News
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Third oldest Papiamento text discovered 08 November 2012
Leiden University researchers have discovered by chance a note from 1783 in Papiamento. They are working on a linguistic study on confiscated Dutch le...
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Linguists from Leiden decipher Phrygian and Lydian inscriptions 13 September 2012
Linguists Alwin Kloekhorst and Alexander Lubotsky from Leiden University made a great discovery this summer. They deciphered a few dozen inscriptions ...
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2012: Grant LAISEANG project Marian Klamer 10 September 2012
Marian Klamer's LAISEANG project has been awarded a research grant by CLARIN.
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Leiden Summer School connects linguists internationally 09 August 2012
'Every year the courses are different, and there are new things to learn.' The 6th Leiden Summer School in Languages and Linguistics from 18-29 July t...
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2012 Two major NWO subsidies for language research in Leiden 12 July 2012
Professor Johan Rooryck will be examining cognition and core knowledge systems and how possession is expressed in different languages. Rooryck and fel...
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2012 Wat is uw impact, meneer Kant? 15 May 2012
Prof. dr. Roberta D'Alessandro has written an article on the increasing difficulties that researchers encounter when they apply for a research grant i...
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2012 Publication 'Stemmen op berkenbast' 14 May 2012
Jos Schaeken has just published a book entitled 'Stemmen op berkenbast. Berichten uit middeleeuws Rusland: dagelijks leven en communicatie'.
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Leiden delves into the mystery of the brain and language 13 April 2012
The Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition (LIBC) is concentrating increasingly on research into the role of the brain in language development. The ...
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2012: Rubicon Peter Jurgec 10 April 2012
Peter Jurgec has been awarded a Rubicon grant to do research at LUCL. His project is entitled The unique sounds of Slovenian. His project aims to prov...
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In search of the frontier between sound and language 13 March 2012Comparison between babies and song-birds when they are learning a non-existent language—a study of this kind has never been tried before. But this is ...
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2012: LSr-Prize for Isabelle van de Calseyde 09 February 2012
LUCL congratulates Isabelle van de Calseyde with winning the LSr Teaching Prize!
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2012 Vrije Competitie Grants for two LUCL members 23 January 2012
LUCL is glad to announce that two of its members have been awarded an NWO Vrije Competitie Grant.
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Four ERC grants for Leiden 16 December 2011
Four of Leiden's top researchers have been awarded substantial grants by the European Research Council.
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2011 ERC Advanced Grant Willem Adelaar 15 December 2011
Prof. Willem Adelaar has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant to do research on Central and Southern American Indian languages.
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2011 David Shakouri awarded NWO PhD-position 08 August 2011
David Shakouri has been awarded a PhD-position by NWO for the PhDs in the Humanities Programme.