722 search results for “russian and slave linguistics” in the Staff website
- Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Siavash Rafiee RadFaculty of Humanities
s.rafiee.rad@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273942
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Levina de WolfFaculty of Humanities
l.j.de.wolf@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272110
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André GerritsFaculty of Humanities
a.w.m.gerrits@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646
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Bert BotmaFaculty of Humanities
e.d.botma@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272150
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World Congress of African Linguists (WOCAL): A conference like no other
The 10th edition of the World Congress of African Linguists (WOCAL), hosted by Leiden University, will be held online from 7 – 12 June. Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL) researchers give us an insight into how important and special this event actually is.
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Tim LamérisFaculty of Humanities
t.j.lameris@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275634
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Turan Hanci
Faculty of Humanities
t.hanci@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277882
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Social media
Making use of social media is a good way to meet others or to hear about the latest news and developments. But it also has its downsides: disinformation, trolling, disrespectful comments and even the misuse of (personal) data.
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Leticia Pablos RoblesFaculty of Humanities
l.pablos.robles@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272106
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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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Ingrid Tieken-Boon van OstadeFaculty of Humanities
i.m.tieken@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Modality without moods? Preliminary considerations for a systematic study of modal strategies in Hittite
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium | Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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Martine BruilFaculty of Humanities
m.bruil@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273340
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Niels SchoubbenFaculty of Humanities
n.schoubben@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272408
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Jenny Doetjes investigates 'How much' with NWO Open Competition grant
Professor Jenny Doetjes has received an NWO grant to research the cross-linguistic properties of quantity expressions and our brain's influence on language.
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Maarten van LeeuwenFaculty of Humanities
m.van.leeuwen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272073
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Marina TerkourafiFaculty of Humanities
m.terkourafi@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273159
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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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Nivja de JongFaculty of Humanities
n.h.de.jong@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272956
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Isaac ScarboroughFaculty of Humanities
i.m.scarborough@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272655
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Saskia DunnFaculty of Humanities
s.e.dunn@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272246
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Emi YamamotoFaculty of Humanities
e.yamamoto@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271565
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Meike de Boer: ‘The word 'uh' can help track down suspects’
In the new video series 'The World of Linguistics', alumni and researchers talk about their passion for their field. PhD candidate Meike de Boer knows everything about the word ‘uh’.
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Maarten Mous: ‘Your language is part of the world’
In the new video series 'The World of Linguistics', alumni and researchers talk about their passion for their field. Professor of African Linguistics Maarten Mous explains the importance of hearing your language at school.
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Johanneke CaspersFaculty of Humanities
j.caspers@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272157
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Hannah De MulderFaculty of Humanities
h.n.m.de.mulder@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277563
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Digging for treasure in archives: what did spoken Scots sound like?
How did Scottish speakers sound hundreds of years ago? University lecturer Mo Gordon thinks the answer to that question can be found in church archives. 'It can be a boost to your identity to know the history of your language.'
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Talent for languages test: National Linguistics Olympiad puts language sense to the test for high school students
How would you convert Egyptian hieroglyphs into Latin script? And what is actually the correct translation of dishes on a Vietnamese menu? On Saturday 28 January, high school students from all over the Netherlands will come to Leiden to ponder a series of language-related puzzles. Their goal? To win…
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Alex Reuneker awarded Frans van Eemeren prize
University lecturer Alex Reuneker has won the Frans van Eemeren Prize for his paper 'Assessing classification reliability of conditionals in discourse'.
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Student Sjoerd reveals link between cloth trade and slavery
What do the cloth trade and slavery have to do with each other? Quite a lot, as it turns out, as by history student Sjoerd Ramackers demonstrated in his bachelor’s thesis. He reveals that cloth merchant Daniel van Eijs was closely associated with four plantations in Berbice, a former Dutch colony on…
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Wiktor Pawlowski
Faculty of Humanities
w.a.pawlowski@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272213
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Alina KarakantaFaculty of Humanities
a.karakanta@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272978
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Susana ValdezFaculty of Humanities
s.valdez@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5278984
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Hossam AhmedFaculty of Humanities
h.i.ahmed@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274417
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Natasja DelbarFaculty of Humanities
n.a.delbar@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5278013
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How language reveals what you're really saying: 'Interesting if it's language-independent'
In a conversation, you provide all sorts of information to the listener. For example, you can indicate that you're certain about something, or that you heard it through someone else. Associate Professor Jenneke van der Wal has been awarded a Vici grant to investigate whether the way people do this is…
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Eduardo Alves VieiraFaculty of Humanities
e.alves.vieira@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275638
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PhD candidate Alex Reuneker’s research: What do we mean when we use ‘if’?
‘If it rains later, then I’ll take the car.’ In order to reason, we use sentences containing ‘if’ every single day. But how does that work exactly in the Dutch language? Alex Reuneker wrote his 628 page dissertation on the subject. Ceremony on 26 January.
- International conference on Russian-language literature in emigration
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Lisa ChengFaculty of Humanities
l.l.cheng@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272104
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Victoria NystAfrika-Studiecentrum
v.a.s.nyst@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272208
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Graduate School
Welcome to the Graduate School of the Faculty of Humanities. On this website you'll find a wide range of information you might need as a PhD candidate. If you have any further questions, please contact the Graduate School Office.
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Gijsbert RuttenFaculty of Humanities
g.j.rutten@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272112
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Ariëlle ReitsemaFaculty of Humanities
a.reitsema@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272136
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Matthijs WesteraFaculty of Humanities
m.westera@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277535
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Maria del Carmen Parafita Couto: ‘I have to speak to my cats in Galician’
In the new video series 'The World of Linguistics', alumni and researchers talk about their passion for their field. University lecturer Maria Del Carmen Parafita Couto speaks about bilingualism.
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Opposing the French participle clause
The Dutch phrase ‘ijs en weder dienende’ (literally, ‘ice and weather serving’) is a good example of what is known as a participle clause and is perhaps one of the most unfathomable grammatical constructions in Dutch. For what (or who) is serving whom (or what)? It actually means ‘ice and weather permitting’.…
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Cattle, rather than geometric shapes, determine how the Hamar see the world
Sara Petrollino, a university lecturer in linguistics, strongly believes that language influences the way we see the world. An NWO Open Competition (XS) grant will enable her to test this hypothesis among the Ethiopian Hamar people. ‘The idea that everyone thinks in geometric shapes is culturally de…