2,210 search results for “austronesian languages and linguistics” in the Public website
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The prehistoric origin and spread of the Indo-Iranian languages
A linguistic test of hypotheses rooted in genetics and archaeology.
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Khalid Mourigh
Faculty of Humanities
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Alignment in Eastern Neo-Aramaic Languages from a Typological Perspective
On October 31st, Paul Noorlander succesfully defended his doctoral thesis and graduated. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Paul on this great result.
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Multidisciplinary Approaches to Bilingualism in the Hispanic and Lusophone World
This volume offers a multidisciplinary view of cutting-edge research on bilingualism in Spanish and Portuguese-speaking regions, with the aim of building a bridge between sub-fields and approaches that often find themselves isolated from one another.
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Marijn van Putten
Faculty of Humanities
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The Performative Force of Accented Speech: Language, Body, and Violence
This research examines the social, political, and cultural forces that structure people’s responses towards accented speech, and further uses the accent as a focal point to theorize the interrelation between language and body.
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‘Kindersprache, Aphasie und allgemeine Lautgesetze’ revisited
The current project aims to revive the idea that sound inventories are structured according to a small set of universal principles by applying insights from current phonological theory and by making use of modern database technologies and data assessing methodologies.
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Dutch Language Courses
The Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo offers Dutch language courses for Egyptian adults on a regular basis. These courses aim to provide students with language skills in Dutch, which they can use in everyday life. Therefore you will spend most of your time practicing the language in order to…
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Stylistics of Dutch
The purpose of this programme is to join knowledge and insights from linguistics, literary analysis, and rhetoric, for the purpose of developing a set of methods for the stylistic investigation of any type of text in Dutch.
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Martijn Lemmen
Faculty of Humanities
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Arie Verhagen
Faculty of Humanities
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Maarten Kossmann
Faculty of Humanities
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Michaël Opgenhaffen
Faculty of Humanities
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Amos van Baalen
Faculty of Humanities
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Michaël Peyrot
Faculty of Humanities
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Janet Grijzenhout
Faculty of Humanities
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Alumni blog
Interested in studying Modern Languages at Leiden University? Find out what our alumni said about this master's programme.
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Cortical contributions to cognitive control of language and beyond
On the 12th of October, Fatemeh Tabassi Mofrad successfully defended a doctoral thesis. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Fatemeh on this achievement!
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Chengqi Yu
Faculty of Humanities
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Teresa Proto
Faculty of Humanities
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Learning Russian as a second language through allusive (precedential) phrases: corpus-based study
When literature, cultural aspects, and data-driven language learning meet in a classroom.
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Cattle-talk: the language of colour among East African pastoralists
What categories exist in the languages of pastoralists? Do these semantic concepts reflect universal or languagespecific tendencies? What (environment? culture?) governs the similarities (or the differences) attested crosslinguistically in cattle colour systems?
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Natasja Delbar
Faculty of Humanities
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Carmen Kleinherenbrink
Faculty of Humanities
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A Grammar of Ghomara Berber
This dissertation provides a grammatical description of Ghomara Berber, a Berber language spoken in North-West Morocco by about 10.000 people. The grammar consists of a description of the phonology, the morphology and the syntax. In the appendices a number of texts and a wordlist are included. The data…
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Alwin Kloekhorst
Faculty of Humanities
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Guus Kroonen
Faculty of Humanities
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English Language and Culture (BA)
From Great-Britain to the United States and from Australia to South Africa: people around the whole world speak and write English. In Leiden you will broaden your knowledge of the English language and the rich Literature and culture of the global English world on academic level.
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Custom-made language training
The form and content of the course are determined by your answers on the intake form and, if necessary, an intake interview.
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The Syntax of Object Marking in Sambaa: A comparative Bantu perspective
This thesis investigates the syntax of object marking in Sambaa and the Bantu languages in general, with particular focus on Swahili and Haya, as points of comparison.
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Greek-Dutch dictionary project
Lexicographical description of Greek; production of Greek-Dutch dictionary
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Harry Stroomer
Faculty of Humanities
- Language Policy and Practices Series
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Word order and information structure in Makhuwa-Enahara
This dissertation investigates the grammar of Makhuwa-Enahara, a Bantu language spoken in the north of Mozambique. The information structure is an influential factor in this language, determining the word order and the use of special conjugations known as conjoint and disjoint verb forms.
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About GTGC: In Other Languages
Interested in our GTGC programme? Read more here in other languages.
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Hello, who is this? The relationship between linguistic and speaker- dependent information in the acoustics of consonants
On the 28th of June, Laura Smorenburg successfully defended a doctoral thesis. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Laura on this achievement!
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- Language and Culture Education: Dutch
- Language and Culture Education: French
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From Gothic to OMG: the 21st conference on English historical linguistics comes to Leiden
The largest international conference on English historical linguistics is coming to Leiden. From 7 June to 11 June 2021, the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL) organises the International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL-21). Due to Covid measures, the conference takes…
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Olga Lundysheva
Faculty of Humanities
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Tina Cambier-Langeveld
Faculty of Humanities
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Matthijs Westera
Faculty of Humanities
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Martin Kroon
Faculty of Humanities
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Matthew Sung
Faculty of Humanities
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Liko Phonology and Grammar. A Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
This thesis presents a detailed description of the phonology, the tone system and the grammar of Liko, a Bantu language spoken by about 70,000 people in the northeastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It provides numerous examples.
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Sasha Lubotsky
Faculty of Humanities
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Rik van Gijn
Faculty of Humanities