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Jenny Doetjes appointed Professor of Semantics and Language Variation 03 March 2017
Dr 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 news 02 March 2017
Leiden 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 prize 06 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 restrictions 01 February 2017
The 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 LSA 16 January 2017
Prof. 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 past 10 January 2017
Spirits 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 Beekhuizen 20 December 2016
Barend 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 Linguistics 14 December 2016
International 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 system 08 November 2016
Linguist 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 Trump 07 November 2016
Just 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 & welcome 04 November 2016
Arie 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 best 10 October 2016
The 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 Languages 23 September 2016
A century ago, the French linguist Ferdinand de Saussure proposed that the relationship between the sound of a word and its meaning is fundamentally a...
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Veni Marijn van Putten 19 July 2016
LUCL PhD researcher Marijn van Putten has received a Veni grant by the science funding agency NWO.
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Veni grants for 19 young Leiden researchers 15 July 2016
Nineteen researchers who have recently been awarded their PhD are to receive a Veni grant of up to 250,000 euros. Science funding agency NWO has awar...