1,773 search results for “africa language literature” in the Public website
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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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Innovation in tradition
This dissertation explores the history of the language of a manuscript known as Tönnies Fonne's Russian-German Phrasebook (Pskov 1607).
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Reading Arabic: legibility studies for the Arabic script
What is the cost of visual complexity? This dissertation sets out to determine the effect of the complexity of word formation on the legibility of Arabic and the role that vocalization plays in reading.
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Knowledge development of secondary school L1 teachers on concept-context rich education in an action-research setting
This thesis reports on a study that examined the development of L1 teachers’ practical knowledge when they researched and implemented concept-context rich education in an action-research setting.
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Martijn Lemmen
Faculty of Humanities
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Yumeng Wang
Science
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Arie Verhagen
Faculty of Humanities
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Hannah De Mulder
Faculty of Humanities
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Michaël Opgenhaffen
Faculty of Humanities
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Pablo Isla Monsalve
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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Göran Sundholm
Faculty of Humanities
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Stéphane Térosier
Faculty of Humanities
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Leticia Pablos Robles
Faculty of Humanities
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Janet Grijzenhout
Faculty of Humanities
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Mert Yazan
Science
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Ronny Boogaart
Faculty of Humanities
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Fei Bai
Faculty of Humanities
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Neeltje van den Bedem
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Tessa Verhoef
Science
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Get to know Roberta D'Alessandro and discover the architecture of language
How does language work and how do we learn a language? The more we know about language, the better we can understand how people interpret the world in words. Roberta D'Alessandro carries out research on the architecture of language. There is now a dossier about her work online.
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Call for Abstracts - Conference Language Learning Resource Centre, Leiden University, June 5th, 2020
The Language Learning Resource Centre (Leiden University) is organizing a one-day conference (June 5th, 2020) on the interplay between second language learning practice, theory, and research.
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The added value of multimedia to repeated story book reading in preschool age
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British Celtic Influence on English Phonology
This dissertation assesses the influence of British Celtic on the phonological development of English during and shortly after the Anglo-Saxon settlement period, ca. AD 450-700.
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Temporal Construals of Bare Predicates in Mandarin Chinese
This study presents the first systematic investigation and detailed theoretical analysis of the temporal interpretations of sentences with bare (aspectually unmarked) predicates in Mandarin.
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Thy Name is Deer. Animal Names in Semitic Onomastics and Name- Giving Traditions: Evidence from Akkadian, Northwest Semitic, and Arabic
Hekmat Dirbas defended his thesis on 14 February 2017
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Research programmes
LUCIS funded several research programmes to boost interfaculty and interdisciplinary cooperation and to widen the involvement of LUCIS members.
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Return of customary law often a let-down for local people
Traditional leaders in many African countries have regained some of their former powers. Politicians and companies in some of these countries manage to gain access to valuable land via these leaders, at the cost of the local population. This is the message of Professor of Law, Administration and Development…
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Important findings in plain language: Leiden University introduces lay talk
PhD ceremonies in the Academy Building will be much easier for family, friends and other non-specialist audience members to follow after the summer. The Doctorate Board is pleased to have decided that as of 1 September, all Leiden PhD candidates will begin their PhD defence with a lay talk. ‘It can…
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Ethnographies of Insurance
How do insurance products transform intimate and personal relations? What are the consequences of the classifications that insurance companies use and how do these affect solidarity, morality and inequality?
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John Ash and the Rise of the Children's Grammar
Making extensive use of primary source materials this study contributes to existing scholarship in the field of eighteenth-century grammars and grammarians by providing an in-depth study of Ash’s Grammatical Institutes and its influence on other popular grammars for children.
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The Phonology of Shaoxing Chinese
This thesis presents a thorough survey of the central aspects of the phonology of Shaoxing Chinese from a synchronic perspective and on the basis of recent theoretical phonological developments, with the secondary goal of casting some light on current issues in Modern Chinese (Mandarin).
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Transcultural Health Care Utilisation in Serengeti of Tanzania: Towards Applied Ethnoscience in Public Health Management
The research provides insight into disease behavior in both rural and semi-urban areas in Serengeti in Tanzania.
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Somaliland Rock Art- Laas Geel, Dhagah Kureh and Dhagah Nabi Gelay
Digitally Preserving Heritage at Risk
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Conversation with Dr Graça Machel: intergenerational justice from a human rights perspective
Almost three years after receiving her honorary doctorate, Dr Graça Machel returned to Leiden University. Over the course of two days she spoke with students, researchers, and other interested persons, about human rights – particularly those of women and children – in a world in which these are continually…
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African Studies (research) (MA)
The research master's in African Studies at Leiden University is unique in continental Europe for the interdisciplinary range of subjects offered and the long-term fieldwork in Africa.
- Leiden Lectures on Arabic Language and Culture
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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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Networks and cooperations
Both on a personal and institutional level, the staff of Leiden CADS collaborates with:
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Ironies of Solidarity
Ironies of Solidarity is an ethnographic study of how financial products and services affect inequalities and conflicts in South Africa.
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Research
CompaRe aims to conduct and stimulate research on comparative regional integration in Europa, Asia, Africa and Latin-America. To this end, CompaRe organizes conferences and workshops, and CompaRe members contribute to conferences, research papers, publications and reports on comparative regional…
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Netherlands Institute Morocco (NIMAR)
NIMAR is the Netherlands expertise centre for Moroccan Studies. Starting 2016, NIMAR is a part of the Faculty of Humanities of Leiden University. NIMAR organises lectures, facilitates research and actively adds to the knowledge of Moroccan languages, cultures and society in The Netherlands.
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Cushitic influence on Bantu in East Africa
Lecture, Descriptive Linguistics Seminars
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Study programme
In the African Studies BA programme you will obtain in-depth knowledge about Africa and the specific theme of your choice. At the same time, you will develop valuable academic and digital competences, as well as personal skills.
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The Postal Imagination: Returning Mail in Contemporary Culture
How to understand the simultaneously dis- and reappearance of letters in contemporary culture, and how does this Neo-Epistolarity relate to media-technological change?
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The globalisation of language in popular music lyrics: A critical approach.
On 7 March, Carlos Roos (lecturer, philosopher, researcher) gave a talk about popular music at Utrecht University, organized by the education committee of Study Association Hucbald (Musicology at Utrecht University).