1,668 search results for “linguistics” in the Public website
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Linguistics (MA)
The one-year master’s in Linguistics is concerned with the knowledge, structure and use of language, studied from a wide range of perspectives. It trains students to systematically identify, describe and analyse language phenomena and to apply this knowledge to a specific area of interest.
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Applied Linguistics
The goal of the field of Applied Linguistics is to apply the findings and the techniques from research in linguistics to solve practical language-related problems in society.
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Theoretical Linguistics
Theoretical linguistics seeks to understand the underlying principles of the nature of human language.
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Linguistics network
LIAS researchers working in the field of linguistics hold dual appointments in LIAS and the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL).
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Descriptive Linguistics
Documenting and describing languages of the world.
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Linguistics (BA)
There is not a day without language: we use it to read, to write, to communicate. But do you ever wonder how you learned to speak your own language when you were a child? And how, as an adult, do you learn new languages? Linguistics has the answer to those questions. In the BA Linguistics at Leiden…
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Applied Linguistics
Applying linguistics research to solve practical language-related problems in society.
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Theoretical Linguistics
Studying the underlying principles of the nature of language.
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Experimental Linguistics
How do we process language and speech? How do we integrate information at different levels – intonation, sentence structure, meaning, tone, words, sounds - and how does information at one level interact with information at another level?
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“Leiden linguists play a key role in linguistics”
From 2 to 5 September 2015, Leiden served as the stage for one of the world’s largest linguistics conferences: the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE) 2015 Annual Meeting. Marianne Mithun, a professor at University of California, Santa Barbara and outgoing president of the SLE, is not surprised that…
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Linguistics (specialisation) (MA)
The Linguistics specialisation is a one-year programme within the master's degree in Linguistics at Leiden University. In the course of the programme you will be able to focus on a specific thematic or disciplinary route, reflecting the linguistics expertise present at Leiden University.
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Chinese Language and Linguistics
Chinese Linguistics at Leiden University offers you an excellent opportunity to concentrate on the different aspects of the languages of China, especially their sounds and syntax.
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Descriptive and Comparative Linguistics
The research programme Descriptive and Comparative Linguistics brings together LUCL researchers who focus mainly on descriptive and comparative linguistics.
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Dutch Linguistics (MA)
The master’s programme in Dutch linguistics at Leiden University provides you with a deep understanding of the Dutch language and the multifaceted research into the structure and use of the Dutch language. During the programme you will not only gain in-depth knowledge of Dutch linguistics, but also…
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German Language and Linguistics
German Language and Linguistics at Leiden University offers in-depth knowledge of German linguistic theory and practice.
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English Language and Linguistics
English Language and Linguistics at Leiden University focuses on English language usage and linguistics around the world, including in countries where English is spoken as a second language or as part of a mixed language.
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French Language and Linguistics
French Language and Linguistics at Leiden University offers a wide array of courses covering theoretical and applied linguistics, including language acquisition, syntax, and semantics.
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Italian Language and Linguistics
Italian Language and Linguistics at Leiden University draws on diachronic and synchronic perspectives to bring you an advanced qualification in Italian linguistics.
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Assistant Professor French Linguistics
Humanities, Centre for Linguistics
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Linguistics (research) (MA)
The research master’s programme in Linguistics at Leiden University combines leading expertise with a flexible programme format.
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Online Experience Linguistics
Study Information, Online Experience
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Historical Linguistics and Philology
Reconstructing language history of individual languages (English, Italian, Russian) or language branches (Germanic, Slavic) by studying ancient written sources.
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Heritage Linguistics Lab
Platform for research about heritage languages spoken in the Netherlands
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Historical and Comparative Linguistics
Reconstructing language history through the study of language change.
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Experimental Linguistics Lab Facilities
Psycholinguistic research
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Comparative Indo-European Linguistics
Almost all languages of Europe and of a large part of western Asia belong to a single language family, which is called Indo-European, and which includes modern languages like English, Dutch, Russian, Farsi, but also ancient ones like Ancient Greek, Latin, Hittite and Sanskrit.
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Formal Theoretical and Experimental Linguistics
The research programme Formal Theoretical and Experimental Linguistics brings together LUCL researchers who focus mainly on formal theoretical and experimental linguistics.
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Forensic linguistics and speech evidence
Investigating specific language and speech behaviour of people.
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Comparative Indo-European Linguistics
Reconstructing language history and prehistory in the context of the Indo-European language family.
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Assistant Professor English Sociohistorical Linguistics
Humanities, Centre for Linguistics
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Leiden University Centre for Linguistics
There are over 7,000 languages in the world and over half of the world’s population is bilingual. But how do all these people use their language? And how do these languages differ from one another? Under the slogan of ‘Interconnecting linguistic diversity,’ the researchers from the Leiden University…
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Theoretical Approaches to Linguistic Diversity
Describing a new language for the first time is an exciting and challenging intellectual experience.
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Contributions to Chibchan Historical Linguistics
On December 5th, Matthias Pache succesfully defended his doctoral thesis and graduated. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Matthias on this great result.
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Latino-Punic and its Linguistic Environment
This thesis attempts to describe the entire corpus of Latino-Punic inscriptions, found in Tripolitania.
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The linguistic realization of populist rhetorical strategies: a linguistic-stylistic approach
Lecture, Sociolinguistics series
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Theory and practice of linguistic stylistics
The linguistic project constitutes the connection between the two other subprojects. It consists of two parts.
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Summer School in Languages and Linguistics
The Leiden Summer School in Languages and Linguistics offers a varied program of specialised courses in Descriptive linguistics, in Chinese, Germanic, Indo-European, Indian, Iranian, Semitic languages and linguistics, as well as a number of introductory linguistic courses.
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Detecting cross-linguistic syntactic differences automatically
So far it has been impossible to compare large sets of syntactic constructions in large sets of languages systematically and automatically. The online availability of parallel text corpora and software tools to align, enrich, search and analyse them has the potential to make automatic massive systematic…
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Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL)
Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL) is one of seven institutes housed within the Faculty of Humanities.
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Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics 2022
Conference
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Language Use, Usage Guides and Linguistic Norms
Language Use, Usage Guides and Linguistic Norms will be of interest to scholars of language use in both the past and the present, as well as to anyone interested in the interplay between actual language use and prescriptive attitudes towards language.
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A History of Alorese (Austronesian): Combining linguistics and oral history
On the 16th of February, Yunus Sulistyono successfully defended a doctoral thesis. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Yunus on this achievement!
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Unravelling East Africa’s Early Linguistic History (LHEAf)
This project investigates the rich linguistic history of the crucial language groups in East Africa and includes a search for words that indicate earlier lost languages. These outcomes, combined with recent archaeological and genetic research, will contribute to a new understanding of East Africa’s…
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Linguistic and Cultural Foreign Policies of European States
The policies relating to language pursued by European monarchies and states have been widely studied, but far less attention has been given to their linguistic and cultural policies in territories outside their own borders.
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Bridging the unbridgeable: linguists, prescriptivists and the general public
This project seeks to close the gap between the three main players in the field of prescriptivism: the linguists themselves, the prescriptivists (as writers of usage guides) and those who depend upon such manuals.
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A history of Alorese (Austronesian) combining linguistic and oral history
On the 16th of February 2022 Mr. Yunus Sulistyono successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.
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Tracking the Tocharians from Europe to China: a linguistic reconstruction
This project intends to provide an integrated linguistic assessment of the hypothesised migration route of the Tocharians.
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The linguistic past of Mesoamerica and the Andes: a search for early migratory relations between North and South America
The aim of the project is to unravel the genetic and contact relations between the indigenous languages of Mesoamerica (Mexico and western Central America) and the Middle Andes region (Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia), as part of a larger endeavor to understand the historical process of the peopling of the Americas…
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The writing on the rocks: Thamidic and Arabia's linguistic past
This project aims to open up the pre-Islamic linguistic history of Arabia through the systematic study of the Thamudic inscriptions within a digital humanities framework.
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modeling of patterns in language change. Exercises in evolutionary linguistics
This thesis describes the use of the evolutionary approach in the study of language change, aiming to provide a better insight in the mechanisms that play a role in language change and to validate this approach in the field of language change.