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Jurriaan Witteman to receive the Keetje Hodshon Prijs31 March 2017The KHMW (Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen) has decided to grant the Keetje Hodshon Prijs voor Taalwetenschappen to LUCL’s Jurri...
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Janet Grijzenhout appointed as Professor English Linguistics14 March 2017Dr. Janet Grijzenhout (Universität Konstanz) was appointed Professor English Linguistics and will be working at the Leiden University Centre for Lingu...
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Jenny Doetjes appointed Professor of Semantics and Language Variation03 March 2017Dr Jenny Doetjes was appointed Professor of Semantics and Language Variation in February. During her professorship Dr. Doetjes wishes to focus on char...
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Students help Facebook in battle against fake news02 March 2017Leiden master's students of Journalism and New Media are going to help Facebook bar fake news from the social medium.
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Barend Beekhuizen wins the AVT/Anéla dissertation prize06 February 2017
Barend Beekhuizen's dissertation has won the 2016 AVT/Anéla (Dutch Linguistic Association and Society for Applied Linguistics) dissertation prize!
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United States travel restrictions01 February 2017The US travel restrictions are deeply regrettable. Support will be offered to students and staff who are affected.
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Election as Honorary Member of the LSA16 January 2017Prof. Dr. Willem Adelaar has been elected as Honorary member of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA)
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Spirits as medicine for a dark past10 January 2017Spirits play a important role in post-colonial and minority literature as a means of processing black pages from history, according to literary scient...
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Nomination for Barend Beekhuizen20 December 2016Barend Beekhuizen's dissertation has been nominated for the annual AVT/Anéla (Dutch Linguistic Association and Society for Applied Linguistics) disser...
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Launch of the Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics14 December 2016International scholarly publisher Brill has released the most complete and up-to-date reference work on the Chinese language available today. Prof.dr....
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First grammar of Hamar reveals unique language system08 November 2016Linguist Sara Petrollino has written the first detailed grammar of Hamar, a language spoken in south-west Ethiopia that has some unique characteristic...
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Anti-establishment rhetoric helps win election for Trump07 November 2016Just one year ago, nobody would have given Trump a cat's chance in the US presidential elections. Now he will be the next President of the United Stat...
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Arie Verhagen: his farewell & welcome04 November 2016Arie Verhagen said farewell as the chair of Dutch Linguistics and is appointed as the new chair of Language, Culture and Cognition.
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Elsevier: Five Leiden humanities degree programmes rated best10 October 2016The Humanities Faculty bachelor’s degree programmes in History, and Greek and Latin language and culture were rated by students as the best. The maste...
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Evidence for Pervasive Sound Symbolism Across Thousands of Languages23 September 2016A century ago, the French linguist Ferdinand de Saussure proposed that the relationship between the sound of a word and its meaning is fundamentally a...