231 search results for “semantics” in the Public website
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Understanding the brain via language
Professor Jenny Doetjes at Leiden University researches similarities and differences in languages, specifically in the area of numerals and quantifiers. Her research provides insight into language patterns, bu also in the working of the human brain. Inaugural lecture on 26 January.
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‘Brain scanners are bringing about a revolution in neurolinguistics’
Brain scanners have radically changed neurolinguistics. They are increasing our understanding of how the brain processes language. Professor Niels Schiller has produced a standard work on this.
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These are the seven Veni laureates of Humanities
No less than seven scholars of the Faculty of Humanities were awarded a Veni grant. Veni grants are aimed at excellent researcher who recently obtained their doctorate. With a maximum grant of 250.000 euros, the laureates can develop their research ideas in the coming three years.
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Yusen Yu wins MEM Graduate Student Prize
Yusen Yu wins the prestigious Graduate Student Prize of the Middle East Medievalists (MEM) with his article
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Postponed! - Lunchtime speaker series (7)
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Understanding and producing morphologically complex words: theoretical perspectives, controversial issues and experimental evidence
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium - Spring 2018
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Leiden Theoretical Philosophy with Martin Stokhof: The transcendental skeleton in a human context
Lecture
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Requiem for a Theme
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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LUCDH: Small Grants Symposium
Conference
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Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Licensing at the interfaces - question-sensitive discourse particles and negative polarity items in sentence comprehension
Lecture, LACG Meetings
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Florence Nightingale Colloquium presents Cees Snoek
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Let's think the unthinkable: what our brains’ responses to impossible verbs can tell us about linguistic representation
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Workshop: Grammar and processing of ellipsis
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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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How do Mandarin speaking children build bridges: a syntax-discourse interface study
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Possession: diversity within and across languages
Conference
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Symposium on Ancient Greek Linguistics
Conference
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Discussion: non-obligatory number marking
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Leiden Theoretical Philosophy Colloquium with Joke Spruyt, 'What if...? Thirteenth-century conceptions of (logical) necessity'
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MacBERTh & GysBERT meet socio-linguistics: using machine learning to automate annotation and analysis in historical corpora
Lecture, Sociolinguistics series
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Two Vrije Competitie Grants for LUCL researchers
LUCL is pleased to announce that two Vrije Competitie Grants have been awarded to LUCL researchers. Prof.dr. Lisa Cheng and dr. Jenny Doetjes have been awarded a grant for their project 'Understanding questions'. Prof.dr. Michael Kemper (UvA) and prof.dr. Jos Schaeken have been awarded a grant for the…
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‘Studying English gave me a fertile humus layer of world literature’
Author Gustaaf Peek, who has been nominated for the Libris Literature Award, studied English Language and Literature in Leiden. ‘I completely submersed myself in literature during my studies, and the effects are still with me today.'
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Language and belonging in the 21st century
What does it take to truly be ‘one of us’ and what role does language play in this process? In short, what is the difference between ‘a language we understand’ and ‘our language’? This is the question Professor Terkourafi will address in her inaugural lecture on Friday 20 April.
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Publications
This is a list of scientific publications by students and staff of the Media Technology MSc programme.
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Working Paper Series
The Grotius Centre Working Paper Series is an occasional series through which researchers in the Grotius Centre can publish the unedited versions of manuscripts that have been accepted for publication by journals and books.
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on Zoom
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Contrast and Verb Phrase Ellipsis: Triviality, Symmetry, and Competition
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Individuation and Countability of Event Nominals
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Modifier words in Kalamang: verbs or adjectives?
Lecture
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CANCELLED | Inclusive Research on Language and History in East Africa
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium Series
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Dutch primary compounding: Towards a new inventory
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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CANCELLED | Some questions about questions: a pragmatic stance
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Syntax-Information-Structure Interaction: Data and analysis
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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‘On the Dutch temporal adverbial goed en wel’
Debate, Construction Grammar Discussion Group
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Nightingale Colloquium presents Spinoza Prize laureate Piek Vossen
Lecture
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The interpretation of syntactic focus variation
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Symposium in honour of Göran Sundholm
Conference
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Opening Academic Year Institute for Philosophy 2018 - 2019
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Old Armenian Nasal Verbs: Archaisms and Innovations
PhD defence
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Perceptual and attentional meanings in the demonstratives of Ticuna
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First Leiden Linguistic Diversity Colloquium (LLDC 1)
Conference
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Simulating code-switched sentence production using artificial neural networks
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Gothic Passive: the old, the odd and the data
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Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology Chapter Meeting
Conference
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Going Romance
Conference
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Doing Gender in The Netherlands: TRANS* approaches, methods & concepts
The Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies (NOG) hosts the annual National Research Day, held this year at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society. The NOG Research Day is a dedicated platform for sharing the work of junior and senior researchers of Dutch universities in the fields…
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Phonological encoding in L2 speech production
Lecture, LACG Meetings
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The Structure and Development of an Indonesian Youth Language
Lecture