411 search results for “african linguistics” in the Staff website
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What does it actually say? Linguist launches video series on wall poems
The city centre of Leiden is covered in them: wall poems. When roaming around, you come across poetry written in the Latin alphabet, but also in scripts that might be more difficult to understand for the average person living in Leiden. In a new series of videos, Tijmen Pronk talks more about this.
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Carmen Sylvia Spiers
Faculty of Humanities
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Tim Laméris
Faculty of Humanities
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Leonid Kulikov
Faculty of Humanities
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Jos Schaeken
Faculty of Humanities
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Mahmood Yenkimaleki
Faculty of Humanities
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Marijke van der Wal
Faculty of Humanities
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Camil Staps
Faculty of Humanities
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Emi Yamamoto
Faculty of Humanities
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Sarah von Grebmer zu Wolfsthurn
Faculty of Humanities
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Misha Plagis
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Corinna Jentzsch
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Rishuai Chen
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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Jan-Bart Gewald
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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Harry Wels
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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John Kegel
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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Meike de Boer: ‘The word 'uh' can help track down suspects’
In the new video series 'The World of Linguistics', alumni and researchers talk about their passion for their field. PhD candidate Meike de Boer knows everything about the word ‘uh’.
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Talent for languages test: National Linguistics Olympiad puts language sense to the test for high school students
How would you convert Egyptian hieroglyphs into Latin script? And what is actually the correct translation of dishes on a Vietnamese menu? On Saturday 28 January, high school students from all over the Netherlands will come to Leiden to ponder a series of language-related puzzles. Their goal? To win…
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Alex Reuneker awarded Frans van Eemeren prize
University lecturer Alex Reuneker has won the Frans van Eemeren Prize for his paper 'Assessing classification reliability of conditionals in discourse'.
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Rijk van Dijk
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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PhD candidate Alex Reuneker’s research: What do we mean when we use ‘if’?
‘If it rains later, then I’ll take the car.’ In order to reason, we use sentences containing ‘if’ every single day. But how does that work exactly in the Dutch language? Alex Reuneker wrote his 628 page dissertation on the subject. Ceremony on 26 January.
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Axel Palmér
Faculty of Humanities
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Social media
Social media is a good way to meet others or to hear about the latest news and developments. It is an excellent way to tell people about what you are doing and to hear what they are up to too. But social media also has its downsides: disinformation, trolling, disrespectful comments and even the misuse…
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Maria del Carmen Parafita Couto: ‘I have to speak to my cats in Galician’
In the new video series 'The World of Linguistics', alumni and researchers talk about their passion for their field. University lecturer Maria Del Carmen Parafita Couto speaks about bilingualism.
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Opposing the French participle clause
The Dutch phrase ‘ijs en weder dienende’ (literally, ‘ice and weather serving’) is a good example of what is known as a participle clause and is perhaps one of the most unfathomable grammatical constructions in Dutch. For what (or who) is serving whom (or what)? It actually means ‘ice and weather permitting’.…
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Christine Mertens
Faculty of Humanities
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Multilingualism of Frisian children: Evelyn Bosma wins Keetje Hodshon Prize
Postdoc and linguist Evelyn Bosma receives the Keetje Hodshon Prize for her dissertation. For her research on the multilingualism of Frisian children, Bosma previously won the Klokhuis Science Prize and the Campus Fryslân Science Prize.
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Natasja Delbar
Faculty of Humanities
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Alina Karakanta
Faculty of Humanities
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Henrike Jansen
Faculty of Humanities
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Hannah De Mulder
Faculty of Humanities
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Carmen Kleinherenbrink
Faculty of Humanities
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Leticia Pablos Robles
Faculty of Humanities
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Dunja Wackers
Science
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S. Valdez
Faculty of Humanities
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Lettie Dorst
Faculty of Humanities
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Keiko Yoshioka
Faculty of Humanities
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Afro Mix intermediate/advanced
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Afro Mix beginners/intermediate
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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‘Stemmen van Afrika’ wins popularisation prize: 'Language is more than grammar'
The Voices of Africa platform is ten years old and has just recently won the annual popularisation prize of the Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics (LOT). High time for a chat with Jenneke van der Wal, Maarten Mous and Nina van der Vlugt about the importance of the platform and plans for the…
- Chinese Linguistics in Leiden (ChiLL)
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Linguistic atlases, and dialect maps
Workshop Series
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Oran Kennedy
Faculty of Humanities
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Adam Fairclough
Faculty of Humanities
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Geeske Langejans
Faculteit Archeologie
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Bert Botma
Faculty of Humanities
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Brenda Assendelft
Faculty of Humanities
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Maarten van Leeuwen
Faculty of Humanities
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Johanneke Caspers
Faculty of Humanities
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Charlotte van der Voort
Faculty of Humanities