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Prof. dr. Holger Gzella elected as member of the Academia Europaea 30 September 2015
LUCL member prof. dr. Holger Gzella has been elected as member of the Academia Europaea (The Academy of Europe).
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NWO grant awarded to Karène Sanchez 16 September 2015One of our LUCIS members, Karène Sanchez, has been granted the Internationalisation in the Humanities grant for her project 'Engaging Europe in the Ar...
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Leiden hosts prestigious linguistics conference 11 September 2015
For a brief period Leiden University was the hub of the world of linguistics. The 48th annual conference of the Societas Linguistica Europaea was held...
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Veni grant Lucien van Beek 23 July 2015
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research has awarded dr. Lucien van Beek a Veni grant. This grant offers young researchers the possibilit...
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2015 Roberta D'Alessandro elected Member of the ICSU Committee 25 June 2015
As of this October, linguist Roberta D'Alessandro is appointed as Member of the International Council for Science (ICSU) Committee on Freedom and Resp...
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Language loosens tongues 08 May 2015
Language research generates a wealth of information about people: from our history and cultural differences to the way we learn. Leiden University sha...
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Language gets people talking 08 May 2015Studying languages enables you to unearth a lot of valuable information about humans: it reveals our history and explains cultural differences and it ...
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Linguist Willem Adelaar receives royal decoration 22 April 2015
Linguist Willem Adelaar was appointed to Knight in the Order of the Dutch Lion on October 1st. On that very same day he celebrated his 43-year connect...
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Learning a language is a staggering task 26 March 2015
To properly understand how babies absorb a language we need to study the process from a number of different perspectives, linguist Claartje Levelt arg...
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Using an ERC grant to study languages with beans and millet 04 March 2015
Japanologist and linguist Martine Robbeets is going to use her newly acquired ERC Consolidator Grant to study the origins and spread of Trans-Eurasian...
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Language as a time machine 06 February 2015About 90 per cent of Austronesian and Papuan languages are under threat of soon becoming extinct. Marian Klamer is the only professor in the world who...
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Vrije Competitie Grant for Lisa Cheng and Anikó Liptak 07 January 2015
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded LUCL researchers prof.dr. Lisa Cheng and dr. Anikó Liptak a Vrije Competitie gr...
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Get to know Roberta D'Alessandro and discover the architecture of language 09 October 2014
How does language work and how do we learn a language? The more we know about language, the better we can understand how people interpret the world in...
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Marian Klamer receives NWO Vici-grant 01 October 2014
Linguist Marian Klamer, associated with Leiden University Centre for Linguistics, is one of the 31 scientists to receive a NWO Vici-grant for her rese...
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New language museum for Leiden 15 July 2014
Leiden is to have a new language museum in 2015, a public institute focusing on language in all its facets and where science and social developments c...