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Two Vrije Competitie Grants for LUCL researchers10 July 2013
LUCL is pleased to announce that two Vrije Competitie Grants have been awarded to LUCL researchers. Prof.dr. Lisa Cheng and dr. Jenny Doetjes have bee...
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Lingua rises in Google Scholar-ranking13 February 2013
A linguistics journal based at Leiden University has risen to the ranks of the top-10 journals in the Humanities.
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What language did the Trojans speak?03 January 2013
The Trojan War plays an important role in Greek mythology. But there is much more to Troy than mythology. The exhibition ‘Troy. City. Homer. Turkey’ c...
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2012 Regional Chairship Lisa Cheng29 November 2012
Prof. dr. Lisa Cheng has been nominated for the Regional Chair at the University of Nantes (France).
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Award for modern study of Sumerian cuneiform by Bram Jagersma29 November 2012
Studying Sumerian grammar in your free time: Bram Jagersma did it. He described centuries-old Sumerian using a modern method he devised himself. For t...
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Third oldest Papiamento text discovered08 November 2012
Leiden University researchers have discovered by chance a note from 1783 in Papiamento. They are working on a linguistic study on confiscated Dutch le...
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Linguists from Leiden decipher Phrygian and Lydian inscriptions13 September 2012
Linguists Alwin Kloekhorst and Alexander Lubotsky from Leiden University made a great discovery this summer. They deciphered a few dozen inscriptions ...
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2012: Grant LAISEANG project Marian Klamer10 September 2012
Marian Klamer's LAISEANG project has been awarded a research grant by CLARIN.
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Leiden Summer School connects linguists internationally09 August 2012
'Every year the courses are different, and there are new things to learn.' The 6th Leiden Summer School in Languages and Linguistics from 18-29 July t...
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2012 Two major NWO subsidies for language research in Leiden12 July 2012
Professor Johan Rooryck will be examining cognition and core knowledge systems and how possession is expressed in different languages. Rooryck and fel...
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2012 Wat is uw impact, meneer Kant?15 May 2012
Prof. dr. Roberta D'Alessandro has written an article on the increasing difficulties that researchers encounter when they apply for a research grant i...
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2012 Publication 'Stemmen op berkenbast'14 May 2012
Jos Schaeken has just published a book entitled 'Stemmen op berkenbast. Berichten uit middeleeuws Rusland: dagelijks leven en communicatie'.
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Leiden delves into the mystery of the brain and language13 April 2012
The Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition (LIBC) is concentrating increasingly on research into the role of the brain in language development. The ...
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2012: Rubicon Peter Jurgec10 April 2012
Peter Jurgec has been awarded a Rubicon grant to do research at LUCL. His project is entitled The unique sounds of Slovenian. His project aims to prov...
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In search of the frontier between sound and language13 March 2012Comparison between babies and song-birds when they are learning a non-existent language—a study of this kind has never been tried before. But this is ...