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2,258 search results for “historical” in the Public website

• Professor Stahn discusses historic legacy of ICTY on Genocide at Nuremberg News - 10 May 2017

  On Saturday 6 May 2017, Professor Stahn discussed the legacy of the ICTY on the crime of genocide in Courtroom 600 at Nuremberg.

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  Niels Schoubben Postdoc

  Faculty of Humanities

  n.schoubben@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727

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  Tijmen Pronk Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  t.c.pronk@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4168

• Arabic and its alternatives: Religious minorities in the formative years of the modern Middle East (1920-1950) Research project

  This project aims to revisit the ways in which religious minorities in the Middle East participated in, contributed to, and opposed the Arab nationalism of the post-war years, when the British and French ruled the region via the Mandates. Research question: How did religious minorities in the Middle…

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  Maarten Kossmann Professor of Berber Studies

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.g.kossmann@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2649

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  Janet Grijzenhout Professor English Linguistics

  Faculty of Humanities

  j.grijzenhout@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1470

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  Siavash Rafiee Rad University Lecturer Persian

  Faculty of Humanities

  s.rafiee.rad@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3942

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  Hilde Gunnink Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  h.gunnink@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727

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  Gabe van Beijeren Bergen en Henegouwen Language Skills Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  g.g.van.beijeren.bergen.en.henegouwen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 6509

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  Gijsbert Rutten Professor Dutch Linguistics specifically Language change and language variation

  Faculty of Humanities

  g.j.rutten@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272112

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  Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade Professor emeritus English Sociohistorical Linguistics

  Faculty of Humanities

  i.m.tieken@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727

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  Claudio Di Felice University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  c.di.felice@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2187

• Pickpocket compounds from Latin to Romance Research output

  This thesis discusses the development in Proto–Indo–European, Latin and Romance of a word–formation pattern which the most adequate terminology in use dubs ‘verbal government compounds with a governing first member’; I use the shorthand ‘pickpocket compounds’.

• Summer School: Historical Performance Studies Event - 27 March 2023
• What late medieval chant manuscripts do to a present-day performer of plainchant Research output

  This book is witness to Hendrik Vanden Abeele’s research into the development, construction and creation of a present-day performance practice of late medieval plainchant, based partly on his work with the Belgian chant group Psallentes.

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  Michaël Peyrot Professor Comparative Indo-European Linguistics

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.peyrot@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4177

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  Jiang Wu Postdoc

  Faculty of Humanities

  j.wu@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2125

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  Hester Groot PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  h.e.groot@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2125

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  Matthew Sung PhD candidate / contract

  Faculty of Humanities

  h.w.m.sung@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272125

• Innovation in tradition Research output

  This dissertation explores the history of the language of a manuscript known as Tönnies Fonne's Russian-German Phrasebook (Pskov 1607).

• Joseph Priestley, Grammarian: Late Modern English normativism and usage in a sociohistorical context Research output

  This dissertation the role of the English dissenting minister Joseph Priestley (1733-1804) as a grammarian is studied.

• Antiquities of the rainforest: evolution of mycoheterotrophic angiosperms growing on Glomeromycota Research output

  Promotor: Prof.dr. E.F. Smets, Co-promotor: Dr. V.S.F.T. Merckx

• British Celtic Influence on English Phonology Research output

  This dissertation assesses the influence of British Celtic on the phonological development of English during and shortly after the Anglo-Saxon settlement period, ca. AD 450-700.

• Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger: life and work with special attention paid to basso continuo Research output

  The thesis presents a new perspective on Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger (ca.1580-1651), who is nowadays only famous for his works for theorbo and lute, his remarkable output of vocal music of all genres being still mostly neglected from musicologists and performers.

• The Tocharian subjunctive (2004-2010) Research output

  In this study, the formation of the Tocharian subjunctive is described, its use and meaning are analysed and its origins are investigated.

• The dawn of Dutch: language change in the Low Countries between 500 and 1200 AD Research project

  The main goal of this project is to answer the question: how did Dutch acquire its own, distinctive linguistic characteristics?

• The Germanic loanwords in Proto-Slavic: origin and accentuation Research output

  This dissertation provides a thorough review of the words belonging to the oldest layer of Germanic loanwords in Proto-Slavic and answers the question of how these words were adapted to the Proto-Slavic accentual system.

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  Manuel Cabal Lopez Assistant professor

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

  m.a.cabal.lopez@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 VOLGT

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  Ian Simpson Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Archaeology

• Lectures in Historical Linguistics and Philology Event
• Summer School: Historical Performance Studies (5 ECTS) Course
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  Olga van Marion University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  o.van.marion@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2128

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  Kate Bellamy Postdoctoral Researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

  k.r.bellamy@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2125

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  Marina Terkourafi Professor Sociolinguistics

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.terkourafi@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3159

• Adaptive performance practice of instrumental chamber music in German cities at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries Research project

  This research proposal focuses on historically informed performance (HIP) and adaptive performance practices within the late 18th-century German musical context.

• The Hittite Inherited Lexicon Research output

  This dissertation attempts to describe the linguistic history of Hittite on the basis of a systematic etymological treatment of its entire inherited lexicon, precisely analyzing the phonological and morphological developments.

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  Alette Jansen PhD-fellow

  Faculty of Law

  a.c.jansen@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727

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  Jesse Wichers Schreur Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  j.g.wichers.schreur@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2125

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  Stefan Norbruis Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  s.norbruis@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727

• Historic Literary Guided Tour - Literary Leiden Event - 19 April 2023

  Stadswandeling

• Letters confiscated from Dutch ships now online News - 13 September 2013

  More than a thousand 17th- and 18th-century Dutch letters from seized ships are now available online. The letters are a gold mine for researchers wanting to study the everyday language used by men and women during this period.

• Third oldest Papiamento text discovered News - 8 November 2012

  Leiden University researchers have discovered by chance a note from 1783 in Papiamento. They are working on a linguistic study on confiscated Dutch letters. The ‘Letters as loot’ project is headed by Professor Marijke van der Wal.

• Join our Information Evening in Leiden historic center (or online) Event - 15 November 2021
• Studying the historical roots of sign languages – methodological issues Event - 19 April 2024

  Lecture

• Mongolic Phonology and the Qinghai-Gansu Languages Research output

  This dissertation provides an overview of the phonological developments of the Qinghai-Gansu languages, comparing them to the reconstructed ancestral language.

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  Rik van Gijn Associate professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  e.van.gijn@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272413

• The Netherlands enthralled by Spanish theatre News - 7 June 2021

  Joost van den Vondel is considered to be the greatest Dutch poet and playwright of his time, but he certainly wasn’t the most popular. The 17th- and 18th-century public preferred to watch ‘Spanish theatre’. University lecturer Olga van Marion has written a book about this, together with Frans Blom (University…

• La llamada del pasado: claves de la teoría de la historia Research output

  A Spanish translation of Herman Paul’s 'Key Issues in Historical Theory' has appeared under the title 'La llamada del pasado: claves de la teoría de la historia'.

• Lindley Murray (1745–1826), Quaker and Grammarian Research output

  In this dissertation, a comprehensive portrait of the American-born Quaker Lindley Murray (1745–1826) is painted and the influence of Murray’s Quakerism on his language use is investigated by analyzing a corpus of 262 of his unpublished private letters.

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  Axel Palmér Guest researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.i.palmer@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727