinia
Lecture
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A conversation with Bonnie Honig on the defence of democracy
Bezoek
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On the degree adverb lǎo in Northeastern Mandarin
Lecture, CHiLL series
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HiSoN Summer School 2025
Conference, Summer School
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Splitting the imperative: what prohibitives tell us about the morpho-syntax of imperatives and negation
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Politeness in Commercial Settings in Abidjan: A Study of Speech Acts in Context
Lecture, Sociolinguistics and Discourse Studies Series
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Syria, one year after the revolution: The role of women and minorities
Lecture, Workshop
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Museum visit: A talk with Colombian Artist Nika Sorzano
Arts and culture
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Celtiberian and Lusitanian: Some Recent Findings
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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International Indology Graduate Research Symposium (IIGRS)
Symposium
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The spread of clicks throughout the Sotho lexicon: borrowing, insertion, and just a hint of regular sound change
Lecture, Descriptive Linguistics Seminars
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Towards a label-less grammar: Eradicating labels from the grammar
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Preposition Omission and Focus in German Fragments: A Case for a Q-Based Approach
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Working memory capacity predicts sensitivity to prosodic structure
Lecture, SMILE Talks
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Preverbal focus in Kîîtharaka revisited
Lecture, Descriptive Linguistics Seminars
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Fourth LUCL Retired & Kicking Symposium
Lecture, Retired & Kicking
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Sixth LUCL Retired & Kicking Symposium
Lecture, LUCL Retired and Kicking series
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L-PEG @ 10
Roundtable
- HANDS! Festival
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LTP Colloquium "Inferential expressivism and modality"
Lecture
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Second TEAL Workshop
Workshop | TEAL series
- Leiden City World Walks
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Chair of UN Studies in Peace and Justice
From 1 August 2018, Alanna O'Malley was appointed as Chair of United Nations Studies in Peace and Justice, focusing on the ‘lesser-known actors’ of the UN: women, the youth, the agents of informal diplomatic networks within the UN and actors from the Global South. This Special Chair has been created…
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Telling the story of Gaza
Lecture, Book presentation and Q&A
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Asia Academy #20: 75 Years of Korean War: The Long Shadow
Lecture, LAC Asia Academy
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Discover the Realities of North Korea: An Evening with Defectors Lee Young-Hyeon and Lee Byung-Lim
Lecture
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YALumni stories
Learn more about the former members of the Young Academy Leiden who contributed to a better position for young academics.
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Research
The Faculties of Leiden University have developed several themes for research cooperation between Leiden University and its Indonesian partners.
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On the source of polarity (in)sensitivity in the domain of degree modifiers
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Humanities PhD Symposium
Conference, Symposium
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The Role of Lexico-Syntactic Features in Noun Phrase Production and Comprehension
PhD defence
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The Rise and Fall of the Limburgish tone
Lecture, SMILE Talks
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Syntactic effects of negation — A’-interactions and more
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Phonological and Lexical Reconstruction of Proto South Omotic (PSO): Some of Proto South Omotic Phonological Systems Which Support the Omotic
Lecture, This Time for Africa! series
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Leiden Medievalists Blog meet-up
Lecture
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Snow, a mini-cortège and a new rector: a special Dies Natalis
No procession of professors, just a handful of people in the church and snowdrifts outside Leiden’s Pieterskerk: 8 February 2021 was no ordinary Dies Natalis. Carel Stolker transferred the rectorate to Hester Bijl, and Annetje Ottow became the new President of the Executive Board. With an honorary doctorate…
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University diversity policy is alive and kicking: ‘We need to acknowledge each other’s experiences’
Leiden University has had a diversity policy since 2014. The aim is to create a diverse and inclusive learning and working environment for all students and staff. Diversity Officer Aya Ezawa updates us on the process and the results. It’s now 2022, what has already changed?
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Herta Mohr lecture 2025: TT 217, the tomb of the sculptor Ipuy
Lecture, Herta Mohr Lecture
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Sociolinguistics Circle 2025
Conference
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AI & Humanities: ‘So much untapped potential’
The field of artificial intelligence has developed rapidly in recent years. We spoke with Stephan Raaijmakers, professor by special appointment in Communicative AI, about the impact of artificial intelligence and why everyone should pay more attention to developments in this field.
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Kim Beerden: 'The programme accreditation was good for the team spirit.'
Accreditations. All study programmes have to deal with them and once every six years they cause a good amount of tension. How do you survive the assessment panel? And how does an accreditation proceed in times of corona? Chair of education Kim Beerden recently coordinated the accreditation for the research…
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How do you give a memorable presentation? Martijn Wackers has the answer
What do people like Martin Luther King Jr. and Barack Obama have in common? They have mastered the art of public speaking. There are plenty of books on learning this skill, but one aspect of rhetoric remains underexposed in science: how do you make sure the audience remembers your message? Martijn Wackers…
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Focus on well-being at PhD event
'Make sure you separate yourself from your work.' And, 'Your dissertation doesn't have to be a magnum opus.' It was raining tips for PhD students at the humanities PhD event on well-being on Tuesday, 5 September.
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How live bloggers balance speed and credibility
PhD candidate Sebastiaan van de Lubben has written live blogs about Leiden politics. But how do you go about covering an event while it unfolds? ‘You don’t have time to think while you’re at it.’ Much proved to be unknown about this relatively new journalistic genre.
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Grand opening of renovated Arsenal building
The renovated Arsenal building, part of the Humanities Campus, has been in use since April 2020. The building was officially opened on Monday 13 June by Martijn Ridderbos, Vice-Chairman of the Executive Board, and Mark Rutgers, dean of the Faculty of Humanities.
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Digitisation: ignoring it is no longer an option
‘Jelena Prokic, university lecturer and researcher at the Leiden University Centre for Digital Humanities, will be preparing students for the challenges and opportunities of the digital world. In September, six modules will start on subjects such as statistics and digitally searching through texts.…
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Three ERC Advanced Grants for Leiden researchers
Archaeologist Frans Theuws, Buddhism specialist Jonathan Silk and mathematician Ronald Cramer have each been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant of 2.5 million euros.