1,239 search results for “leiden amerika language” in the Public website
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Enrico OdelliFaculty of Humanities
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I-Fan LinScience
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Liza van den BoschFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Manfred HorstmanshoffFaculty of Humanities
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Jiaqi WangFaculty of Humanities
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Saskia DunnFaculty of Humanities
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Suzan VerberneScience
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Anouschka van DijkFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Tian YangFaculty of Humanities
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Paul van ElsFaculty of Humanities
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Marc BuijnstersFaculty of Humanities
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Victoria NystFaculty of Humanities
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Simone DobbelaarFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Linda van Leijenhorst
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Nikki NibberingFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Chris VerhoevenFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Robert-jan de Rooij
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Janna Marie Bas-HoogendamFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Aleksandrina SkvortsovaFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Juan Claramunt GonzalezFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Judith SchomakerFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Operators in the lexicon. On the negative logic of natural language
Operators in the Lexicon opens with an old chestnut: why are there no natural single word lexicalizations for negations of the propositional operator and and the predicate calculus operator all: why neither *nand nor *nall?
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Hodegetics: Language of Vice in Student Advice Literature, 1700-1900
This project analyzes to what extent hodegetical textbooks relied on each other in warning their readers against vicious habits, how much continuity their catalogs of vice displayed, and to what extent vices that persisted throughout the 18th and 19th centuries were associated with easy-to-remember…
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The Dark Middle Ages: Language of Vice in Histories of Science, 1700-1900
In comparing a selection of 18th-century histories to a representative sample of 19th-century histories of science, this project inquires: Which early modern vices persisted into the 19th century and to what extent were those vices embodied in anecdotes, conveyed through commonplaces, or symbolically…
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Arabic and Aramaic in Iraq: Language and Syriac Christian Commitment to the Arab Nationalist Project (1920-1950)
Tijmen Baarda defended his PhD thesis on 8 January 2020
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Causative-GIVE in LSF (French Sign Language): a case of cross-linguistically non-uniform grammaticalization
Lecture
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How Arabic influenced Berber, and the typology of contact-induced change
This project investigates the influence that Arabic (esp. dialectal Arabic) has had on the Berber languages of Northern Africa.
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Fokelien KootstraFaculty of Humanities
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Ingrid Tieken-Boon van OstadeFaculty of Humanities
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I-Hsien LinFaculty of Humanities
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Nancy KulaFaculty of Humanities
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‘Language is part of your identity’
Language is omnipresent: when you talk, app or meet in Teams. Understanding how we communicate with one another and what communication does to us is essential. In her inaugural lecture, Nivja de Jong will call to redress the balance between the sciences and the humanities.
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Learning a language is a staggering task
To properly understand how babies absorb a language we need to study the process from a number of different perspectives, linguist Claartje Levelt argues. She accepts her appointment as Professor of Language Acquisition on 27 March with an inaugural lecture entitled ‘Language in its infancy’.
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Jenny Doetjes appointed Professor of Semantics and Language Variation
Dr Jenny Doetjes was appointed Professor of Semantics and Language Variation in February. During her professorship Dr. Doetjes wishes to focus on charting linguistic patterns between languages that, at first glance, seem to have little to do with each other.
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Antiquities of the rainforest: evolution of mycoheterotrophic angiosperms growing on Glomeromycota
Promotor: Prof.dr. E.F. Smets, Co-promotor: Dr. V.S.F.T. Merckx
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The academic staff of the Leiden University Institute for History.
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Janet ConnorFaculty of Humanities
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Gijsbert RuttenFaculty of Humanities
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Alwin KloekhorstFaculty of Humanities
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Martine BruilFaculty of Humanities
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Speakers store abstract information, irrespective of their language
The human brain stores not only individual words, but also all kinds of abstract information about these words. Research by Leiden linguists has shown that speakers have ready access to this information.
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Contact in the Prehistory of the Sakha (Yakuts): Linguistic and Genetic Perspectives
This study analyses the prehistory of a northeastern Siberian population, the Sakha, from both a molecular-genetic and a linguistic perspective.
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First grammar of Hamar reveals unique language system
Linguist Sara Petrollino has written the first detailed grammar of Hamar, a language spoken in south-west Ethiopia that has some unique characteristics. PhD defence 10 November.
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Interpreting particles in dead and living languages: A construction grammar approach to the semantics of Dutch ergens and Ancient Greek pou
In this dissertation, the types of context Dutch speakers need to interpret the poly-interpretable word ergens ‘somewhere/anywhere’ are studied.
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In Search of a Lost Language: Performing in Early-Recorded Style in Viola and String Quartet Repertoires
How might viola and string quartet playing in the performer-centered, moment-to-moment and communicative style heard on early recordings be brought about today?
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Language loosens tongues
Language research generates a wealth of information about people: from our history and cultural differences to the way we learn. Leiden University shares its knowledge and passion for this topic via de MOOC on ‘Miracles of Human Languages’ and the web dossier on Language Diversity.
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Poems in sign language
Will Leiden be the first city to have wall poems in sign language? It will, if sign language researcher Victoria Nyst has her way. She recently started a crowdfunding campaign together with the Leiden Language Museum and the TEGEN-BEELD Foundation.
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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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Vici for Victoria Nyst: 'The history of sign language contributes to identity formation'
Victoria Nyst's love for sign language was sparked when she accidentally ended up at a deaf school while studying African linguistics. The university lecturer has since been awarded a Vici grant to research the history of these languages.