On Thursday 28 April, Simone Mauri (SOAS, University of London) will give a talk on Demonstratives in Ayt Atta Tamazight.

Run, Linguists, run! A group of researchers of the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics ran the Leiden Singelloop on April 15. They even had their...

America will not be choosing the next President until 8 November. Nonetheless, election fever is already running high. University lecturer and politi...

In QS’s World University Rankings of 2016, Leiden University’s History and Linguistics programme rank #19 and #28, respectively. This makes the Histor...

The OHBM Program Committee selected LUCL's Olga Kepinska to receive a Merit Abstract Award for the 2016 OHBM Annual Meeting in Geneva, Switzerland.

On the 11th of February, Qian Li succesfully defended her PhD-thesis. LUCL congratulates Qian on this fantastic result.

At the Taalgala the award for best popular scientific publication was awarded to linguist Ronny Boogaart for his book 'Een sprinter is een stoptrein z...

The European Research Council has awarded five Leiden researchers an ERC Consolidator Grant. These subsidies of up to a maximum of two million euros w...

Japanese was not always the language spoken in Japan. Researchers link the arrival of the language in Japan with the migration of farmers around 400 B...

Dutch universities involved in lingusitics research and teaching have been asked through the VSNU to provide financial guarantees for the transition o...

LUCL member prof. dr. Holger Gzella has been elected as member of the Academia Europaea (The Academy of Europe).

One of our LUCIS members, Karène Sanchez, has been granted the Internationalisation in the Humanities grant for her project 'Engaging Europe in the Ar...

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...

Flemish prime minister Geert Bourgeois and Rector Magnificus Carel Stolker attended the opening of the 19th Colloquium Neerlandicum at the Academiegeb...

The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research has awarded dr. Lucien van Beek a Veni grant. This grant offers young researchers the possibilit...