3,670 search results for “austronesian language and linguistics” in the Public website
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Research in an imperial setting by Niels Bakhuis
The new Hugo Weiland Thesis Prize of the Foundation for Austrian Studies is a prize in honour of the long time effort and incentive for the foundation of Mr Weiland and is to be awarded to successful theses dedicated to topics that relate to the history, culture, and politics of Austria and Central…
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Postdoc Adam Benfer stewards big data in the study of Central America
In the spring of 2024 the Faculty of Archaeology welcomed a new postdoc. Dr Adam Benfer, originally from the United States, occupies a double position as a researcher in the project of Alex Geurds and as the Faculty’s Data Steward. ‘It is pretty much what the title says: I steward data. Essentially,…
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The public manager in the 21st century
Managers in the public and semi-public sector work in an increasingly complex and unpredictable environment, which demands new knowledge and competences but also offers tremendous opportunities. This will be the view presented by Zeger van der Wal, professor by special appointment in Public Administration,…
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Global Interactions welcomes five new postdocs in 2016
In November of last year Global Interactions made offers to five out of nearly 90 applicants for our grant-writing postdocs. We are pleased to announce that all have accepted and will be joining various Leiden institutes this year. The five postdocs are Katia Hay, Johannes Müller, Maria-Paz Peirano,…
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Karin Aalderink: ‘It is very satisfying to help students on their way’
Her love for China made her study Chinese and go on an exchange trip in her third year of studies. As an Outbound Student Coordinator at the Humanities International Office, Karin Aalderink (45) now supervises students who go abroad.
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Content key factor in choosing a master’s programme
Last Friday was Master’s Open Day time once again. Students from home and abroad descended on Leiden and The Hague to find out more about our master’s programmes. Alongside the presentations, the information fairs gave them a good opportunity to ask any questions.
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Alumnus Shivan Shazad: 'I would like to have been a member of a diversity and inclusion committee'
It was his thesis supervisor during his master's in Film and Photographic Studies who encouraged Shivan Shazad to pursue a second master's in diversity policy at Ghent. He is now Manager of Diversity and Inclusion at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
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Doing science in the mud at Lowlands
Conducting experiments next to the huge speakers of the Alpha Stage at Lowlands. This was reality for researchers Max van Duijn and Tessa Verhoef, and they were loving it. 'Yesterday evening we were completely covered in mud.'
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Value of science the focus of 448th Dies Natalis
The importance of science communication and cross-boundary collaboration, and the ‘mantra’ of diminishing social cohesion in society: these all came up at Leiden University’s 448th Dies Natalis. A panel discussion including Leiden’s mayor Lenferink, music and two honorary doctorates completed the special…
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Not only full professors: the entire examining committee can now wear academic dress
Permission was recently given for all members of the examining committee and co-supervisors at PhD ceremonies to wear academic dress, even if they’re not full professors. How historic is this change?
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‘The university has many roots in the colonial past. How deep and wide were they?’
Historians recently started preliminary research on Leiden University’s role in colonialism and historical slavery. Our knowledge about this is too limited and fragmented. They are looking with fresh eyes at Leiden’s archives and collections. An interview with historians Alicia Schrikker and Ligia G…
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Asia Academy #15: North Korea's Gamble
Lecture, LAC Asia Academy
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Racism versus Socialism in Cuba
Lecture, Discussion
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The End of Democracy? Latin American Perspectives on a Global Crisis
Debate, Panel discussion
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Asia Academy #17: South Korea's Political Rollercoaster
Lecture, LAC Asia Academy
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Towards a Polymaternal State: Sheinbaum, Stepmotherhood and the Mexican Presidency
Lecture
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Word order, information structure and agreement in Teke-Kukuya
PhD defence
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2. Measuring Dialect Distances & Distance Matrices
Course, Introduction to Dialectometry (2024)
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These kind of words: number agreement in the species noun phrase in International Academic English
PhD defence
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Tsuvadi Gender: A mixed form- and semantic-based system
Lecture, This Time For Africa! series
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The lexico-semantic representation of words in the mental lexicon
PhD defence
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Discourse sensitivity in argument realization
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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The “White Dialect” of young Arabic speakers from Qassim (Saudi Arabia)
PhD defence
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Contemporary Approaches in Dialectology
Lecture, Special Topics in Dialectology (2023)
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5. Contemporary Approaches in Computational Dialectology
Course, Introduction to Dialectometry (2024)
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Special: Introduction to Chinese Dialectology
Lecture, Special Topics in Dialectology (2023)
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Van struikelblok naar bouwsteen
PhD defence
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Anatolian evidence for the reconstruction of the Proto-Indo-European 1st and 2nd plural personal pronouns
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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Dutch Grammar in Japanese Words
PhD defence
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Liveblog as Genre in Pursuit of Credibility
PhD defence
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Verfransing onder de loep
PhD defence
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The pre-Roman elements of the Sardinian lexicon
PhD defence
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Instrumentos musicais nas línguas bantu e a herança no português do Brasil
PhD defence
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Isoglosses and Diffusion
Lecture, Special Topics in Dialectology (2023)
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1. What is dialectometry? Why dialectometry?
Course, Introduction to Dialectometry (2024)
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Career opportunities PhD's outside academia
Lecture
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LUCDH FAIR Workshop with Kristina Hettne and Peter Verhaar
Workshop
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Responding to accusations of national disloyalty. Confrontational maneuvering in Dutch plenary debates on EU issues
PhD defence
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N400 as an index of semantic feature preactivation
Lecture, LACG Meetings
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Arguing against accusations of national disloyalty. Analyzing sequences of confrontational maneuvering in Dutch plenary debates on EU issues
PhD defence
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3. Cluster Analysis & Multidimensional Scaling
Course, Introduction to Dialectometry (2024)
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A ruki mistake? From aporia to apriorism
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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Life of Phi: Phi-features in West Germanic and the syntax-morphology interface
PhD defence
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Tunen syntax and information structure
PhD defence
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The activation and selection of lexico-syntactic features in speech production
PhD defence
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The persistence of space: Formalizing the polysemy of spatial relations in functional elements
PhD defence
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Versatility of Phonemic Pitch in Affective Iconicity and Perceptual Reorganization
PhD defence
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Studies in Tocharian verbal morphology relevant to the cladistic position of Tocharian in Indo-European
PhD defence
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Ama – a warrior deity in the Avesta, his name and functions, and their Indo-Iranian and Indo-European backgrounds
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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Like Dust on the Silk Road
PhD defence