2,206 search results for “austronesian languages and linguistics” in the Public website
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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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Descriptive and Comparative Linguistics
The research programme Descriptive and Comparative Linguistics brings together LUCL researchers who focus mainly on descriptive and comparative linguistics.
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The Non-Verbal Clause in Qumran Hebrew
The present study comprises a classification and analysis of the syntax of the non-verbal clause in Qumran Hebrew, i.e. the linguistic variety (or varieties) found in the so-called Dead Sea Scrolls. The corpus consists of the non-biblical texts written in Hebrew; biblical texts and texts written in…
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Egbert Fortuin appointed professor of Russian Language and Linguistics: 'I am back'
On 1 August, Egbert Fortuin has been appointed Professor of Russian Language and Linguistics. After a five-year term as vice-dean of the Faculty Board, he is eager to fully devote himself to the study programme. His appointment can therefore be summarised in three words: 'I am back'.
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Atalialu Serapheim and the Turkophone Orthodox Christians of Anatolia: A study of eighteenth-century Turkish texts in the Greek alphabet (Karamanlidika)
Stylianos Irakleous defended his thesis on 6 February 2020
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Ying-ting Wang
Faculty of Humanities
y.wang@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2520
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Mutual intelligibility of Chinese dialects: an experimental approach
This study examines the mutual intelligibility between all 225 pairs of 15 Chinese dialects, in two main branches, i.e., six Mandarin dialects and nine non-Mandarin (Southern) dialects.
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The linguistic past of Mesoamerica and the Andes: a search for early migratory relations between North and South America
The aim of the project is to unravel the genetic and contact relations between the indigenous languages of Mesoamerica (Mexico and western Central America) and the Middle Andes region (Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia), as part of a larger endeavor to understand the historical process of the peopling of the Americas…
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The Slovene dialect of Egg and Potschach in the Gailtal, Austria
A synchronic description of the endangered Slovene dialect spoken in the Gailtal valley in Carinthia, Austria.
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Modification and Reference in the Chinese Nominal
This study proposes a theory for the encoding of specificity and definiteness in the Chinese nominal based on Cantonese, Mandarin and Wenzhou data.
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Variation and change in Abui: The impact of Alor Malay on an indigenous language of Indonesia
On the 23rd of September, George Saad successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates George on this achievement!
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Heritage Linguistics Lab
Platform for research about heritage languages spoken in the Netherlands
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Taalportaal (Language Portal)
This proposal aims at the construction of a comprehensive and authoritative scientific grammar for Dutch and Frisian in the form of a virtual language institute: het Taalportaal/the Language Portal.
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Keiko Yoshioka
Faculty of Humanities
k.yoshioka@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2553
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Languages of The Hague
Languages of The Hague is a collection of columns on languages and language which were published between 2016 and 2018 in the weekly newspaper Den Haag Centraal.
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Contributions to Chibchan Historical Linguistics
On December 5th, Matthias Pache succesfully defended his doctoral thesis and graduated. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Matthias on this great result.
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Language documentation Ecuador
Collaborative linguistic research on indigenous languages of Ecuador: description, documentation & materials
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Bert van den Berg
Faculty of Humanities
r.m.van.den.berg@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2680
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Speech intelligibility problems of Sudanese learners of English. An experimental approach
This dissertation aims at discussing the nature and the linguistic factors assumed responsible for speech intelligibility problems of Sudanese learners of English.
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Arabic and its alternatives: Religious minorities in the formative years of the modern Middle East (1920-1950)
This project aims to revisit the ways in which religious minorities in the Middle East participated in, contributed to, and opposed the Arab nationalism of the post-war years, when the British and French ruled the region via the Mandates. Research question: How did religious minorities in the Middle…
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Lecturer African Linguistics
Humanities, Centre for Linguistics
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Educational materials Naduhup languages
The goal is to develop educational materials for Dâw, Hupd’äh, and Nadëb Indigenous peoples (Naduhup family; Middle and Upper Rio Negro; Brazilian Amazon). In order to achieve this, first of all, the fieldwork data collected during a collaborative project among anthropologists and linguists (2017-2020)…
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Formal Theoretical and Experimental Linguistics
The research programme Formal Theoretical and Experimental Linguistics brings together LUCL researchers who focus mainly on formal theoretical and experimental linguistics.
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From Gesture to Language
Like any language, the natural sign languages (henceforth: SLs) of deaf communities differ from each other in their grammars and lexicons. A growing number of studies indicates that SLs make use of the gestures of hearing speakers to build linguistic structure. This implies that variation and similarities…
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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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The Phonology of Shaoxing Chinese
This thesis presents a thorough survey of the central aspects of the phonology of Shaoxing Chinese from a synchronic perspective and on the basis of recent theoretical phonological developments, with the secondary goal of casting some light on current issues in Modern Chinese (Mandarin).
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Language diversity, its genesis, history and cognitive base
The project aims at highlighting and strengthening Dutch research into the diversity of the world’s languages from a historic and a cognitive perspective.
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Leiden University Centre for Linguistics
There are over 7,000 languages in the world and over half of the world’s population is bilingual. But how do all these people use their language? And how do these languages differ from one another? Under the slogan of ‘Interconnecting linguistic diversity,’ the researchers from the Leiden University…
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Computational linguistics
Computational linguistics uses computational methods to help answer linguistics questions across a variety of topics.
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Theoretical Linguistics
Theoretical linguistics seeks to understand the underlying principles of the nature of human language.
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Computational Linguistics
In this theme you will be supplied with a firm background in the core of current computational linguistics and a solid comprehension of its neighboring fields.
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Applied Linguistics
The goal of the field of Applied Linguistics is to apply the findings and the techniques from research in linguistics to solve practical language-related problems in society.
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Linguistics (BA)
There is not a day without language: we use it to read, to write, to communicate. But do you ever wonder how you learned to speak your own language when you were a child? And how, as an adult, do you learn new languages? Linguistics has the answer to those questions. In the BA Linguistics at Leiden…
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Applied Linguistics
Applying linguistics research to solve practical language-related problems in society.
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Linguistics network
LIAS researchers working in the field of linguistics hold dual appointments in LIAS and the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL).
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The speaker in speech – the interdependence of linguistic and indexical information
Which features characterize speakers’ voices, and how are these features determined by what a speaker is saying?
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Descriptive Linguistics
Documenting and describing languages of the world.
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Language socialization in deaf families in Africa
Across cultures, parents help their children master the social and linguistic codes needed in adult life. Recent research on language socialization found important cross-cultural differences, pointing out the need for more diversity for a full understanding of this process. Deaf communities form…
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Linguistics (Specialisation)
Are you thinking about studying Linguistics? Learn more and watch the programme presentation.
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Functional projections in analytic languages
The ultimate aim of the project is to find out whether there are such things as
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Willem Adelaar
Faculty of Humanities
w.f.h.adelaar@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2511
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Modern Languages (MA)
In the specialisation in Modern Languages you will explore the structure, acquisition, history and use of one or more of these five languages in depth: Chinese, English, French, German and/or Italian.
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Mongolic Phonology and the Qinghai-Gansu Languages
This dissertation provides an overview of the phonological developments of the Qinghai-Gansu languages, comparing them to the reconstructed ancestral language.
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Innovation in tradition
This dissertation explores the history of the language of a manuscript known as Tönnies Fonne's Russian-German Phrasebook (Pskov 1607).
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Linguistics: Translation
Are you thinking about studying Linguistics: Translation? Learn more and watch the introduction videos.
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The Germanic loanwords in Proto-Slavic: origin and accentuation
This dissertation provides a thorough review of the words belonging to the oldest layer of Germanic loanwords in Proto-Slavic and answers the question of how these words were adapted to the Proto-Slavic accentual system.
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Temporal Construals of Bare Predicates in Mandarin Chinese
This study presents the first systematic investigation and detailed theoretical analysis of the temporal interpretations of sentences with bare (aspectually unmarked) predicates in Mandarin.
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Chinese Final Particles and the Syntax of the Periphery
In this research, for the first time a detailed description as well as systematic and comparative analysis of the final particle system in Chinese are provided.
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Unknown 18th-century Dutch: language variation in private letters
How did common people write in the late eighteenth century? Little is yet known on this topic, since our knowledge is mainly based on printed texts written by a small part of the (male) elite population. This dissertation – written from a sociolinguistic point of view – gives us new insights into late-…