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The human digital world
AI has huge societal and economic potential and is widely used. But it also brings challenges: how do we combine human values with AI, how do we make AI more transparent and understandable, and what can AI and human cognition learn from each other, for example about language learning?
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Word order and information structure in Makhuwa-Enahara
This dissertation investigates the grammar of Makhuwa-Enahara, a Bantu language spoken in the north of Mozambique. The information structure is an influential factor in this language, determining the word order and the use of special conjugations known as conjoint and disjoint verb forms.
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A Web of Relations: A grammar of rGyalrong Jiăomùzú (Kyom-kyo) dialects
This dissertation is a comprehensive description of the Jiăomùzú dialects. These dialects belong to the Tibetan-Birmese language of the rGyalrong spoken in the province Sìchuā, China.
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The Syntax of Object Marking in Sambaa: A comparative Bantu perspective
This thesis investigates the syntax of object marking in Sambaa and the Bantu languages in general, with particular focus on Swahili and Haya, as points of comparison.
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Pascale EskesFaculty of Humanities
p.c.eskes@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5278525
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Pluractionality in Hausa
This dissertation addresses the semantics of pluractional verbs in Hausa.
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Benjamin StormeFaculty of Humanities
b.p.p.storme@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272175
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Anikó LiptákFaculty of Humanities
a.liptak@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273320
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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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Yes/no question-marking in Italian dialects - A typological, theoretical and experimental approach
This dissertation provides an account of polar questions in Italian dialects from a typological, theoretical and empirical perspective.
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‘Kindersprache, Aphasie und allgemeine Lautgesetze’ revisited
The current project aims to revive the idea that sound inventories are structured according to a small set of universal principles by applying insights from current phonological theory and by making use of modern database technologies and data assessing methodologies.
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Alor-Pantar languages: origins and theoretical impact
This research project focuses on the extended documentation and investigation of these non-Austronesian (‘Papuan’) languages.
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Marian KlamerFaculty of Humanities
m.a.f.klamer@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272783
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Nancy KulaFaculty of Humanities
n.c.kula@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272242
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Michaël PeyrotFaculty of Humanities
m.peyrot@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274177
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Resumptive Prolepsis. A Study in Indirect A'-Dependencies
This dissertation investigates A'-dependencies in Standard German, Zurich German and Dutch where the dislocated constituent is indirectly, i.e. not transformationally, related to the position where it is interpreted. The analysis is carried out within the Principles & Parameters framework.
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The syntax of verbal pseudo-coordination in English and Afrikaans
This dissertation provides a systematic description of English and Afrikaans verbal pseudo-coordination and a formal analysis couched in the Minimalist program.
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A Grammar of Mandarin
A fascinating description of a global language, A Grammar of Mandarin by Jeroen Wiedenhof combines broad perspectives with illuminating depth.
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Greek-Dutch dictionary project
Lexicographical description of Greek; production of Greek-Dutch dictionary
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Multidisciplinary Approaches to Bilingualism in the Hispanic and Lusophone World
This volume offers a multidisciplinary view of cutting-edge research on bilingualism in Spanish and Portuguese-speaking regions, with the aim of building a bridge between sub-fields and approaches that often find themselves isolated from one another.
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Debora Campos WanderleyFaculty of Humanities
d.campos.wanderley@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5278831
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Hilde GunninkFaculty of Humanities
h.gunnink@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274963
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Pickpocket compounds from Latin to Romance
This thesis discusses the development in Proto–Indo–European, Latin and Romance of a word–formation pattern which the most adequate terminology in use dubs ‘verbal government compounds with a governing first member’; I use the shorthand ‘pickpocket compounds’.
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The Americas
At LUCL, researchers aim to understand, describe, and preserve the linguistic diversity of the indigenous Americas.
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Languages of The Hague
Languages of The Hague is a collection of columns on languages and language which were published between 2016 and 2018 in the weekly newspaper Den Haag Centraal.
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Yiya ChenFaculty of Humanities
yiya.chen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271688
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Sophia NautaFaculty of Humanities
s.m.nauta@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276370
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A Semiotactic Approach to Modern Japanese
The aim of this research was to establish if Ebeling's semiotactic theory and method of semiotactic analysis, as described in his works Syntax and Semantics (1978), Een Inleiding tot de Syntaxis (1994) and Semiotaxis, over Theoretische en Nederlandse Syntaxis (2006), could be applied to Modern Japanese…
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Janet GrijzenhoutFaculty of Humanities
j.grijzenhout@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271470
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Going Dutch. The construction of Dutch in policy, practice and discourse (1750-1850)
The project Going Dutch investigates why the link between being or becoming Dutch, and knowledge of Standard Dutch is so often taken for granted in public discourse, by diving into its historical roots.
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Tian YangFaculty of Humanities
t.yang@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275497
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Longming ShichuanFaculty of Humanities
l.shichuan@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272568
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The urban labour market of Roman Italy
This thesis analyses the existence and the functioning of the urban labour market in the early Roman empire by looking at the crucial influence of social structures, such as the family and non-familial labour collectives.
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Universal Semantic Syntax: A Semiotactic Approach
This book offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to a novel theory of syntax, which analyzes grammar from a semantic perspective.
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A history of East Baltic through language contact
On the 6th of July, Anthony Jakob successfully defended a doctoral thesis. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Anthony on this achievement!
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Things hold together: Foundations for a systemic treatment of verbal and nominal tone in Plateau Shimakonde
This is a study of Plateau Shimakonde, a sub-dialect of the Makonde language which is spoken on the Makonde Plateau in northern Mozambique.
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The Phonology of Shaoxing Chinese
This thesis presents a thorough survey of the central aspects of the phonology of Shaoxing Chinese from a synchronic perspective and on the basis of recent theoretical phonological developments, with the secondary goal of casting some light on current issues in Modern Chinese (Mandarin).
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Was macht Hypertext mit Text? Textlinguistische Einsichten in das be- und entgrenzende Wirken von Paratext und Text in Hypertext
This dissertation focuses on the question how text and paratext contribute to the way that text in a network-like environment is clearly bordered and at the same time can easily be linked to other texts.
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Arie VerhagenFaculty of Humanities
a.verhagen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Politiques, Education et Identités Linguistiques, le collège des Frères des écoles chrétiennes de Jérusalem (1922-1939)
This dissertation sheds light on politics, education and linguistic identity by studying the case of the College of Jerusalem, founded by the Brothers of the Christian Schools.
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A Grammar of Awjila Berber (Libya): Based on Umberto Paradisi’s Material
This dissertation provides a grammatical description of the Awjila language, a small Berber language spoken in the Libyan oasis of Awjila.
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The Italian 'Mobile Diphthongs': A Test Case for Experimental Phonetics and Phonological Theory
This thesis investigates durational aspects of the Italian mobile diphthongs with respect to other rising diphthongs and monophthongs and it shows to what extent the monophthong/diphthong alternation still occurs in contemporary Italian.
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Adrien DadoneFaculty of Humanities
a.dadone@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5278849
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Martijn LemmenFaculty of Humanities
m.m.m.a.lemmen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009500
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Michaël OpgenhaffenFaculty of Humanities
m.p.a.opgenhaffen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272969
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Amos van BaalenFaculty of Humanities
a.m.w.van.baalen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Benjamin SuchardFaculty of Humanities
b.d.suchard@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Historical sociolinguistics
When researching languages in historical context, our goal is to understand the nature of linguistic variation in the past, and explain the extent to which the socio-cultural context of bygone times contributed to shaping linguistic variation and change.
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The Non-Verbal Clause in Qumran Hebrew
The present study comprises a classification and analysis of the syntax of the non-verbal clause in Qumran Hebrew, i.e. the linguistic variety (or varieties) found in the so-called Dead Sea Scrolls. The corpus consists of the non-biblical texts written in Hebrew; biblical texts and texts written in…
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John Ash and the Rise of the Children's Grammar
Making extensive use of primary source materials this study contributes to existing scholarship in the field of eighteenth-century grammars and grammarians by providing an in-depth study of Ash’s Grammatical Institutes and its influence on other popular grammars for children.