790 search results for “hebben language and linguistics” in the Staff website
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Aafje de Roest: ‘As an expert in Dutch Studies you have the right skills to research hip hop’
Aafje de Roest turned her hobby into her job. She went from a teenager who enjoyed listening to hip hop music to a PhD candidate who focuses on how Dutch hip hop music shapes the cultural identity of young people in the Netherlands.
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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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Leiden Linguistic Diversity Colloquium
Colloquium
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How did Proto-Indo-European reach Asia?
Five thousand years before the common era (BCE), Proto-Indo-European, the mother of many languages that are spoken today in Europe, Central Asia and South Asia, originated in eastern Europe. PhD candidate Axel Palmér has combined a 175-year-old hypothesis with new techniques to demonstrate how descendants…
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Summer full of summer schools at Humanities
This summer, the Faculty of Humanities is once again offering a wide range of summer schools for staff and students. From acting to Indian linguistics: there is something for everyone.
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What is citizenship? Classical Languages help find the answer
A European project should help reinvigorate Latin teaching in secondary schools. 'By focusing on citizenship, we want to show that Latin is relevant to discussions about citizenship and migration.'
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SAILS Workshop: AI and LLMs: Keeping the Linguist in the Loop
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Follow the Modern Greek Language Course in Athens
Education
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P.J. VethNonnensteeg 1-3, Leiden
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Bert BotmaFaculty of Humanities
e.d.botma@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2150
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Maarten van LeeuwenFaculty of Humanities
m.van.leeuwen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2073
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Longming ShichuanFaculty of Humanities
l.shichuan@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Jorge Duran SolorzanoFaculty of Humanities
j.f.duran.solorzano@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Charlotte van der VoortFaculty of Humanities
c.van.der.voort@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2125
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Yumeng WangScience
y.wang@liacs.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Pablo Isla MonsalveFaculty of Humanities
p.a.isla.monsalve@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2061
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Göran SundholmFaculty of Humanities
b.g.sundholm@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Tessa VerhoefScience
t.verhoef@liacs.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 7903
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Ying ZhangFaculty of Humanities
y.z.zhang.2@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 6006
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Olaf KaperFaculty of Humanities
o.e.kaper@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2041
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Peter BisschopFaculty of Humanities
p.c.bisschop@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2980
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Mert YazanScience
m.yazan@liacs.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Jiawen QIScience
j.qi@liacs.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Linguistic atlases, and dialect maps
Workshop Series
- International Mother Language Day 2024
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Summer filled with conferences in Leiden
It will be a summer filled with conferences at the Faculty of Humanities in Leiden. In the coming months, there will be something for everyone at the university, especially in the field of languages and cultures of Africa and the Middle East.
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From oscillations to language: behavioural and electroencephalographic studies on cross-language interactions
PhD defence
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Workshop: Other Forms of Understanding Language
Workshop-Poetry Lab
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The ongoing standardization of Sidaama, a Cushitic language of Ethiopia: challenges and perspectives
Lecture, This Time For Africa! series
- Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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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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Who spoke what language in north-western sixth-century China?
Fifteen hundred years ago, the north-west of what we now call China was a jumble of peoples. How did those Indians, Khotanese and Tocharians influence each other and each other's languages? Associate professor Michaël Peyrot has been awarded an ERC grant of almost two million euros to unravel this 'web…
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New language proficiency requirements for new PhD candidates (starting trajectory from 1 September 2024 onwards)
Research
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Camil Staps receives Rubicon grant: What does ‘that’ mean?
PhD student Camil Staps is continuing his academic career in Berlin. He receives a Rubicon grant to do research there on demonstrative pronouns.
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New professor Suzan Verberne aims to bring large language models and search engines closer together
Suzan Verberne has been appointed professor of Natural Language Processing at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS) from 1 October. Verberne has been at LIACS since 2017 as group leader of the Text Mining and Retrieval group.
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Student Aline-Priscillia: ‘I am an odd academic, I’m not very attached to outcomes’
In the new video series 'The World of Linguistics', alumni and academics talk about their passion for their field. Student Aline-Priscillia is particularly curious about how language is processed in the brain.
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Maria van der SchaarFaculty of Humanities
m.v.d.schaar@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2005
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Marianne van Dijken
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
m.j.van.dijken@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Marga Sikkema-de Jong
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
jongtm@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3881
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Gabe van Beijeren Bergen en HenegouwenFaculty of Humanities
g.g.van.beijeren.bergen.en.henegouwen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 6509
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Alisa van de HaarFaculty of Humanities
a.d.m.van.de.haar@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2179
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Carmen van den BerghFaculty of Humanities
c.van.den.bergh@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2067
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Models of linguistic diversity and Amazonian pre-history: a view from the Northwest Amazon
Lecture, Language & the Human Past Lecture Series
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A dead language comes to life: Early medieval Old English in the 21st century
From films, video games and historical novels to Nordic folk bands, Old English from the early Middle Ages is experiencing a revival in the 21st century. Together with international colleagues, university lecturer Thijs Porck (LUCAS) made a book about the 'resurrection' of this dead language.
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Johan Rooryck receives honorary doctorate from Tromsø University
Professor Johan Rooryck, currently executive director of cOAlition S, will receive an honorary doctorate from the University of Tromsø for his commitment to open access in science. He will be awarded the honorary doctorate on 1 September.
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The BIAS project attends the summer school on ‘Law and Language’ at Pavia University
Carlotta Rigotti, Postdoc researcher at eLaw, and Eduard Fosch-Villaronga, Associate Professor at eLaw, delivered a lecture on AI and non-discrimination, engaging students with the Debiaser demo.
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10 years of Georgian at Leiden University: Ramaz Kurdadze returns
This year marks a special occasion because it was just ten years ago that the Georgian language was taught for the first time at Leiden University. It is even more exciting that its first professor, Ramaz Kurdadze, will return to Leiden this year to teach students interested in the language. Kurdadze…
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An Introduction to the Arabic Language History and Origins
Alumni event, Lunch webinar
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this is how you create a dictionary for an unknown Middle Eastern language
Leiden scholars succeeded in making Arabic accessible to Western academic communities as early as the sixteenth century. But how did they approach this problem?
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Extraction of linguistic atlas/dialect survey data
Lecture, Workshop Series