1,230 search results for “austronesian language and linguistics” in the Staff website
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Marianne van Dijken
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Petra de BruijnFaculty of Humanities
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Göran SundholmFaculty of Humanities
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Bert van den BergFaculty of Humanities
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Thomas KluitenburgFaculty of Humanities
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The BIAS project attends the summer school on ‘Law and Language’ at Pavia University
Carlotta Rigotti, Postdoc researcher at eLaw, and Eduard Fosch-Villaronga, Associate Professor at eLaw, delivered a lecture on AI and non-discrimination, engaging students with the Debiaser demo.
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The language of internet memes
Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series
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Jeroen WiedenhofFaculty of Humanities
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Casper WitsFaculty of Humanities
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Amaranth FeuthFaculty of Humanities
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How infants learn about language within their social context - experimental and observational evidence
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium
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‘A last-minute challenge became my biggest breakthrough’
Data Science & AI student Nataliia Bagan combines a passion for mathematics, language, and artificial intelligence. Her exceptional bachelor’s thesis on improving reasoning in large language models earned her a nomination for the Leiden Science Young Talent Award 2025.
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10 years of Georgian at Leiden University: Ramaz Kurdadze returns
This year marks a special occasion because it was just ten years ago that the Georgian language was taught for the first time at Leiden University. It is even more exciting that its first professor, Ramaz Kurdadze, will return to Leiden this year to teach students interested in the language. Kurdadze…
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this is how you create a dictionary for an unknown Middle Eastern language
Leiden scholars succeeded in making Arabic accessible to Western academic communities as early as the sixteenth century. But how did they approach this problem?
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Student poster presentations: Linguistic Fieldwork B
Exhibition, poster session
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Language that comforts: The power of communication in healthcare
For people who are seriously ill, an empathetic doctor can make a world of difference. Psychologist Janine Westendorp examined helpful and harmful communication in the consulting room. ‘It’s very important to stress that you are always there supporting the person, even if there’s no cure.’
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Colloquium for diversity in Linguistic Research
Lecture, colloquium
- European Days of Languages
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Ainu Language Presentation
Workshop & exhibition
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Jorge Duran SolorzanoFaculty of Humanities
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Hans ThuisFaculty of Humanities
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David ShakouriFaculty of Humanities
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Roos Bakker
Faculty of Humanities
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Doing Ethics: Addressing Real-World Challenges in Language Research
Conference, workshop
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Krista A. MilneFaculty of Humanities
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Willem AdelaarFaculty of Humanities
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Anik NandiFaculty of Humanities
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Andrew WigmanFaculty of Humanities
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Marinus van IJzendoorn
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Casper de JongeFaculty of Humanities
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Tazuko van BerkelFaculty of Humanities
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Anna van Ark is doing an internship at the Rijksmuseum: ‘I’ve always wanted to be a curator’
Master’s student Anna van Ark has landed her dream internship at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. For three months, she’ll be shadowing the curator and conducting research on Japanese prints for the acquisitions team.
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Fourteen Leiden University researchers receive Vidi grant
The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded Vidi grants to 14 Leiden researchers. This grant of a maximum of 850,000 euros will enable them to start a new research group and develop their own line of research over the next five years.
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Jin WangFaculty of Humanities
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Niels SchillerFaculty of Humanities
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Federico DragoniFaculty of Humanities
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Chams BernardFaculty of Humanities
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SAILS researcher Anne Meuwese awarded PDI-SSH grant
The PDI-SSH grant will be used by Meuwese to create a web portal and collection of tools and resources, named ‘WetSuite’, that will help researchers apply Natural Language Processing (NLP) methods to legal textual data from public bodies.
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Annachiara RaiaFaculty of Humanities
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ERC grant for Jan Vonk: 'Mathematics is the most powerful language to describe our universe'
On 22 November, Leiden scientist Jan Vonk received an ERC starting grant for his research on the building blocks of mathematics. This grant is not his first this year: in fact, this July Vonk also received a Vidi from NWO. Four questions to the scientist who got two grants this year.
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Teaming up with Portugal: as a doctor, how do you talk to a patient?
As a doctor, coming to a decision together with a patient: how do you do that in the best possible way? Researchers Geert Warnar and Roosmaryn Pilgram, who jointly teach a course within the MA in Dutch Studies, are entering into a virtual collaboration with the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa to find the…
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COIn grants awarded to improve research infrastructure
Several FGW projects have received a COIn grant. This grant, ranging from 5,000 to 30,000 euros, is intended to improve research infrastructure, for example by purchasing software licences, applications, electronics or laboratory equipment.
- A Tale in Two Tongues
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Negation in Dutch Sign Language
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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SUP for Sustainability: students clean up the Leiden canals
Some thirty Leiden students balanced on SUP boards for the Supping for Sustainability Lustrum activity. Together with alumnus Merijn Tinga, better known as the Plastic Soup Surfer, they paddled their boards through the Leiden canals and waterways, fishing plastic waste out of the water.
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Nadine Akkerman: ‘It’s an incredible feeling, rewriting such an iconic event from a country’s history.’
Ever since Nadine Akkerman, Professor of Early Modern Literature & Culture, came across a woman spy in her research, secret agents have kept cropping up in her work. Now there’s Spycraft, a popular history book exploring the espionage techniques used by early modern spies, which she has co-written with…
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Uncorking Language
Debate, LUCL Fireside Chat
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Lucien van Beek receives LUF grant: 'It is a great feeling to be able to work on my ideas'
University lecturer Lucien van Beek has been awarded a LUF Praesidium Libertatis Grant. He will use the sum of 75,000 euros to research the thinking of people in ancient and prehistoric times. To do that, he will look for unusual or striking metaphors in the earliest Indo-European languages.