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Roberta D'Alessandro appointed member of Global Young Academy 22 January 2014
Professor Roberta D'Alessandro, from the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics, has been appointed a member of the Global Young Academy (GYA) from ...
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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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NWO PhDs in the Humanities: PhD position for Bobby Ruijgrok 19 August 2013
LUCL is pleased to announce that Bobby Ruijgrok has been awarded a PhD-position within the NWO PhDs in the Humanities Programme. His project is entitl...
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Two NWO grants for Johan Rooryck 19 August 2013
LUCL is pleased to announce that Professor Johan Rooryck has been awarded both an NWO Horizon Grant for his project entitled 'Knowledge and culture', ...
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Veni grants 2012 19 August 2013
Three researchers at LUCL have been awarded a VENI-grant by NWO.
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Two Vrije Competitie Grants for LUCL researchers 10 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-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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2012 Regional Chairship Lisa Cheng 29 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 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...
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Third oldest Papiamento text discovered 08 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 inscriptions 13 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 Klamer 10 September 2012
Marian Klamer's LAISEANG project has been awarded a research grant by CLARIN.
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Leiden Summer School connects linguists internationally 09 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...