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Michaël Peyrot appointed professor: 'We have a bright future ahead of us' 11 September 2023Michaël Peyrot has been appointed professor of Comparative Indo-European Linguistics at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics with retroactive ...
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How seals point to an undocumented prehistoric language 03 July 2023Language can be a time machine: we can learn from ancient texts how our ancestors interacted with the world around them. But can language also teach u...
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What influence did French really have on Dutch? 15 May 2023Just as some people today dislike English influences on the Dutch language, in early modern times people also criticised the Frenchification of Dutch....
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Who spoke what language in north-western sixth-century China? 14 March 2023
Fifteen hundred years ago, the north-west of what we now call China was a jumble of peoples. How did those Indians, Khotanese and Tocharians influence...
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ERC Consolidator Grants for six Leiden researchers 31 January 2023From the effects of hormone fluctuations in women via the interior structure of giant planets to the prehistory of the languages and more: six Leiden ...
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Lucien van Beek receives LUF grant: 'It is a great feeling to be able to work out my ideas' 20 January 2023University lecturer Lucien van Beek has been awarded a LUF Praesidium Libertatis Grant. He will use the sum of 75,000 euros to research the thinking o...
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Maarten Mous: ‘Your language is part of the world’ 20 June 2022In the new video series 'The World of Linguistics', alumni and researchers talk about their passion for their field. Professor of African Linguistics ...
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Benjamin Suchard: ‘The more you send out into the world, the more likely it will stick’ 25 April 2022How do you make niche subjects interesting and accessible? Benjamin Suchard, historical linguist and researcher, seems to have created the perfect rec...
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Opposing the French participle clause 10 February 2022The Dutch phrase ‘ijs en weder dienende’ (literally, ‘ice and weather serving’) is a good example of what is known as a participle clause and is perha...
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Genetics proves it: Indo-European did not come to Europe on horseback 20 October 2021Horses were first domesticated in South-West Russia, is the conclusion drawn by an international team of researchers writing in the well-respected jou...
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What does it actually say? Linguist launches video series on wall poems 16 July 2021The city centre of Leiden is covered in them: wall poems. When roaming around, you come across poetry written in the Latin alphabet, but also in scrip...
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Professor Jos Schaeken: 'I had no idea where Leiden was, but I did know I wanted to study there.' 13 July 2021In the Pioneers of Leiden University series we talk to past and present students who were the first in their families to go to university. In this thi...
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Islands show human influence on nature 30 April 2021What is the impact of humans on nature? In Science an article appeared in which researchers try to give an answer to that question. Biogeographer and ...
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A whole new (computational) world 08 June 2020Historical linguist Lauren Fonteyn is awarded a substantial Digital Infrastructure grant as well as being selected as member of the prestigious Young ...
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A unique perspective on (pre)historical migration using linguistics 16 December 2019Migration is not only reflected in DNA, but also in language. By tracing changes in language, we learn more about the lifestyle of the people that spe...