561 search results for “austronesian languages and linguistics” in the Staff website
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Wim TiggesFaculty of Humanities
w.tigges@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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MODIFED: Morphosyntactic Dialect Feature Detection Workshop
Workshop
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Rolf BremmerFaculty of Humanities
r.h.bremmer@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Gijsbert RuttenFaculty of Humanities
g.j.rutten@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2112
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A History of Alorese (Austronesian)
PhD defence
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Anneke Both-de VriesFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
bothanna@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4834
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Dick SmakmanFaculty of Humanities
d.smakman@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2607
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Linguists: crimefighters extraordinaire
Rector Magnificus Carel Stolker will retire on 8 February. If there’s one theme running through his career, it’s the links between the University and society. In this series of pre-retirement discussions, Stolker will talk one last time to people from within and without the University. In this first…
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Isaac WeiFaculty of Humanities
y.wei@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2125
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Jill JefferyFaculty of Humanities
j.v.jeffery@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1513
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Sophia NautaFaculty of Humanities
s.m.nauta@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2125
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How Russia uses language as a weapon of war
According to Russian propaganda Ukrainians are Nazis and people from the West are Satanists. Egbert Fortuin thinks we should take this propaganda seriously.
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Ae Ree NamFaculty of Humanities
a.r.nam@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 6415
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Jin Hee ParkFaculty of Humanities
j.h.park@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5755
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‘Language is part of your identity’
Language is omnipresent: when you talk, app or meet in Teams. Understanding how we communicate with one another and what communication does to us is essential. In her inaugural lecture, Nivja de Jong will call to redress the balance between the sciences and the humanities.
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Esther Op de BeekFaculty of Humanities
e.a.op.de.beek@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4381
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Hannah De MulderFaculty of Humanities
h.n.m.de.mulder@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 7563
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Leticia Pablos RoblesFaculty of Humanities
l.pablos.robles@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2106
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Fenna PoletiekFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
poletiek@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3641
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Public lecture: On the Diversity and the Formation of Creole Languages
Lecture
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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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The use of language analyses in Dutch citizenship procedures from a legal and ethical perspective
Lecture, This Time For Africa! series
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Ethnonyms as windows into the past: untangling past and present contacts in Ngamiland, Botswana
Lecture, This Time for Africa! series
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Language during war: the changing position of Russian in Ukraine
The impact of war extends beyond destroyed buildings and torn families. In bilingual Ukraine, the ongoing war with Russia is a major driver for increasingly discarding the Russian language. What does this mean for the position of Russian in Ukraine?
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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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New language proficiency requirements for new PhD candidates (starting trajectory from 1 September 2024 onwards)
Research
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News on Languages & Cultures domain
Education
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Brenda AssendelftFaculty of Humanities
b.m.e.assendelft@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Johanneke CaspersFaculty of Humanities
j.caspers@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2157
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How AI helps map sign languages
Like spoken languages, sign languages evolve organically and do not always have the same origin. This produces different ways of communication and annotation. Manolis Fragkiadakis wrote his PhD thesis on this.
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‘Stemmen van Afrika’ wins popularisation prize: 'Language is more than grammar'
The Voices of Africa platform is ten years old and has just recently won the annual popularisation prize of the Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics (LOT). High time for a chat with Jenneke van der Wal, Maarten Mous and Nina van der Vlugt about the importance of the platform and plans for the…
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Siavash Rafiee RadFaculty of Humanities
s.rafiee.rad@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3942
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Benjamin StormeFaculty of Humanities
b.p.p.storme@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2175
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Yiya ChenFaculty of Humanities
yiya.chen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1688
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High school students get acquainted with language studies at profile selection day
The Choose a Language Day was created to make high school students enthusiastic about choosing a linguistic profile and further education. Third-years were able to learn about different language studies at the Faculty of Humanities.
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Why is that word there? Research on language structure completed
Communication is the transmission of information. All day long we are busy explaining and making things clear to each other, but exactly how we do that varies from language to language. Associate Professor Jenneke van der Wal delved into African Bantu languages for a Vidi project.
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NWO grant for research about crossing language borders: ‘ We know very little about how multilingualism works outside Western societies’
Professor Felix Ameka and university lecturer Maria del Carmen Parafita Couta have received an NWO Open Competition grant together with Enoch Aboh (University of Amsterdam) to do research on ‘code-switching’: switching languages by multilinguals.
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Speech Prosody 2024
Conference
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Winged Words: Diachronic and Comparative Perspectives on Conceptual Metaphors
Conference
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Xuan TangFaculty of Humanities
x.tang@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2125
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Anikó LiptákFaculty of Humanities
a.k.liptak@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3320
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Egbert FortuinFaculty of Humanities
e.fortuin@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2075
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Astrid VandendaeleFaculty of Humanities
a.vandendaele@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2125
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Nancy Kula: ‘Languages are very diverse’
Nancy Kula has been Professor of African Linguistics since 1 February. Now is a good time to hear more about her field of expertise and academic interests.
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Azeb AmhaAfrika-Studiecentrum
a.amha@asc.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3364
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Ben ArpsFaculty of Humanities
b.arps@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2222
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Ola UttenweilerFaculty of Humanities
a.uttenweiler@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Yinzhi ZhangFaculty of Humanities
y.z.zhang@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2519
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Arnout KoornneefFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
a.w.koornneef@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1861
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Elisabeth KerrFaculty of Humanities
e.j.kerr@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2125