35 search results for “negation” in the Public website
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Ton van der Wouden
Faculty of Humanities
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Operators in the lexicon. On the negative logic of natural language
Operators in the Lexicon opens with an old chestnut: why are there no natural single word lexicalizations for negations of the propositional operator and and the predicate calculus operator all: why neither *nand nor *nall?
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Negation in the work of De Ruyter and Hooft: Negation in 17th century Dutch intra-speaker variation
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Explaining infinitival negation in a new contact language
Lecture, Sociolinguistics Series
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A grammar of Kumzari : a mixed Perso-Arabian language of Oman
This book presents an in-depth grammatical description of Kumzari, a mixed language spoken in remote villages on the Musandam Peninsula in northern Oman.
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Form and Function in Greek Grammar. Linguistic Contributions to the Study of Greek Literature
Form and Function in Greek Grammar. Linguistic Contributions to the Study of Greek Literature is a new book, written by Albert Rijksbaron. Rijksbaron is internationally known as one of the leading scholars of the Ancient Greek language, whose work has exerted a strong and lasting influence on the scholarly…
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The style of speeches
What is the difference between a minister saying that something is possible or that it is not impossible ?
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Unknown 18th-century Dutch: language variation in private letters
How did common people write in the late eighteenth century? Little is yet known on this topic, since our knowledge is mainly based on printed texts written by a small part of the (male) elite population. This dissertation – written from a sociolinguistic point of view – gives us new insights into late-…
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Political discourses and the securitization of democracy in post-1991 Ethiopia
This thesis attempts to interrogate post-1991-2015 political development in Ethiopia, focusing on the political discourses espoused by the government and opposition, using the discourse analysis method and securitization theory.
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(Extra)Ordinary letters: A view from below on seventeenth-century Dutch
In this dissertation, a corpus of 595 seventeenth-century letters (mainly private ones) written between 1664 and 1672 is examined from a sociolinguistic perspective.
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Eighteenth-Century Cholón
The main purpose of this book is to give a description of the Cholón language as represented in the Arte de la lengua cholona (ALC), a colonial grammar written in 1748 by a Franciscan friar, named Pedro de la Mata. The ALC was transcribed by Fray Gerónimo Clota in 1772. This grammar is kept in the British…
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Invisible Landscapes: Colonialism and history in Montecristi
Archaeologist Eduardo Herrera Malatesta reflects on the unfamiliarity with the pre-Columbian past that he encountered during fieldwork in the Montecristi province in the Dominican Republic.
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PhD student pesticide impacts on biodiversity (0.8-1.0 fte)
Science, Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML)
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What can synchronic data tell us about the past?: Contact-induced change in Eastern Indonesia
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium - Spring 2017
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Negative concord in Turkish polar questions
Lecture
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Reconciling conflicting interests
A far-reaching understanding of human behaviour is necessary to get to grips with conflicts in society and to encourage parties to meet each other halfway. Psychologists, anthropologists and political scientists from Leiden are making invaluable contributions to that understanding. You can find out…
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PPI-disjunctions in Russian
Lecture
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Sugarcoating the search for a new vaccine
A vaccine based on sugar coats does have the potential to combat a multi-resistant staphylococcus. That is what Jeroen Codée and his colleagues from Utrecht state in Nature. In doing so, they are contradicting the earlier conclusions of German colleagues.
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New courses Buddhist Studies by dr. Helmut Tauscher
In the Spring semester of 2017, two courses will be offered by the Numata Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies, Dr. Helmut Tauscher. One is oriented at the BA level (starting February 23), the other at the MA level (starting February 20).
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Letters as loot
Linguistic research on a unique collection of Dutch letters allowed us to gain access to the every-day language of people from various walks of life. Private letters by men, women and even children have been elaborately explored in the Letters as Loot researchprogramme, initiated and directed by prof.…
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The subject/object asymmetry and the origin of Romance clitics
Lecture
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Gravensteen Lecture | Spaces of Enslavement: Rethinking the Architecture of the Castle/Dungeon
Lecture
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The syntax-prosody mapping in a dead language, the case of Late Latin BE-periphrases
Lecture
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Some issues involved in making a Hamar lexicon
Lecture
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41st Symposium on Old English, Middle English and Historical Linguistics in the Low Countries (#SOEMEHL41)
Symposium
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41st Symposium on Old English, Middle English and Historical Linguistics in the Low Countries (#SOEMEHL41)
Symposium
- Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Political Discourses and the Securitization of Democracy in Post-1991 Ethiopia
PhD Defence
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Predicting Russian Aspect: A corpus study and an experiment
Lecture
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Observing the course of discourse-pragmatic change in synchronic data: 'innit' in Multicultural London English
Lecture, Sociolinguistcs Series
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Involving the audience. Textual strategies in Livy’s account of the battle of Cannae
Lecture
- Volume 16 (2021)
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The paradox of the Arbëresh future construction and the history of Albanian dialects
Lecture
- Six public graduation presentations