Series

Summer School evening lectures

From 10-21 July 2023, LUCL will host the annual Summer School in Languages and Linguistics. The Leiden Summer School in Languages and Linguistics offers a varied program of specialised courses in Descriptive linguistics, in Chinese, Germanic, Indo-European, Indian, Iranian, Semitic languages and linguistics, as well as a number of introductory linguistic courses. During this Summer School there will be five evening lectures, so please come join us!

Programme

10 Jul
Lecture | Summer School evening lectures Towards a functionalist theory of language contact. With special reference to Romani, and with implications for the architecture of the language faculty Yaron Matras
11 Jul
Lecture | Summer School evening lectures Associated Motion in East Asian Languages, with a focus on Chinese and Japanese Christine Lamarre
13 Jul
Lecture | Summer School evening lectures Patterns of language contact in the Tarim Basin in Northwest China Michaël Peyrot
18 Jul
Lecture | Summer School evening lectures Remnants of the Semitic case system in Old Aramaic Benjamin Suchard
20 Jul
Lecture | Summer School evening lectures Prehistoric language contact in Southern Africaː Khoisan traces in modern Bantu languages Hilde Gunnink