547 search results for “comparative indo-europese linguistics” in the Staff website
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45th Symposium on Old English, Middle English and Historical Linguistics in the Low Countries (#SOEMEHL45)
Conference
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Lettie DorstFaculty of Humanities
a.g.dorst@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3026
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Jonah Schulhofer-WohlFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
j.b.schulhofer-wohl@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 3903
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Ellen van ReulerFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
a.a.h.e.van.reuler@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5077
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Caspar van den BergFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
c.f.van.den.berg@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9400
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Catia AntunesFaculty of Humanities
c.a.p.antunes@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2735
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Eelco van der MaatFaculty of Humanities
e.van.der.maat@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1739
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Márcia GonçalvesFaculty of Humanities
m.a.goncalves@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2946
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Wouter Veenendaal
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
w.p.veenendaal@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Ingrid van Biezen
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
vanbiezen@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3779
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Meetings and events
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Call for digital media arts: What voices speak in your campus?
Research
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PhD research: Was there already Dutch-Dutch and Belgian-Dutch in the past?
What developments preceded modern Standard Dutch? PhD candidate Iris Van de Voorde conducted research on ‘pluricentricity’, or the idea that language norms arise in different places and spread outwards from there. PhD defence on 19 April.
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Claartje Levelt: ' Students sometimes ask questions I have to think hard about'
Claartje Levelt is professor of First Language Acquisition. She researches how babies and toddlers learn their mother tongue. Besides her work, she enjoys being involved with music.
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ERC Consolidator Grants for six Leiden researchers
From the effects of hormone fluctuations in women via the interior structure of giant planets to the prehistory of the languages: six Leiden researchers have been awarded a Consolidator Grant by the European Research Council.
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Research schools
Many PhD candidates, as well as research master students at the Faculty of Humanities, are members of a research school related to their area of expertise. Research schools aim at the collaboration of researchers from different faculties in the same university (interfaculty schools) or in different…
- Leiden Translation Talks
- Una Europa Talk | Connections in International Relations: Competition vs. Integration
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How Russia uses language as a weapon of war
According to Russian propaganda Ukrainians are Nazis and people from the West are Satanists. Egbert Fortuin thinks we should take this propaganda seriously.
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Hello, who is this? The relationship between linguistic and speaker- dependent information in the acoustics of consonants
PhD defence
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CompaRe: Smart and lean integration: finding regional solutions to global challenges
Conference
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with Multiculturalism? A Methodological Reflection on Asian and Comparative Philosophy
Lecture
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CLIN34 - Leiden 2024
Conference
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Decolonizing and Deconstructing National Historical Frameworks: From the Comparative to the transnational turn in History
Lecture, Brown-bag Seminar
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LUCIR US Elections Roundtable 1: Comparative perspectives on campaigning, polarisation, and political violence
Debate
- Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Student Assistant-Text as Data for Chinese Policy Research
Humanities, Institute for Area Studies, Chinese Studies
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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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Beyond Identity: Reading The Zhuāngzǐ and Levinas as Resources for Comparative Philosophy
PhD defence
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MODIFED: Morphosyntactic Dialect Feature Detection Workshop
Workshop
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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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LUCIR US Elections Roundtable 2: Comparative perspectives on the results and where the US is headed to now
Debate
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Democracy, from 1990 to 2022 Plebiscite: Recent Historical Analysis in Comparative Perspective
Lecture, MAIR Seminar
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Femicide: a comparative approach from a Dutch, Italian and European point of view
Conference
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NWO Grant for Research into the History of Languages: ‘It tells us something about our past as humans’
A collaboration between linguists, geographers and anthropologists aims to uncover how languages spread across South America over thousands of years. Associate Professor Rik van Gijn is responsible for the linguistic side of this NWO project.
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Tinder for orang-utans: comparing sexually selective cognition among Bornean orang-utans (Pongo pygmaeus) and humans (Homo sapiens)
PhD defence
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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.
- Updates
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Opening Humanities Hub in Huizinga
Opening
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Sjef Barbiers appointed Scientific Director: 'LUCL is unique in the world'
The LUCL has a new Scientific Director. Professor Sjef Barbiers took over the reins from Lisa Cheng with effect from 1 January. 'This is a great opportunity to contribute to a wonderful institution.'
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ICCT Live Webinar on Report Launch: 'A Comparative Study of Non-State Violent Drone Use in the Middle East'
Lecture
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Six top rated programmes at humanities
The bachelor programmes German Language and Culture, Classics, Dutch Language and Culture, Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Religious studies and Linguistics have received the predicate top rated programme from the Keuzegids.
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Michaël Peyrot appointed professor: 'We have a bright future ahead of us'
Michaël Peyrot has been appointed professor of Comparative Indo-European Linguistics at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics with retroactive effect from 1 January. He is looking forward to passing on his love for the subject to a new generation of students.
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Biologist Carel ten Cate will now really retire. Right?
Pigeons, zebra finches and parakeets. Carel ten Cate studied bird sounds. But not just that. Together with linguists from Leiden, he investigated parallels between birdsong and language. On 9 June, his farewell symposium was held to mark the end of his broad career. Well, the end? Carel ten Cate has…
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‘Language is part of your identity’
Language is omnipresent: when you talk, app or meet in Teams. Understanding how we communicate with one another and what communication does to us is essential. In her inaugural lecture, Nivja de Jong will call to redress the balance between the sciences and the humanities.
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NWO funding for three new humanities PhD students
Three PhD candidates from the Faculty of Humanities have successfully applied for funding from NWO for new PhD candidates. The three upcoming researchers will receive funding from the PhDs in Humanities programme. With the funding, NWO wants to boost the recruitment and advancement of young talent in…
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Veni grant for Xiaochen Zheng to explore cognitive control processes of language
'Psychologists think I’m a linguist but linguists think I’m a psychologist,' says cognitive neuroscientist Xiaochen Zheng. With the Veni grant she will be able to bring these two fields of research closer together. Read her answers to five questions.
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From Azerbaijani to Swedish: ‘Multilingualism improves your understanding of others’
September 26 is the European Day of Languages. There are 24 official languages in Europe but some 200 languages in total are spoken on our continent. What good are all these different languages? And should we all learn Azerbaijani or Swedish? We asked Lisa Cheng, Professor of General Linguistics.
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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.