Marian Klamer
Director PhD programs and Professor of Austronesian and Papuan Linguistics
- Name
- Prof.dr. M.A.F. Klamer
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2783
- m.a.f.klamer@hum.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-2905-7161
Marian Klamer is Director PhD programs and Professor of Austronesian and Papuan Linguistics at the Centre for Linguistics. She works on the description and comparison of smaller, under-described Austronesian and Papuan languages in Indonesia, and she studies the history and culture of the populations who speak the languages.
More information about Marian Klamer
News
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Focus on well-being at PhD event -
PhD survey results announced -
University strengthens ties with Indonesia -
Five Leiden researchers elected as members of KNAW -
Jiang Wu receives NWO scholarship for PhD project
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Language as a time machine -
Marian Klamer receives NWO Vici-grant
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2012: Grant LAISEANG project Marian Klamer
PhD students
Fields of interest
- Papuan and Austronesian languages and linguistics
- Malay varieties
- language description and documentation
- language contact and change
- linguistic typology
Research
My publications cover a wide range of linguistic topics including morphology, typology, grammaticalization, historical reconstruction, and the effects of language contact on the lexicon and grammar of languages. I wrote grammars on two Austronesian languages (Kambera, 1998; Alorese, 2011) and three Papuan languages (Teiwa, 2010; Kaera, 2014; Sentani, to appear), and recently edited (with Francesca Moro) the volume Traces of contact in the lexicon: Austronesian and Papuan studies (Brill, 2023). In the interdisciplinary RISE-OCSEAN project I am currently responsible for the collection of linguistic data in Island SE Asia.
Grants and awards
- 2019 Elected Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), Amsterdam
Grants (selection, main applicant):
- 2014-2019 Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) – VICI Grant ‘Reconstructing the past through languages of the present’. € 1,500,000
- 2014 NWO – Aspasia premium. € 100,000
- 2012-2014 CLARIN-NL Language Archive of Insular South East Asia and West New Guinea (LAISEANG). € 80,000
- 2009-2012 European Science Foundation (ESF)-EuroCORES-EuroBABEL Research Project ‘Alor-Pantar languages: Origins and theoretical impact’. € 935,000
- 2002-2007 NWO Vernieuwingsimpuls (VIDI) ‘Linguistic variation in Eastern Indonesia’. € 650,000
Curriculum vitae
| Education | |
| 1994 | Ph.D. General Linguistics, cum laude, VU University, Amsterdam |
| 1990 | M.A. General Linguistics, cum laude, VU University, Amsterdam |
| Positions | |
| 2021-present | Director of the Graduate School of Humanities, Leiden University |
| 2014-present | Full Professor of Austronesian and Papuan Linguistics, Leiden University Centre for Linguistics & Institute for Area Studies, Leiden U |
| 2014-2019 | PI of NWO-VICI project 'Reconstructing the past through languages of the present' |
| 2015 | Research Fellow and coordinator of NIAS-Lorentz Theme Group 'Capturing Phylogenetic Algorithms for Linguistics', Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences |
| 2013-2014 | Senior lecturer, Leiden University Centre for Linguistics/Leiden Institute for Area Studies, Leiden U |
| 2013-2014 | Coordinator of the CLARIN-project |
| 2009-2013 | PI of EuroBABEL Collaborative Research Project funded by the European Science Foundation 'Alor-Pantar languages: Origins and theoretical impact' |
| 2002-2007 | PI of NWO-VIDI project 'Linguistic Variation in Eastern Indonesia: The Alor and Pantar Project' |
| 1999-2002 | Senior Research Fellow & Research Coordinator in the Spinoza research project 'Lexicon and Syntax' headed by Prof. P.C. Muysken, Leiden U |
| 1996-2000 | Research Fellow of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) |
| 1994-1995 | Lecturer in General and Applied Linguistics Windesheim University of Applied Sciences, Zwolle |
Director PhD programs and Professor of Austronesian and Papuan Linguistics
- Faculty of Humanities
- Leiden Univ Centre for Linguistics
- LUCL Taalwetenschap
- Klamer Marian (13 March 2017), Talen in het heden bieden zicht op het verleden [Studium Generale 'Allemaal Taal!'. Universiteit Leiden, 13 maart 2017]. [lecture].
- Klamer Marian (8 February 2015), Interview as guest in radio program Onvoltooid Verleden Tijd (OVT). for Onvoltooid Verleden Tijd (OVT) (Radio 1). [interview].
- Klamer Marian (10 December 2015), Van Woord tot Geschiedenis [Academie voor de Nutteloze Kennis, Amsterdam, 10 december 2015]. [lecture].
- Klamer Marian (6 February 2015). Language as a Time Machine. [inaugural address].
- Klamer Marian (6 February 2015). Language as a time machine. Humanities, Leiden. Leiden. [inaugural address].
- Voorzitter van twee Panels Open Competitie L en M
- Member Council for Humanities (Raad voor Geesteswetenschappen)