440 search results for “historical linguistics” in the Staff website
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Henrike Jansen
Faculty of Humanities
h.jansen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2131
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Hannah De Mulder
Faculty of Humanities
h.n.m.de.mulder@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 7563
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Keiko Yoshioka
Faculty of Humanities
k.yoshioka@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2553
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Lettie Dorst
Faculty of Humanities
a.g.dorst@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3026
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Carmen Kleinherenbrink
Faculty of Humanities
c.kleinherenbrink@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2125
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Dunja Wackers
Science
wackers@physics.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5500
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Leticia Pablos Robles
Faculty of Humanities
l.pablos.robles@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2106
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Reunionists of Leiden Historical Debating Society celebrate 65th anniversary: 'We are more alive than ever'
Friday 4 November marked the 65th anniversary of the founding of Leiden’s P.C. Hooft Historical Debating Society. Although new members have not been accepted for several decades, the society is still alive and kicking. A retrospective with former presidents Jos Hooghuis and Saskia Leupen.
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Vidi grant for Angus Mol: ‘Historical games are like time machines’
How do games help shape our perception of the past? Associate Professor Angus Mol receives a Vidi grant to answer this question.
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The mechanism behind a friendly chat: 'Puzzle gets unravelled bit by bit'
A friendly chat is more complicated than you might think. As soon as the other person finishes talking, you already have an answer ready. But how do we know when it's time to change turns? University lecturer Johanneke Caspers has been awarded an NWO Open Competition grant to investigate the role of…
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Linguistic atlases, and dialect maps
Workshop Series
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Dialect Comparison and Historical Reconstruction
Lecture, Workshop Series
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Student Aline-Priscillia: ‘I am an odd academic, I’m not very attached to outcomes’
In the new video series 'The World of Linguistics', alumni and academics talk about their passion for their field. Student Aline-Priscillia is particularly curious about how language is processed in the brain.
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Bert Botma
Faculty of Humanities
e.d.botma@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2150
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Maarten van Leeuwen
Faculty of Humanities
m.van.leeuwen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2073
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Johanneke Caspers
Faculty of Humanities
j.caspers@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2157
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Charlotte van der Voort
Faculty of Humanities
c.van.der.voort@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2125
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Longming Shichuan
Faculty of Humanities
l.shichuan@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2125
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Ying-ting Wang
Faculty of Humanities
y.wang@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2520
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Eduardo Alves Vieira
Faculty of Humanities
e.alves.vieira@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5638
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How to ask? Politeness strategies in historical letters
Workshop
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Heritage Sites in the light of today’s global challenges: the case of Historic Bridgetown and Its Garrison'
Last month (February 5-8 2024), the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados, hosted a workshop entitled ‘Caribbean World Heritage Sites in the light of today’s global challenges: the case of Historic Bridgetown and Its Garrison’.
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Johan Rooryck receives honorary doctorate from Tromsø University
Professor Johan Rooryck, currently executive director of cOAlition S, will receive an honorary doctorate from the University of Tromsø for his commitment to open access in science. He will be awarded the honorary doctorate on 1 September.
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Olga van Marion
Faculty of Humanities
o.van.marion@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2128
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Vincent Chang
Faculty of Humanities
v.k.chang@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2151
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Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics 2022
Conference
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10 years of Georgian at Leiden University: Ramaz Kurdadze returns
This year marks a special occasion because it was just ten years ago that the Georgian language was taught for the first time at Leiden University. It is even more exciting that its first professor, Ramaz Kurdadze, will return to Leiden this year to teach students interested in the language. Kurdadze…
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New professor Alwin Kloekhorst: 'The origin of your language also says something about you'
Where does Dutch come from? Newly appointed Professor Alwin Kloekhorst looks for an answer to that question in millennia-old languages from Anatolia, the Asian part of present-day Turkey. 'A new interpretation in one of the Anatolian languages can have consequences for dozens of other languages.'
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Ancient lexical borrowings between Sinitic and their northern neighbours
Lecture
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Extraction of linguistic atlas/dialect survey data
Lecture, Workshop Series
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Extra information faculties on OER
The faculties Humanities and Science have made a page with extra information on OER.
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SAILS researcher Anne Meuwese awarded PDI-SSH grant
The PDI-SSH grant will be used by Meuwese to create a web portal and collection of tools and resources, named ‘WetSuite’, that will help researchers apply Natural Language Processing (NLP) methods to legal textual data from public bodies.
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Teaming up with Portugal: as a doctor, how do you talk to a patient?
As a doctor, coming to a decision together with a patient: how do you do that in the best possible way? Researchers Geert Warnar and Roosmaryn Pilgram, who jointly teach a course within the MA in Dutch Studies, are entering into a virtual collaboration with the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa to find the…
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The Leiden-Birmingham lectures: Comparative Cross Modal Linguistics
Lecture, Workshop
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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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Lisa Cheng
Faculty of Humanities
l.l.cheng@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2104
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The American Indian Historical Society
Lecture, PCNI Research Seminar
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Speech Prosody 2024
Conference
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‘Citizens should be able to rely on information provided by Tax and Customs Administration’
Information provided by the Tax and Customs Administration is something that concerns every citizen. So it is not surprising that the Tax hotline receives around 10 million calls each year. The Benefits Affair emphasised the citizen’s perspective in communications with the Tax and Customs Administration.…
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Vici grants for seven researchers from Leiden University
From research on stellar winds to sign language: an impressive seven researchers from Leiden University will receive a prestigious Vici grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO).
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The first LDE Professional Training Landscape Biography: a Retrospect
The first professional training organised by the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Centre for Global Heritage and Development has finished. The participants work for municipalities, provinces, universities or are independent researchers or consultants in the Heritage Sector. During three intensive days in September…
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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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NWO Open Competition for replication research: 'Deals with fundamental question in my field'
Innovation through repetition. That is how university lecturer Jurriaan Witteman describes his research on the automatic processing of angry voices in the brain. The original research was conducted 20 years ago, but, with an NWO grant, Witteman is now going to see if those results are accurate.
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Lips pouted or not? How improved speaker recognition can help forensic investigations
Police investigations use wiretapped phone recordings as investigative material fairly regularly. But how do they know that the voice on the recording actually belongs to the suspect? PhD student Laura Smorenburg is trying to answer that question.
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CANCELLED | Historical Sociolinguistics Young Researchers Forum
Conference
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NWO Open Competition for research on inclusive religion and identity: 'Impact on LGBTQIA+ community still underexplored'
What is the impact of religion and its discourse on the lives of queer people in countries where LGBTQIA+ individuals are not accepted? University Lecturer Eduardo Alves Vieira wants to know just that. With an NWO-grant, he will take a closer look at the inclusive religion movement in Brazil.
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Neele Boelens: ‘I think it is important to get young people to vote’
Neele Boelens is a board member at DWARS, the youth organisation of political party GroenLinks. In addition, she is studying towards two degrees at Leiden University: Linguistics and Public Administration. A busy year, especially with the upcoming elections.
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SAILS Workshop: AI and LLMs: Keeping the Linguist in the Loop
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Models of linguistic diversity and Amazonian pre-history: a view from the Northwest Amazon
Lecture, Language & the Human Past Lecture Series