Last Thursday, March 6, Sabine Luning passed away after an illness of more than six months. Sabine was an inspiring teacher who enthused generations of anthropology students with both the theoretical side of social science and the practice of intensive fieldwork. As a researcher, she produced innovative…

Medewerkers van de Universiteit Leiden trappen maandag 10 maart de estafettestaking af van de Nederlandse universiteiten tegen de kabinetsbezuinigingen.

Yuyang Wei is a PhD candidate at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics.

Longming Shichuan is a PhD candidate at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics.

Anikó Lipták is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Linguistics. She studies syntactic rules in grammar, with special attention to crosslinguistic variation and the interface between syntax and information structure, as well as between syntax and word formation. Currently, her focus is on the structure…

The financial sector, supply chains and ecology. Not necessarily topics you might associate with physics, yet it’s exactly what new professor Diego Garlaschelli is dealing with. The common thread? Complex networks.

Turan Hanci is a a PhD researcher at Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL). His PhD project is about vowel harmony in Turkish.

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Bert Botma is a University Lecturer at the Centre for Linguistics. His expertise is in phonology and in overlapping areas of phonetics and morphology. His main research interest is the internal structure of segments and syllables. He works on a range of languages, including (Old) English, Dutch, Nivkh…

Benjamin Storme is an Assistant Professor of French linguistics at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. His main areas of specialization are phonology and experimental linguistics.

Nancy C. Kula is Professor and Chair of African Linguistics. Her research interests focus on a range of topics in African and General Linguistics with a focus on Bantu Languages investigating phonology, morphology, tone and their interfaces. She also works on Language Policy in Africa, specifically…

Janet Grijzenhout holds the chair of English linguistics.

Maria Carmen Parafita Couto studies the impact of bilingualism and language contact on language structure, mostly the syntax of code-switching.

Renfei Bai is a PhD candidate at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics.

Martijn Lemmen is a lecturer and PhD candidate/guest at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics.

Martin Kroon is a guest researcher at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics.

Crisófia Langa da Câmara is a PhD student at Centre for Linguistics. She is Mozambican and has been working on Mozambican Bantu languages description; minority and endangered languages documentation, Linguistic Landscape, Indigenous Ecological Knowledge Preservation and Morphology and Syntax of the…

Jiang Wu is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Linguistics. He is currently involved in the NWO-funded project

Lisa Cheng is Professor of General Linguistics at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. Her research interests centre upon comparative syntax, and the interactions between syntax and semantics, syntax and prosody, as well as syntax and processing. She is a co-founder of the Leiden Institute…

Astrid van Alem is a lecturer at the Centre for Linguistics.

Matthijs Westera is an assistant professor at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics.

Does gravity work the same when you look at the largest scales in our universe? That’s what Leiden physicist Alessandra Silvestri will study with a 2 million euro ERC Consolidator grant. ‘We assume that it does, but we don’t actually know.’

Carole Tiberius is a professor at the Centre for Linguistics.

I'm a university lecturer at Leiden University. My main research project is to develop a new concept of 'relativity' and defend its application to a range of phenomena, such as the nature of time and consciousness. I also have an active interest in the philosophy of perception, part-whole structures,…

When deciding what to study you undoubtedly read a lot of information about your study programme. Leiden University employs various systems to provide information about programmes and courses and to facilitate communication between lecturers and students.

When deciding what to study you undoubtedly read a lot of information about your study programme. Leiden University employs various systems to provide information about programmes and courses and to facilitate communication between lecturers and students.

When deciding what to study you undoubtedly read a lot of information about your study programme. Leiden University employs various systems to provide information about programmes and courses and to facilitate communication between lecturers and students.

When deciding what to study you undoubtedly read a lot of information about your study programme. Leiden University employs various systems to provide information about programmes and courses and to facilitate communication between lecturers and students.