191 search results for “syntax” in the Public website
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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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Admission requirements
To be eligible for Linguistics (research) at Leiden University, you must meet the following admission requirements.
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Admission requirements
To be eligible for Modern Languages at Leiden University, you must meet the following admission requirements.
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Programme structure
This Philosophy bachelor's programme offers perspectives from around the world. It will make you one of the next generation of students who will shape philosophy in the 21st century, ready to take on academic or professional challenges that call for critical thinking, analysis and argumentation skil…
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Programme structure
Dutch Studies is a unique bachelor’s programme in which you will quickly acquire fluency in spoken and written Dutch at a high academic level, at the same time gaining deep understanding of the culture and history of the Netherlands.
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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 as 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 University…
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Launch of the Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics
International scholarly publisher Brill has released the most complete and up-to-date reference work on the Chinese language available today. Prof.dr. Rint Sybesma oversaw the project as Editor-in-Chief.
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Programming is easy to learn
The easy-to-learn programming language Hedy has been used more than 100,000 times in no more than 9 months. Felienne Hermans was a guest in the broadcast of the radio program Science071 to tell more about it.
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NWO PhDs in the Humanities: PhD position for Bobby Ruijgrok
LUCL is pleased to announce that Bobby Ruijgrok has been awarded a PhD-position within the NWO PhDs in the Humanities Programme. His project is entitled 'Tapping into semantic recovery: an event-related potential study on the processing of gapping'. LUCL congratulates Bobby on this beautiful result.
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CfP: Going Romance 2019
The Leiden University Center for Linguistics (LUCL) will organise Going Romance 2019 on November 28-29, 2019.
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A hundred thousand programmes with Hedy!
How can I teach children programming in a playful way? That's the question Felienne Hermans asked herself when she gave programming lessons to children on Saturdays. In March 2020 she launched the Hedy programming language, and with success: 100,000 programs have already been made with Hedy worldwid…
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Two Vrije Competitie Grants for LUCL researchers
LUCL is pleased to announce that two Vrije Competitie Grants have been awarded to LUCL researchers. Prof.dr. Lisa Cheng and dr. Jenny Doetjes have been awarded a grant for their project 'Understanding questions'. Prof.dr. Michael Kemper (UvA) and prof.dr. Jos Schaeken have been awarded a grant for the…
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Syntax-Information-Structure Interaction: Data and analysis
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Ghost in the machine: the deep features of Yanming Guo
In the 1960s at MIT, cognitive scientist Marvin Minsky told a couple of graduate students to program a computer to perform the simple task of recognising objects in pictures, thinking it would be a nice summer project. Scientists from Leiden and the rest of the world are still working on it today.
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In memoriam: Dr Johanna Stöger (1957-2018)
On 19th August, we received the sad news that our dear colleague, Dr Johanna Stöger, has passed on. Hanna died, surrounded by family, at home in Southern Germany. She had battled her illness for some time, and for a while it looked as if treatment would be successful. Alas, Hanna’s recovery was to…
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In the Spotlight: Summer School in Languages and Linguistics
After having been cancelled in 2020, this year the Summer School in Languages and Linguistics is going online. From 12 – 23 July, language and linguistics enthusiasts from all over the world can once again learn about a variety of rare languages and linguistics topics. Director Sasha Lubotsky tells…
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Guest lecture by Sjef Barbiers
Lecture, Special Topics in Dialectology (2023)
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Workshop in honour of Elisabeth J. Kerr and Zhen Li
Conference, Workshop
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Towards a Unified Theory for Noun Class Agreement in Grassfields Bantu
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Special sessions
Speech Prosody 2024 includes seven special sessions. When making a submission, authors are asked to indicate whether they want their paper to be considered for a special session. You can find descriptions of each below.
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The functional load shift from case to adposition: the role of L2-difficulty
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Two NWO grants for Johan Rooryck
LUCL is pleased to announce that Professor Johan Rooryck has been awarded both an NWO Horizon Grant for his project entitled 'Knowledge and culture', and an NWO Vrije Competitie Grant for his project entitled 'Lend me your ears: the grammar of (un)transferable possession' for a total of €2.75m.
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Leiden Workshop on Creole Languages (WoCL)
Conference
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Word order, information structure and agreement in Teke (Bantu B70)
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Dutch primary compounding: Towards a new inventory
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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An experimental investigation of syntactic and discourse-processing claims about filler-gap dependencies: Adjunct islands and parasitic gaps
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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‘I hope to leave a little mark on the field’
Born in Hungary and moved to Austria, András Bárány grew up bi-lingual. It undoubtedly ignited his interest in languages. In Leiden, he now researches ditransitive constructions in over a hundred languages, this way taking another step in untangling some basics of human language.
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Constructing the Siona nominal from the bottom up: a Minimalist perspective
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Causal theory as the “B side” of modal theory: The English progressive as case study
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Children's acquisition of Mandarin Chinese verb-copying sentences
Lecture, CHiLL series
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Definiteness and post-classifier NPE in Cantonese and Longdu
Lecture, CHiLL series
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SAILS Workshop: AI and LLMs: Keeping the Linguist in the Loop
Lecture
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Priority modality, scalarity and modal concord in Chinese
Lecture, CHiLL series
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European Homicide Monitor
The European Homicide Monitor (EHM) offers a standardized framework for countries and regions to compare homicide characteristics, patterns and trends.
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Comparing apples and oranges: What grinding and portioning can tell us about gender and atomicity
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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MODIFED: Morphosyntactic Dialect Feature Detection Workshop
Workshop
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Vedic mantras and rituals and their Avestan parallels: Toward the reconstruction of Indo-Iranian formulae and liturgical structures
Lecture, VVIK lecture
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Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics 2022
Conference
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Small Grants Past Research Projects
The LUCDH foster the development of new digital research by awarding a number of Small Grants each year. These are our past awardees.