1,468 search results for “classical languages” in the Public website
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Benjamin Suchard
Faculty of Humanities
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Arnout Koornneef
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Martine Bruil
Faculty of Humanities
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Ben Arps
Faculty of Humanities
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Yinzhi Zhang
Faculty 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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Clause-typing and evidentiality in Ecuadorian Siona
This dissertation presents an in-depth study of the clause-typing system in Ecuadorian Siona.
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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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Wilt Idema
Faculty of Humanities
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Paul van Els
Faculty of Humanities
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Marc Buijnsters
Faculty of Humanities
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Arend Quak
Faculty of Humanities
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Berry Dongelmans
Faculty of Humanities
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Enrico Odelli
Faculty of Humanities
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Tian Yang
Faculty of Humanities
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I-Fan Lin
Science
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Liza van den Bosch
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Jiaqi Wang
Faculty of Humanities
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Saskia Dunn
Faculty of Humanities
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Suzan Verberne
Science
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Anouschka van Dijk
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Specters of Cavafy
Haunting the future through poetry
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Leiden Classics: Bibliotheca Thysiana, a 17th century time machine
From once controversial scientific works and historical bibles, to personal shopping lists and clothing bills. The 17th-century Bibliotheca Thysiana and the archive of the collector Johannes Thysius exhibit both the intellectual and everyday life as it was three hundred years ago. Now a brand-new digital…
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Leiden Classics: Humbert de Superville, founder of the Print Room
Dutch artist and visionary David Humbert de Superville (1770-1849) was the founder and first director of the Print Room at Leiden University. An exhibition and symposium are now being organised in his honour. What makes him so remarkable?
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I-Hsien Lin
Faculty of Humanities
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Fokelien Kootstra
Faculty of Humanities
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Kate Bellamy
Faculty of Humanities
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Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade
Faculty of Humanities
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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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Safe anytime-valid inference: from theory to implementation in psychiatry research
Classical statistical methods, such as p-values, are difficult for researchers to apply correctly. They for example do not allow drawing conclusions from a study early, or for extending a study with extra research groups that want to make their data available later.
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Leiden Classics: On the origins of the Hortus Botanicus
The Leiden Hortus Botanicus is the oldest botanical garden in the Netherlands. Although perfect for a ramble, it is much more than an open air museum. PhD students carry out their research here and the Hortus makes a serious contribution to biodiversity through the exchange of rare seeds with other…
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Collections
The new Middle Eastern Library (MEL) will bring together the UBL's own Middle Eastern collections and the collections of the library of The Netherlands Institute for the Near East (NINO), which has been part of the Leiden University Libraries since 1st January 2018.
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Imagining the Arabs
Arab Identity and the Rise of Islam
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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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Gijsbert Rutten
Faculty of Humanities
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Janet Connor
Faculty of Humanities
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Leiden Classics: 5 questions on the origin of university democracy
The late 1960s: across Europe, students are demanding the right to more participation within their universities. In 1971 Leiden University was granted an elected University Council. It became quite powerful: the Council even had the right to dismiss the Chairman of the Board.
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Leiden Classics: Leiden University’s first women students
It was not until 1878 that the first female students enrolled at Leiden University, but the discussion on whether women were suited to study was by no means over. 8 March is International Women's Day. BBC correspondente Kim Ghattas will deliver a lecture on 6 March on the struggle by Arabic women for…
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Leiden Classics: The paradox of student association Minerva
Minerva, which calls itself the oldest student association of the Netherlands, has the reputation of being an impenetrable bastion. A lustrum exhibition shows the turbulent history and points to a diversity of contacts: from close bonds with Leiden ‘coffee ladies’ to the visit of Sir Winston Churchi…
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Leiden Classics: Rembrandt's traces at Leiden University
Rembrandt van Rijn was enrolled as a student of the arts at Leiden University, but he was more interested in becoming a painter. What traces now remain of this famous phantom student?
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Leiden Classics: 5 questions about our motto Praesidium Libertatis
Our motto is Praesidium Libertatis, or ‘bastion of liberty’. How did it come into existence, and in what way is Leiden University staying true to its meaning? Five questions about our motto.
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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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The Figure of Abraham in the Metrical Homilies of Jacob of Sarug: Its Literary and Theological Context
This project is a close and sensitive contextual study of Jacob of Sarug's (ca. 451-521 AD) metrical homily
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Common Dwelling Place of all the Gods
Commagene in its Local, Regional and Global Hellenistic Context