159 search results for “comparative syntax” in the Staff website
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Catharine DiehlFaculty of Humanities
c.e.diehl@phil.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274187
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Rosa Maria de Lima RibeiroFaculty of Humanities
r.maria.de.lima.riberio@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Sjef Barbiers new Managing Director of INT
Professor Sjef Barbiers will be appointed Managing Director of the Institute for the Dutch Language (INT) with effect from 1 September 2025. He will step down as scientific director of LUCL as of that date.
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How seals point to an undocumented prehistoric language
Language can be a time machine: we can learn from ancient texts how our ancestors interacted with the world around them. But can language also teach us something about people whose language has been lost? PhD candidate Anthony Jakob investigated whether the languages of prehistoric populations left…
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Factors Influencing Maternal Employment After Childbirth: A Comparative Analysis between Japan and Three European Countries
Lecture
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A Comparative Study of Cosmology and its Dynamics in Zhang Zai and Max Scheler
PhD defence
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Data Structures for Quantum Circuit Verification and How To Compare Them
PhD defence
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In memoriam: Takamitsu Muraoka (1938-2026)
On February 10, 2026, emeritus Professor Dr. Takamitsu Muraoka (1938–2026) passed away, one day after celebrating his 88th birthday. From 1991 until his retirement in 2003, he held the chair of Hebrew Language and Culture, Israelite Antiquities, and Ugaritic at Leiden University.
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Michael Meffert
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
meffertmf@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Francesca van RavensteinFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
f.van.ravenstein@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Bram de HeideFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
b.w.f.de.heide@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273512
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Oliviér Nuyts
Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
o.m.j.nuyts@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Hester de BoerFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
h.de.boer@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Martin LipmanFaculty of Humanities
m.a.lipman@phil.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275168
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Manolis FragkiadakisFaculty of Humanities
m.fragkiadakis@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5278059
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Reanalysing asymmetry in Xichangana (S53): evidence from applicative constructions
Lecture, This Time for Africa! series
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Lucien van Beek receives LUF grant: 'It is a great feeling to be able to work on my ideas'
University lecturer Lucien van Beek has been awarded a LUF Praesidium Libertatis Grant. He will use the sum of 75,000 euros to research the thinking of people in ancient and prehistoric times. To do that, he will look for unusual or striking metaphors in the earliest Indo-European languages.
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How migration policy in autocracies and democracies differs from what we expect
What is the effect of a certain regime on a country’s migration policy? Political scientist Katharina Natter compared the migration policy of autocratic Morocco with that of democratising Tunisia. Her findings challenge some of the core assumptions.
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Multilingualism of Frisian children: Evelyn Bosma wins Keetje Hodshon Prize
Postdoc and linguist Evelyn Bosma receives the Keetje Hodshon Prize for her dissertation. For her research on the multilingualism of Frisian children, Bosma previously won the Klokhuis Science Prize and the Campus Fryslân Science Prize.
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Debtors in Possession: A Legal Comparative Study of the Role of Debtors in US, EU and Dutch Restructuring and Insolvency Law
PhD defence
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In the Spotlight: Summer School in Languages and Linguistics
After having been cancelled in 2020, this year the Summer School in Languages and Linguistics is going online. From 12 – 23 July, language and linguistics enthusiasts from all over the world can once again learn about a variety of rare languages and linguistics topics. Director Sasha Lubotsky tells…
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Leiden Law Cast: The prison population NL vs. BE with Miranda Boone
Leiden Law Cast is a podcast made by Leiden Law School, Leiden University, for everyone who wants to learn more about current legal issues.
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Aone van EngelenhovenFaculty of Humanities
a.van.engelenhoven@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272072
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Sigrid van WingerdenFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
s.g.c.van.wingerden@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5278588
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Claartje LeveltFaculty of Humanities
c.c.levelt@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272103
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Wouter KalfFaculty of Humanities
w.f.kalf@phil.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272232
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Thijs van BeekFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
o.m.j.van.beek@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275714
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Rebecca Naous
Faculteit Governance and Global Affairs
r.n.naous@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009506
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PhD candidate Anne Hendrikx: ‘I had to buy an extra bookcase for my research.’
What once began as an assignment for a master’s course and continued as a master’s thesis, has now culminated in a substantial book. Or has it finished? Actually, for Hendrikx, this is just the beginning: ‘I can finally reap the rewards of my research.’
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Explaining typological universals from the perspective of language change: The diachronic emergence of alienability splits cross-linguistically
Lecture, Language and the Human Past
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Six new grants bring Leiden University researchers and Una Europa partners together
Leiden University researchers will be working more closely with colleagues at Una Europa partner universities this year. Three research projects have been awarded up to €40,000 in Una Europa seed funding to explore questions related to democracy and AI, web tracking technologies and clean energy.
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Una Europa project update: Enhancing Scholarship in Eastern Africa (ELSEA)
In September, the Una Europa ELSEA project, Enhancing Scholarship in Eastern Africa, officially started. Now that the project has been running for a couple of months, it’s high time to check in and see how the project is going.
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Erik BähreFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
ebaehre@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273997
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Frank ChouraquiFaculty of Humanities
f.chouraqui@phil.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272006
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Maarten MousFaculty of Humanities
m.mous@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Zane Kripe
z.kripe@liacs.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Nominalization: the view from syntactic approaches to word formation
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium - Series '24/'25
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Relative chronology and the reconstruction of the Proto-Indo-European stop systems
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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Reassessing the etymology of Greek katharós ‘clean, stainless, pure’
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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Skill issues: conceptual metaphors and the etymology of Vedic r̥tá
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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Mandarin shì and Vietnamese là: A Tale of Two Complementizers
Lecture, CHiLL series
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On Mandarin modals and the distribution of subjects
Lecture, CHiLL series
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Mistaken Identities
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium
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Working memory capacity predicts sensitivity to prosodic structure
Lecture, SMILE Talks
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A Luwian song in Old Hittite and its relevance for the study of negation compounds
Lecture, CIEL Seminars
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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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The aorist system of Phrygian
Lecture
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Patterns of semantic change and reconstruction
Lecture