545 search results for “comparative linguistics” in the Staff website
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A quick call with Corinda van Bohemen about the SteunLeiden.nl crowdfunding platform
From an emergency fund for Ukrainian students to a golf tournament for cancer research at the LUMC: the Leiden University Fund (LUF) crowdfunding platform is full of fantastic projects that enrich the university. If you are looking for funding for your idea or special project, crowdfunding may just…
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ERC Starting Grant for Thijs Porck: 'Everyone loved Old English in the nineteenth century'
In the nationalist nineteenth century, people developed an interest in medieval language and literature. The study of medieval material in one’s own vernacular was thought to reveal a great national past. But why, then, was Old English studied by Germans, Danes, Italians and many other nationalities…
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In Memoriam Midas Berkenveld
With great shock, we have learned of the sudden passing of Midas Berkenveld. Midas was a second-year Biology student; in 2022, he had already successfully completed his bachelor's degree in Linguistics.
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ChatGPT has left-wing bias in Stemwijzer voting advice application
The AI chatbot ChatGPT has a clear left-liberal bias when filling in the Stemwijzer voting advice application. This was discovered by master's student Merel van den Broek during an assignment for the Machine Learning for Natural Language Processing course.
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The Leiden Dialectology Workshop Series (3)
Workshop Series
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The ongoing standardization of Sidaama, a Cushitic language of Ethiopia: challenges and perspectives
Lecture, This Time For Africa! series
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The Secondary Homelands of the Indo-European Languages (IG-AT2022)
Conference
- LACG Meetings
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Priority modality, scalarity and modal concord in Chinese
Lecture, CHiLL series
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Counting events: Syntax and semantics of Chinese verbal classifiers
Lecture, CHiLL series
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The Leiden Dialectology Workshop Series (1)
Workshop Series
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Phraseology in Children's Literature
PhD defence
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The Leiden Dialectology Workshop Series (4) and Introduction to QGIS Workshop
Workshop Series
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Computational modeling of non-native phonetic learning and spoken word processing
Lecture
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Particles and clitics in Bemba verbs
Lecture, Descriptive Linguistics Seminars
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Dialect Comparison and Historical Reconstruction
Lecture, Workshop Series
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Caribbean Literature - A Reading List
Caribbean literature holds a unique position in the world. Literature produced in the Caribbean region is extremely diverse, not only because of the wide variety of languages spoken, but also due to distinct colonial legacies that exist in the archipelago. Despite cultural specificities, the region…
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How to ask? Politeness strategies in historical letters
Workshop
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Heritage languages in the Netherlands: Scholars, teachers, and students in dialogue
Lecture, Workshop
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Research Seminar Janet Connor
Lecture, Research Seminar
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A Sociolinguistic Study of an Ewe-based Youth Language of Aflao, Ghana
PhD defence
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Speech Prosody 2024
Conference
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“All the aids which a beginner needs”: James Summers’ (1828-1891) research on Chinese grammar
PhD defence
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Events in language and cognition
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium series
- Language and the human past
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Ancient lexical borrowings between Sinitic and their northern neighbours
Lecture, CHiLL series
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SAILS event: Showcasing AI Research @ Humanities
Conference, Mini symposium
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The Sociolinguistics of Rhotacization in the Beijing Speech Community
PhD defence
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Rhetoric and Debate : A Toolkit for Historians
Lecture, PCNI Research Group State of the Art Meeting
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Non-Native Tone Categorization and Word Learning Across a Spectrum of L1 Tonal Statuses: Evidence from Dutch, Swedish, Japanese, and Thai
Lecture, research presentation
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The Denial of Racism on Twitter: A Critical Discourse Analysis
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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LUCDH Lunchtime Speaker Series: Between Logic, Language and Information: adventures in understanding large language models in hybrid settings
Lecture
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Quantity expressions on nominal and verbal domain in underrepresented languages spoken in Brazil
Lecture
- A Tale in Two Tongues
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European Day of Languages
Festival
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Definiteness and post-classifier NPE in Cantonese and Longdu
Lecture, CHiLL series
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Workshop: Other Forms of Understanding Language
Workshop-Poetry Lab
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Third LUCL Retired & Kicking Symposium
Lecture
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An Introduction to the Arabic Language History and Origins
Alumni event, Lunch webinar
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Pluractionality in classical and modern spoken Arabic
Lecture, Descriptive Linguistics Seminars
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AI & Humanities, Help, Hype or Hassle
Conference
- International Mother Language Day 2024
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The Leiden Dialectology Workshop Series (5)
Workshop Series
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Watañi lāntaṃ
PhD defence
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Telling Stories: Narrative Traditions from South and Southeast Asia
Roundtable
- This Time for Africa! series
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ERC Consolidator Grants for Leiden researchers
Five Leiden researchers have been awarded a Consolidator Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). This grant of up to two million euros will enable them to continue and expand their scientific research.
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All eyes on China: the Communist Party Congress is coming up
The world’s attention will shift to China as the Communist Party is set to hold its five-yearly congress beginning on 16 October. We talk to Senior University Lecturer Florian Schneider about how its leader Xi Jinping is expected to cement his place as the country’s most powerful leader since Mao Ze…
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A call about... the University Council
The University Council gives the Executive Board (un)solicited advice and helps decide on important topics. For example, permanent contracts for lecturers and the workload and well-being of our students and staff. It’s an important organ, but many staff have no idea what it does. ‘I think it’s great…
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LeidenASA Annual Meeting: Leiden-based Africa research in the spotlight
The Leiden African Studies Assembly (LeidenASA) held its Annual Meeting on 12 December. LeidenASA is the network of Leiden based Africa-researchers. Fifteen researchers gave pitches on their projects, and sketches of Leiden University's Africa strategy were outlined.