780 search results for “programming language” in the Public website
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Understanding the brain via language
Professor Jenny Doetjes at Leiden University researches similarities and differences in languages, specifically in the area of numerals and quantifiers. Her research provides insight into language patterns, bu also in the working of the human brain. Inaugural lecture on 26 January.
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signers in the development of channel specific structures in sign languages of deaf communities
In this project, the hypothesis that language contact crucially impacts the development of spatial grammar and phonology is investigated.
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Jesse Wichers Schreur
Faculty of Humanities
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Thijs Porck
Faculty of Humanities
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Victoria Nyst
Faculty of Humanities
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Eduardo Alves Vieira
Faculty of Humanities
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Lazy Mindreader: a new perspective on “mindreading” from the study of language and narrative
How is social cognition shaped by our knowledge of language and stories?
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The Golden Mean of Languages; Forging Dutch and French in the Early Modern Low Countries (1540-1620)
In The Golden Mean of Languages, Alisa van de Haar sheds new light on the debates regarding the form and status of the vernacular in the early modern Low Countries, where both Dutch and French were local tongues. The fascination with the history, grammar, spelling, and vocabulary of Dutch and French…
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Haunted Europe. Continental Connections in English-Language Gothic Writing, Film and New Media
Haunted Europe offers a comprehensive account of the British and Irish fascination with a Gothic vision of continental Europe, tracing its effect on British intellectual life from the birth of the Gothic novel, to the eve of Brexit, and the symbolic recalibration of the UK’s relationship to mainland…
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Azeb Amha
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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of Bantawa: Grammar, paradigm tables, glossary and texts of a Rai language of Eastern Nepal
This dissertation provides a comprehensive overview of the grammar of Bantawa, a Kiranti (Rai) language spoken in Eastern Nepal.
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Willemijn Heeren
Faculty of Humanities
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Natasja Delbar
Faculty of Humanities
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M. Y. Priscilla Lam
Faculty of Humanities
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Ola Uttenweiler
Faculty of Humanities
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Carmen Kleinherenbrink
Faculty of Humanities
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Benjamin Suchard
Faculty of Humanities
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Arnout Koornneef
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Ben Arps
Faculty of Humanities
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Yinzhi Zhang
Faculty of Humanities
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Babies' hearing important in language deficiency
During the first year of life, babies adapt to the language they hear around them. In the event of hearing difficulties, this can lead to a language deficiency, which is not so easy to resolve, says Professor of English Linguistics Janet Grijzenhout. Inaugural lecture 19 March.
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Clause linkage in Ket
This work provides a typologically oriented description of clause linkage strategies in Ket, a highly endangered language spoken in Central Siberia. It is now the only surviving member of the Yeniseian language family with the last remaining speakers residing in the north of Russia’s Krasnoyarsk pro…
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Language as a time machine
About 90 per cent of Austronesian and Papuan languages are under threat of soon becoming extinct. Marian Klamer is the only professor in the world who researches both these language groups. She records languages before they disappear and sheds new light on the history of Indonesia. Inaugural lecture…
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Baoxiao Liu
Science
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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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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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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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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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I-Fan Lin
Science
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Liza van den Bosch
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Manfred Horstmanshoff
Faculty of Humanities
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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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Tian Yang
Faculty of Humanities
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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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Basic program 2022-2023 online
The basic program for 2022-2023 has recently been published online. The program of the Research School has been expanded with a number of important basic courses.
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ICLON research program reviewed as 'very good'
Last year the research program Teaching and Teacher Learning of ICLON Leiden University Graduate School of Teaching had its recurrent external review.
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LECTIO Visiting program 2023-2024
LECTIO, the KU Leuven Institute for the Study and Transmission of Texts, Ideas and Images in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, invites applications for its Visiting Program 2023-2024. Deadline for submissions: May 31.
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I-Hsien Lin
Faculty of Humanities
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Fokelien Kootstra
Faculty of Humanities
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Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade
Faculty of Humanities
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Martine Bruil
Faculty of Humanities