1,432 search results for “arabic language and linguistics” in the Staff website
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PhD candidate Camil Staps figured out what ‘out’ means
Words originally intended to indicate space, such as ‘out’, are also regularly used to indicate cause and effect. Why does this happen? And how does it work in other languages? PhD candidate Camil Staps decided to find out.
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Cortical contributions to cognitive control of language and beyond
PhD defence
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Six top rated programmes at humanities
The bachelor programmes German Language and Culture, Classics, Dutch Language and Culture, Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Religious studies and Linguistics have received the predicate top rated programme from the Keuzegids.
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Ghanaian Sign Language(s): History, Linguistics, and Ideology
PhD defence
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Suzan VerberneFaculty of Science
s.verberne@liacs.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Ahmad RifaiLeiden University Library
a.j.rifai@library.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Yiwen Zou
Faculty of Humanities
y.zou@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Mariëtte Groeneveld
Faculty of Humanities
m.p.groeneveld@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Nanouk Sabel
Faculty of Humanities
e.n.sabel@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Floris Meertens
Faculty of Humanities
g.f.meertens@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Roberta Schiralli
Faculty of Humanities
r.s.schiralli@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Natalia Gofman
Faculty of Humanities
n.d.gofman@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Tracy Huang
Faculty of Humanities
q.huang@hum.leidenuniv.nl |
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Lucja Czort
Faculty of Humanities
l.b.czort@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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René Wezel
Faculty of Humanities
r.wezel@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Florence Fabbricotti
Faculty of Humanities
f.f.fabbricotti@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Rosa VersluisFaculty of Humanities
r.c.m.versluis@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Zhibo Mu
Faculty of Humanities
z.mu@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Annabel Meester
Faculty of Humanities
a.meester@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Kumiko Hirata
Faculty of Humanities
k.hirata@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Lidy Bont
Faculty of Humanities
a.c.m.bont@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Mick Stam
Faculty of Humanities
m.stam@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Jeeyoung SeoFaculty of Humanities
j.seo@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
- With kind regards: Convention, standards and breaking the rules in letter-writing
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Inge LigtvoetFaculty of Humanities
i.j.g.c.ligtvoet@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271956
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News on Languages & Cultures domain
Education
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Mateo Cohen
Social & Behavioural Sciences
i.m.cohen@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Ahab BdaiwiFaculty of Humanities
a.bdaiwi@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1639
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High school students get acquainted with language studies at profile selection day
The Choose a Language Day was created to make high school students enthusiastic about choosing a linguistic profile and further education. Third-years were able to learn about different language studies at the Faculty of Humanities.
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Mily CrevelsFaculty of Humanities
e.i.crevels@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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NWO grant for Claartje Levelt: how toddlers learn words
Professor Claartje Levelt, together with Paula Fikkert (Radboud University), has received an NWO Open Competition grant for research into the development of word production in toddlers.
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Whose Language Is It, Anyway? Mapping Arabic in Modern Hebrew Literature
Middle East Studies Lecture
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Alina KarakantaFaculty of Humanities
a.karakanta@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272978
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NWO grant to research scent language in seventeenth-century literature: 'God is like a scent'
When it comes to literature, people mostly talk about what characters see or hear. Rarely is it about what they smell. That’s a shame, thinks university lecturer Jan van Dijkhuizen. He has been awarded an Open Competition grant from NWO to expand academic knowledge about scent in literature, and to…
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Crit CremersFaculty of Humanities
c.l.j.m.cremers@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Elise AlbertsFaculty of Humanities
s.e.alberts@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Rosa van StratenFaculty of Humanities
r.m.van.straten@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4128
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Language both connects and divides
Author and political scientist Mounir Samuel has spent recent years delving into the many ways that language can exclude people and bring them together.
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Pluractionality in classical and modern spoken Arabic
Lecture, Descriptive Linguistics Seminars
- SMILE - Experimental Linguistics series
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What does it actually say? Linguist launches video series on wall poems
The city centre of Leiden is covered in them: wall poems. When roaming around, you come across poetry written in the Latin alphabet, but also in scripts that might be more difficult to understand for the average person living in Leiden. In a new series of videos, Tijmen Pronk talks more about this.
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NWO Grant for Research into the History of Languages: ‘It tells us something about our past as humans’
A collaboration between linguists, geographers and anthropologists aims to uncover how languages spread across South America over thousands of years. Associate Professor Rik van Gijn is responsible for the linguistic side of this NWO project.
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From a rapper to an elegy: students of Italian make videos for a wide audience
A course that concludes with a video pitch, instead of a paper or examination: Italian Language and Culture students each recorded their own knowledge clip, speaking to a wide audience about Italian cultural expressions. We asked Goran Bouaziz, Cameron-May Bosch and Katja Timmer what they thought of…
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‘Humans are storytellers’: the power of stories in language development of children and AI models
What do ten-year-old children and chatbots have in common? PhD researcher Bram van Dijk studied language development in both children and AI language models. ‘It’s actually quite practical that we attribute human traits to a chatbot.’
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International Mother Language Day 2024: 'It's time to celebrate our languages'
On Wednesday, 21 February, a diverse group of students, staff, and representatives from 21 embassies gathered in The Hague for International Mother Language Day. Under the banner of 'a bit of fun and many serious topics,' language took centre stage.
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Beatrice Gründler: ‘Literary text can help us understand Europe better’
'Consider languages in their shared context.' That is the message of Professor and Arabist Beatrice Gründler, who will receive an honorary doctorate from Leiden University on 8 February. ‘I would like people to learn that Arabic history has a close connection with Europe.’
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Harry StroomerFaculty of Humanities
h.j.stroomer@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Tim LamérisFaculty of Humanities
t.j.lameris@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5634
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Workshop on Sign Language Histories
Workshop
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Development of broad Languages and Cultures BA programme to change to ‘Renewing and Strengthening Language Programmes’
As you may know, a draft profile for a broad BA programme in Languages and Cultures has been in development for some time. On 21 December 2021, the Faculty Board decided to end the design process of that broad bachelor’s degree programme. However, as the Faculty Board and partners in the discipline…