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• Language gets people talking News - 8 May 2015

  Studying languages enables you to unearth a lot of valuable information about humans: it reveals our history and explains cultural differences and it even illustrates the process of learning new information. The University is sharing its knowledge of and passion for languages in various new ways, including…

• Pardon my French? Dutch-French Language Contact in The Netherlands, 1500-1900 Research project

  The main aim of this project is to provide a full analysis of the actual influence of French on Dutch in The Netherlands during the period of 1500 - 1900.

• A Grammar of Gaahmg, a Nilo-Saharan Language of Sudan Research output

  This thesis investigates the grammar of Gaahmg, a Nilo-Saharan, Eastern Sudanic language spoken in the Blue Nile Province of North Sudan. The comprehensive description provides an analysis of the phonology, morphology, and syntax. Ten texts of various genre are given to help illustrated the grammar…

• A Sociolinguistic Study of an Ewe-based Youth Language of Aflao, Ghana Research output

  On the 26th of September, Cosmas Rai Amenorvi successfully defended a doctoral thesis. Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Cosmas on this achievement!

• Walikan Malangan: Structure and development of a Javanese reversed language Research output

  On the 24th of October, Nurenzia Yannuar successfully defended her doctoral thesis and graduated. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Nurenzia on this achievement.

• Dynamic Testing and the Relation with School performance and Language difficulties. Research project

  What is the effect of a dynamic training in children’s inductive reasoning skills and how is it related to children’s school performances and language development.

• Pride and Prejudice: Moral Languages in Scholarly Codes of Conduct, 1900-2000 Research project

  If idioms employed in codes of conduct could be as idiosyncratic as examples suggest, then to what extent did early modern language of vice, too, persist in this genre?

• psychosocial development of children with and without Developmental Language Disorder Research output

  Dissertation

• Falling Short of Expectations: Evaluative Languages in Scholarly Book Reviews, 1900-2000 Research project

  What evaluative languages (errors, mistakes, vices, etc.) did book reviewers employ? To what extent and on what occasions did they invoke early modern vices? And to what extent did this differ across fields or change over the course of the century?

• What is shared and what is unique in language and music Research project

  Knowledge and culture subproject 1:

• Traces of language contact in Niya Prakrit: Bactrian and other foreign elements Research output

  On the 6th of November, Niels Schoubben successfully defended a doctoral thesis. Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Niels on this achievement!

• Object shift in the Scandinavian languages: syntax, information structure, and intonation Research output

  This thesis discusses the constructions relevant to Object Shift from the intonational perspective, by presenting experimental data from all the Scandinavian languages.

• Essays on African languages and linguistics : in honour of Maarten Mous Research output

  This book celebrates Maarten Mous, professor of African Linguistics at Leiden University.

• The empathic mind in children and adolescents with Specific Language Impairments (SLI) Research project

  The ‘empathic mind’ in children with Specific Language Impairments (SLI); what can children with SLI understand of other people’s minds and emotions?

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  Jesse Wichers Schreur Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Eduardo Alves Vieira University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Thijs Porck Associate professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• Languages of Resistance, Transformation, and Futurity in Mediterranean Crisis-Scapes Research output

  From Crisis to Critique

• Understanding the brain via language News - 23 January 2018

  Professor Jenny Doetjes at Leiden University researches similarities and differences in languages, specifically in the area of numerals and quantifiers. Her research provides insight into language patterns, bu also in the working of the human brain. Inaugural lecture on 26 January.

• Language that comforts: The power of communication in healthcare News - 13 November 2024

  For people who are seriously ill, an empathetic doctor can make a world of difference. Psychologist Janine Westendorp examined helpful and harmful communication in the consulting room. ‘It’s very important to stress that you are always there supporting the person, even if there’s no cure.’

• signers in the development of channel specific structures in sign languages of deaf communities HANDS!Lab for Sign Languages and Deaf Studies

  In this project, the hypothesis that language contact crucially impacts the development of spatial grammar and phonology is investigated.

• Lazy Mindreader: a new perspective on “mindreading” from the study of language and narrative Research project

  How is social cognition shaped by our knowledge of language and stories?

• The Golden Mean of Languages; Forging Dutch and French in the Early Modern Low Countries (1540-1620) Research output

  In The Golden Mean of Languages, Alisa van de Haar sheds new light on the debates regarding the form and status of the vernacular in the early modern Low Countries, where both Dutch and French were local tongues. The fascination with the history, grammar, spelling, and vocabulary of Dutch and French…

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  Azeb Amha Lecturer

  Afrika-Studiecentrum

• Haunted Europe. Continental Connections in English-Language Gothic Writing, Film and New Media Research output

  Haunted Europe offers a comprehensive account of the British and Irish fascination with a Gothic vision of continental Europe, tracing its effect on British intellectual life from the birth of the Gothic novel, to the eve of Brexit, and the symbolic recalibration of the UK’s relationship to mainland…

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  Willemijn Heeren Senior University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  M. Y. Priscilla Lam PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Arnout Koornneef Assistant Professor

  Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen

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  Yinzhi Zhang Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Benjamin Suchard Guest researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Carmen Kleinherenbrink Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Ben Arps Professor Indonesian and Javanese Language and Culture

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Aleksandra Uttenweiler PhD candidate / self funded

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Natasja Delbar PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

• Speaking the same language: the introduction of the Anglo-American trust into the Dutch legal system Research output

  On 5 October, Katherine Filesia defended the thesis 'Speaking the same language: the introduction of the Anglo-American trust into the Dutch legal system'. The doctoral research was supervised by Pim Huijgen and Frans Sonneveldt.

• of Bantawa: Grammar, paradigm tables, glossary and texts of a Rai language of Eastern Nepal Research output

  This dissertation provides a comprehensive overview of the grammar of Bantawa, a Kiranti (Rai) language spoken in Eastern Nepal.

• Babies' hearing important in language deficiency News - 19 March 2018

  During the first year of life, babies adapt to the language they hear around them. In the event of hearing difficulties, this can lead to a language deficiency, which is not so easy to resolve, says Professor of English Linguistics Janet Grijzenhout. Inaugural lecture 19 March.

• Clause linkage in Ket Research output

  This work provides a typologically oriented description of clause linkage strategies in Ket, a highly endangered language spoken in Central Siberia. It is now the only surviving member of the Yeniseian language family with the last remaining speakers residing in the north of Russia’s Krasnoyarsk pro…

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  Wilt Idema Emeritus Professor of Chinese Literature

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Arend Quak Professor emeritus of Germanic and Historical Linguistics

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Berry Dongelmans Guest

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Enrico Odelli Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  I-Fan Lin PhD candidate

  Science

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  Liza van den Bosch Assistant professor

  Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen

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  Manfred Horstmanshoff Professor Emeritus History of medicine

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Suzan Verberne Professor Computer Science

  Science

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  Anouschka van Dijk PhD candidate

  Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen

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  Paul van Els University Lecturer Chinese Studies

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Marc Buijnsters Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Victoria Nyst Senior University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities