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Leiden University agrees to guarantee open access for linguistics 26 October 2015
Dutch universities involved in lingusitics research and teaching have been asked through the VSNU to provide financial guarantees for the transition o...
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Prof. dr. Holger Gzella elected as member of the Academia Europaea 30 September 2015
LUCL member prof. dr. Holger Gzella has been elected as member of the Academia Europaea (The Academy of Europe).
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NWO grant awarded to Karène Sanchez 16 September 2015
One of our LUCIS members, Karène Sanchez, has been granted the Internationalisation in the Humanities grant for her project 'Engaging Europe in the Ar...
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Leiden hosts prestigious linguistics conference 11 September 2015
For a brief period Leiden University was the hub of the world of linguistics. The 48th annual conference of the Societas Linguistica Europaea was held...
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Language loosens tongues 08 May 2015
Language research generates a wealth of information about people: from our history and cultural differences to the way we learn. Leiden University sha...
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Language gets people talking 08 May 2015
Studying languages enables you to unearth a lot of valuable information about humans: it reveals our history and explains cultural differences and it ...
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Learning a language is a staggering task 26 March 2015
To properly understand how babies absorb a language we need to study the process from a number of different perspectives, linguist Claartje Levelt arg...
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Language as a time machine 06 February 2015
About 90 per cent of Austronesian and Papuan languages are under threat of soon becoming extinct. Marian Klamer is the only professor in the world who...
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Get to know Roberta D'Alessandro and discover the architecture of language 09 October 2014
How does language work and how do we learn a language? The more we know about language, the better we can understand how people interpret the world in...
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New language museum for Leiden 15 July 2014
Leiden is to have a new language museum in 2015, a public institute focusing on language in all its facets and where science and social developments c...
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View from abroad: the Michigan effect 16 October 2013
Viktorija Kostadinova, from Macedonia and currently a second-year PhD student at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics, has just returned after...
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Letters confiscated from Dutch ships now online 13 September 2013
More than a thousand 17th- and 18th-century Dutch letters from seized ships are now available online. The letters are a gold mine for researchers want...
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Lingua rises in Google Scholar-ranking 13 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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Award for modern study of Sumerian cuneiform by Bram Jagersma 29 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...