1,233 search results for “austronesian language and linguistics” in the Staff website
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Cattle, rather than geometric shapes, determine how the Hamar see the world
Sara Petrollino, a university lecturer in linguistics, strongly believes that language influences the way we see the world. An NWO Open Competition (XS) grant will enable her to test this hypothesis among the Ethiopian Hamar people. ‘The idea that everyone thinks in geometric shapes is culturally de…
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Charlotte van der VoortFaculty of Humanities
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Rogier CreemersFaculty of Humanities
- Descriptive Linguistics Seminars
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Olaf KaperFaculty of Humanities
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What is citizenship? Classical Languages help find the answer
A European project should help reinvigorate Latin teaching in secondary schools. 'By focusing on citizenship, we want to show that Latin is relevant to discussions about citizenship and migration.'
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Louis Verreth -
European Day of Languages - Evening of Languages
Festival
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Pablo Isla MonsalveFaculty of Humanities
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Tessa MearnsICLON
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Inge KrausFaculty of Humanities
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Maria van der Schaar - Sign Languages and Deaf People (SL&D) lecture series
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Irene Van EldereFaculty of Humanities
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Olga van MarionFaculty of Humanities
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Goran BouazizFaculty of Humanities
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Emmanuelle RadarFaculty of Humanities
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Rint SybesmaFaculty of Humanities
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Una Europa project update: Enhancing Scholarship in Eastern Africa (ELSEA)
In September, the Una Europa ELSEA project, Enhancing Scholarship in Eastern Africa, officially started. Now that the project has been running for a couple of months, it’s high time to check in and see how the project is going.
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History and change in Sign Language Phonology
Lecture
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Important findings in plain language: Leiden University introduces lay talk
PhD ceremonies in the Academy Building will be much easier for family, friends and other non-specialist audience members to follow after the summer. The Doctorate Board is pleased to have decided that as of 1 September, all Leiden PhD candidates will begin their PhD defence with a lay talk. ‘It can…
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Poster presentation Linguistic Fieldwork B
Exhibition
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Sign language emergence and diachronic change
Conference, Leiden-Birmingham Lectures
- From Afrikaans to Ukrainian: take a free language class with Una Europa
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Michael NewtonFaculty of Humanities
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Who spoke what language in north-western sixth-century China?
Fifteen hundred years ago, the north-west of what we now call China was a jumble of peoples. How did those Indians, Khotanese and Tocharians influence each other and each other's languages? Associate professor Michaël Peyrot has been awarded an ERC grant of almost two million euros to unravel this 'web…
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Linguistic Anthropology in Europe: Past, Present, and Futures
Conference
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We invite you to participate in the Day of Languages and Cultures 2026!
Organisation
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Carole TiberiusFaculty of Humanities
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SAILS Workshop: AI and LLMs: Keeping the Linguist in the Loop
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Camil Staps receives Rubicon grant: What does ‘that’ mean?
PhD student Camil Staps is continuing his academic career in Berlin. He receives a Rubicon grant to do research there on demonstrative pronouns.
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Summer filled with conferences in Leiden
It will be a summer filled with conferences at the Faculty of Humanities in Leiden. In the coming months, there will be something for everyone at the university, especially in the field of languages and cultures of Africa and the Middle East.
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Peter BisschopFaculty of Humanities
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New professor Suzan Verberne aims to bring large language models and search engines closer together
Suzan Verberne has been appointed professor of Natural Language Processing at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS) from 1 October. Verberne has been at LIACS since 2017 as group leader of the Text Mining and Retrieval group.
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4 KIEM grants for Humanities
Four projects led by the Faculty of Humanities have been awarded KIEM grants. The researchers will receive €10,000 to carry out their plans.
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Student Aline-Priscillia: ‘I am an odd academic, I’m not very attached to outcomes’
In the new video series 'The World of Linguistics', alumni and academics talk about their passion for their field. Student Aline-Priscillia is particularly curious about how language is processed in the brain.
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Florian Schneider
Faculty of Humanities
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A dead language comes to life: Early medieval Old English in the 21st century
From films, video games and historical novels to Nordic folk bands, Old English from the early Middle Ages is experiencing a revival in the 21st century. Together with international colleagues, university lecturer Thijs Porck (LUCAS) made a book about the 'resurrection' of this dead language.
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Arend QuakFaculty of Humanities
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Tingting ZhengFaculty of Humanities
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Willem van RooijenFaculty of Humanities
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Alexander PleijterFaculty of Humanities
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Astrid van AlemFaculty of Humanities
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Sjef Barbiers new Managing Director of INT
Professor Sjef Barbiers will be appointed Managing Director of the Institute for the Dutch Language (INT) with effect from 1 September 2025. He will step down as scientific director of LUCL as of that date.
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Johan Rooryck receives honorary doctorate from Tromsø University
Professor Johan Rooryck, currently executive director of cOAlition S, will receive an honorary doctorate from the University of Tromsø for his commitment to open access in science. He will be awarded the honorary doctorate on 1 September.