514 search results for “comparative syntax” in the Public website
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Comparative Indo-European Linguistics
Reconstructing language history and prehistory in the context of the Indo-European language family.
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Comparing apples and oranges: What grinding and portioning can tell us about gender and atomicity
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Theoretical Linguistics
Studying the underlying principles of the nature of language.
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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…
- Philosophy: Global and Comparative Perspectives
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Designating Place: Archaeological Perspectives on Built Environments in Ostia and Pompeii
Spatial analysis on the basis of material culture has always been one of the major topics in archaeological research. Designating Place analyses the urban space of Roman Ostia and Pompeii in different ways, namely via geophysical analysis, spatial analysis, iconographic analysis and epigraphic analy…
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Comparative Indo-European Linguistics
Almost all languages of Europe and of a large part of western Asia belong to a single language family, which is called Indo-European, and which includes modern languages like English, Dutch, Russian, Farsi, but also ancient ones like Ancient Greek, Latin, Hittite and Sanskrit.
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Comparative genomics of the balanced lethal system in Triturus newts
All crested and marbled newts (the genus Triturus) suffer from an unusual genetic abnormality, called a balanced lethal system, that kills exactly half of their offspring. How can a trait so disadvantageous have survived millions of years of natural selection?
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Comparative wood anatomy and evolution of Apocynaceae and Sapotaceae
In my research, I used a comparative wood anatomical approach to address wood evolution of the (largely) tropical flowering plant families Apocynaceae and Sapotaceae.
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Online Experience Philosophy: Global and Comparative Perspectives
Study information, Online Experience
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Fei BaiFaculty of Humanities
r.bai@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272076
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Aspect and Subjectivity in Modal Constructions
This dissertation investigates the interaction of aspect and subjectivity in modal constructions.
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A comparative study of COVID-19 responses in South Korea and Japan: political nexus triad and policy responses
This study aims to examine how South Korea (hereafter, Korea) and Japan, two neighboring countries in Northeast Asia, have been responding to and mitigating the spread of COVID-19.
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Reflections on comparative teaching in public administration
Kohei Suzuki and his co-authors reflect on their extensive scholarly experience teaching comparative public administration across diverse countries including Canada, the Netherlands, Qatar, and the United States.
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Lecture by George Walkden
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Philosophy: Global and Comparative Perspectives (BA)
This Philosophy: Global and Comparative Perspectives bachelor's programme is unique. It offers comparative perspectives from around the world that will enable you to be part of the next generation of thinkers, someone studying and shaping philosophy for a globalised 21st century.
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The DP-Internal Origin of Datives
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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An experimental investigation of syntactic and discourse-processing claims about filler-gap dependencies: Adjunct islands and parasitic gaps
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Towards a label-less grammar: Eradicating labels from the grammar
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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A grammar of Bantawa: Grammar, paradigm tables, glossary and texts of a Rai language of Eastern Nepal
This dissertation provides a comprehensive overview of the grammar of Bantawa, a Kiranti (Rai) language spoken in Eastern Nepal.
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Adult language acquisition and syntactic change
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Online Course Terrorism & Counterterrorism: Comparing Theory & Practice
This six-weeks online course delves into the research behind terrorism as it unpacks the assumptions and impacts of both terrorism and counterterrorism.
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‘My mother’, ‘Your father’: Suppletive kinship terms in African languages
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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The functional load shift from case to adposition: the role of L2-difficulty
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Discourse sensitivity in argument realization
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Dissecting habituality: The Croatian know and its kin
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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The Three Phases of Early Missing Subjects: Evidence from Creole Language Acquisition
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Wh-island effects are similar in English and Spanish
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Four types of Internal Merge and the locus of Linearization
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Preposition Omission and Focus in German Fragments: A Case for a Q-Based Approach
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Preverbal focus in Kîîtharaka revisited
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Focus and ellipsis
This project aims at investigating the syntactic role of focus in ellipsis across languages.
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Why does water have a blue colour? Modification of Nouns and the Possession of Properties
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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On the source of polarity (in)sensitivity in the domain of degree modifiers
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Hypothetical comparison clauses in Dutch dialects
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Counterfactuality in typological perspective: Irrealis markers, blocking effects, and theoretical implications
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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The internal structure of sentential negation: A view from suppletion
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Left node not raising: Word part ellipsis revisited
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Common ground management and its morphosyntactic reflexes in Martinican Creole wh-questions
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Gradability in the nominal domain
This dissertation investigates whether and how gradability is manifested in the nominal domain, as well as the implications this could have for theories of the representation of gradability.
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Head-finality, Predicate Fronting and Spell-out Domains
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Crime and gender 1600-1900: a comparative perspective
This project contests the assumption of criminologists that gender differences in recorded crime are static over time and that women are in general less likely to commit a crime than men.
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Xuan TangFaculty of Humanities
x.tang@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272613
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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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Online Course Introduction to Comparative Indo-European Linguistics
Indo-European is the name of the language family to which English belongs, along with many sub-families such as Germanic languages and Romance languages. In this course, you will delve into the structure and origins of these branches, the oldest languages belonging to the language family, linguistic…
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IIMIGRATI: Ireland and Italy’s migration experiences since 1945 compared
How has migration affected Irish and Italy society since 1945?
- Exploring new methods in comparing sign language corpora
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The nature of evidentiality
This project launches a research program into the theoretical status and the terminological basis of evidentiality systems.
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Mazepus, Veenendaal, McCarthy-Jones & Vásquez, A comparative study of legitimation strategies in hybrid regimes
A comparative analysis of legitimation strategies in tree hybrid regimes: Russia, Venezuela, and Seychelles.