2,074 search results for “dutch linguistics” in the Public website
-
14 Veni grants awarded to Leiden researchers
Fourteen promising researchers from Leiden University have been given the opportunity to realise their research plans for the coming years thanks to a Veni grant from the NWO. This year, these subsidies have been granted to studies of the influence of noise on the great tit, the conditions necessary…
- Friday Afternoon Lecture
-
Code-switching Reading Group
Debate
-
Tone Change in Cantonese
Lecture
-
On head movement and the verbal identity condition in ellipsis
Lecture
- Workshop on Word Stress and Accent
- American Indian Workshop 2014
-
Writing Aesopica
Lecture
-
Lectures on Mapudungun, the language of the original inhabitants of Chile, the Mapuche people
Lecture
-
Numerals: A Small Workshop
Lecture, Workshop
-
What is in the Alorese lexicon
Lecture
-
Multilingualism as normalcy: exploring the gamut of language use
Lecture, Sociolinguistics Series
-
The history of word-initial geminates in Kelantan Malay
Lecture
-
New perspectives on the Arabic language of the early Islamic period
Lecture
-
Is the future of Portuguese predictable?
Lecture
-
Understanding dialogue: Language use and social interaction
Lecture, LACG Meetings
-
Mini-Workshop on African language texts and digital humanities
Conference, Workshop by Descriptive and Anthropological Linguistics Discussion Group
-
LUCL Colloquium: Exploring the Potential Ecological Adaptations of Languages
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium - Fall 2015
-
VVIK Lecture; The How and Why of Sanskrit Poetry and My Sanskrit Poetic Contributions
Lecture
-
CADS Research Seminar | Ecological Perspectives on Indian Multilingualism
Lecture
-
Language and Belonging: Policy, ideology, and minority youth in India, Québec and The Netherlands
Lecture
-
HiSoN conference "Making Waves in Historical Sociolinguistics"
Conference
-
LUCL Colloquium: English in Paradise?
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium - Spring 2016
-
Gavruni modal verbs, impersonal constructions and locative prepositions
Lecture
-
Who is your name?
Lecture
-
Multilingualism in the usage-based era
Lecture
-
‘Give’ constructions in Austronesian and Papuan languages of eastern Indonesia: a case of structural convergence
Lecture
-
Observing the course of discourse-pragmatic change in synchronic data: 'innit' in Multicultural London English
Lecture, Sociolinguistcs Series
-
What can synchronic data tell us about the past?: Contact-induced change in Eastern Indonesia
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium - Spring 2017
-
Clefts in Tunen: A biclausal account
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
-
Ineke Sluiter receives Academy Professor Prize
Ineke Sluiter, Professor of Greek Language and Literature, has been awarded the Academy Professor Prize by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). According to the jury, Sluiter is exceptional in her ability to connect issues from antiquity with the broad themes of the present day…
-
ERC Consolidator Grant for Petra Sijpesteijn
Arabist and papyrologist Petra Sijpesteijn has received a Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council for her research on the early Islamic Empire. The five-year ERC grant will fund the research project
-
Latin American representatives visit Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Each year, Latin American diplomats meet the researchers and students from Leiden University who specialise in their region. This year, they visited the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences. ‘The social and behavioural sciences have improved our understanding of social unrest.’
-
The wide spectrum of research at Leiden
To give a better idea of the research at Leiden University, a new website has been launched that lists the University’s institutes together with the disciplines that they cover. But the institutes also work together intensively.
-
New language museum for Leiden
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 come together for a broad public. It won't be in a building, but at different places in the city. Dynamic, contemporary, flexible and affordable. The details…
-
Student orchestra: ‘I love a bit of power’
The Dutch Student Orchestra is performing at Stadsgehoorzaal, Leiden’s concert hall, on 11 February. Several Leiden students have sacrificed many a free hour to the rehearsals. Days before the big performance we present them with three dilemmas.
-
From the Sharia to Turkish soap operas
Knowledge of Islam and of Muslim societies is indispensable when trying to properly understand the globalising world, as well as changing Dutch society. Researchers from Leiden are therefore immersing themselves in the languages, culture and religion of Muslim societies. Their work and insights can…
-
Human Frontier Science Program award for Katharina Riebel
An international research team consisting of Katharina Riebel as leading PI and two international collaborators were awarded a Human Frontier Science Program grant for their proposal ‘Seeing voices’: the role of multimodal cues in vocal learning.
-
New Perspectives on Chinese Writing
New Perspectives on Chinese Writing features new research by international experts on a script representing both unequaled continuity and impressive adaptability. During the symposium, treasures from the Chinese Special Collections of the Asian Library will be presented in dedicated exhibitions.
-
What Spinoza winners Ellemers, Sluiter and Franx will do with €2.5 million
On Monday 27 September 2010 Spinoza prize winners Naomi Ellemers, Ineke Sluiter, Marijn Franx (Leiden) and Piet Gros (Utrecht) announced their plans for their €2.5 million prize money. This was during the official ceremony in The Hague, at which the outgoing Secretary of State for Education, Culture…
-
In search of the frontier between sound and language
Comparison between babies and song-birds when they are learning a non-existent language—a study of this kind has never been tried before. But this is what Claartje Levelt, Carel ten Cate (Leiden University) and Jelle Zuidema (University of Amsterdam) are attempting.
-
‘Too many or too few memories can be problematic’
The Public Day of the Leiden Institute of Brain and Cognition (LIBC) has grown in recent years into one of the most popular popular-science events in Leiden. Tickets are selling fast for the upcoming edition on Friday 11 October in Stadsgehoorzaal in Leiden. Professor Bernet Elzinga tells us more.
-
These are the seven Veni winners of the Faculty of Science
The Faculty of Science has received no less than seven Veni grants this year. Camila Correa, Max van Duijn, Stéphanie van der Pas, Sergii Pud, Mónica Varela Álvarez, Joseph Callingham, and Melissa McClure will receive a maximum of 250,000 euros to further develop their own research ideas over a three-year…
-
Global Exploration Grant awarded to Dr. Alexander Geurds for field research in Nicaragua
The proposed investigation focuses on the Pre-Hispanic archaeological site Aguas Buenas recently documented by Dr. Alexander Geurds
-
Students meet each other from a distance
For a lot of students, the covid crisis means that a sense of community is hard to find during their studies. Lettie Dorst, university lecturer of translation studies and English linguistics, explains how she tries to create a 'community of learners’.
-
Victor Gijsbers wins the 2017 Faculty Education Award
Philosophy lecturer Victor Gijsbers has been awarded the 2017 Faculty Education Award. The Faculty Education Award is given each year to the Faculty’s most inspiring lecturer. After attending one of Gijsbers’s lectures, the jury said it was impressed by his energy and dry humour.
-
Emoticons in Ancient Egypt
The advent of script has never managed to eliminate the use of symbols. This is the finding of research carried out by Kyra van der Moezel on Ancient Egyptian identity marks. PhD defence 7 September.
-
Area Studies Week from 2-5 June: Join our live Q&As!
Interested in Area Studies? Then Leiden is the place to be! Join our Online Area Studies Week from 2-5 June to find out more. From Africa to Brasil and from Korea to Russia, Leiden covers all areas and fields, both in language, literature, history, politics and socio-economics. Join our live Q&As!
-
Children learn early on that scientists are men
When children were asked to draw a scientist, a bald, middle-aged man in a white coat was most often depicted. Why is that? A group of Leiden University science communication researchers discovered that children already get this impression in primary school. Published in PLOS ONE on 16 November.
-
Open Day: 'What's the right degree programme for me?'
Leiden's city centre, bathed in autumn sunshine and teeming with visitors. On 14 October, several thousands of students and their parents came to visit the University's Open Day. We spoke to a number of students at the information fair in the Pieterskerk; each of them had their own questions, doubts…