Research projects

Prosody in whispered speech: alternative cues to pitch

Prosody in whispered speech: alternative cues to pitch. NWO VENI; researcher: Willemijn Heeren

The dynamics of light verbs in the history of West Germanic languages

The dynamics of light verbs in the history of West Germanic languages. NWO VENI (2010-2014); researcher: Marion Elenbaas

The Dawn of Dutch: Language Change in the Low Countries between 500 and 1200 AD

The Dawn of Dutch: Language Change in the Low Countries between 500 and 1200 AD. NWO VIDI Project (2009-2014); project leader: Michiel de Vaan

How Arabic influenced Berber, and the typology of contact-induced change

How Arabic influenced Berber, and the typology of contact-induced change. NWO Vrije Competitie (2009-2013); project leader: Harry Stroomer

Documentation and Analysis of West African Sign Languages

Documentation and Analysis of West African Sign Languages. NWO EuroBABEL-project (2009-2012). Project leader: Victoria Nyst.

EuroBABEL-project 'Alor-Pantar languages: origins and theoretical impact'

Alor-Pantar languages: origins and theoretical impact. NWO EuroBABEL-project (2009-2012). Project leader: Marian Klamer

Becoming a nation of readers in East Timor: language policy and adult literacy development in a multilingual context

Becoming a nation of readers in East Timor: language policy and adult literacy development in a multilingual context. NWO-WOTRO Integrated Programme (2009-2012). Project leader: Prof.dr Sjaak Kroon (Tilburg University).

Documentation and archiving of oral tradition: researches and interdisciplinary approaches

Documentation and archiving of oral tradition: researches and interdisciplinary approaches. CO-REACH Network, NWO/KNAW (2009-2011); Project leader: Dr. Lauri Harvilahti (Finnish Literature Society).

A Comprehensive Study of Tangut Fragments with Tibetan Transcription

A Comprehensive Study of Tangut Fragments with Tibetan Transcription. NWO Rubicon (2009-2010); researcher: Chung-pui Tai.

Letters as loot. Towards a non-standard view on the history of Dutch

Letters as loot. Towards a non-standard view on the history of Dutch. NWO Vrije competitie (2008-2013); project leader: Marijke van der Wal

Focus and ellipsis

Focus and ellipsis. NWO VIDI project (2008-2013); project leader: Anikó Lipták

Crossing the great divide: the sonorant-obstruent contrast in phonology

Crossing the great divide: the sonorant-obstruent contrast in phonology. NWO VENI (2008-2012); researcher: Bert Botma

'Kindersprache, Aphasie und allgemeine Lautgesetze' revisited

'Kindersprache, Aphasie und allgemeine Lautgesetze' revisited. NWO Vrije competitie (2008-2012); project leaders: Claartje Levelt, Marc van Oostendorp

The nature of evidentiality

The nature of evidentiality. NWO Research programme (2008-2012); project leaders: Johan Rooryck and Willem Adelaar

"Giving them back their languages"

"Giving them back their languages". The endangered Amerindian languages of the Guianas: Wayana and Tunayana-Waiwai. NWO Endangered Languages Programme, 2005-2009; project leader: Willem Adelaar.

An experimental approach to the interaction of tone sandhi and focus expression in six dialects of Chinese

An experimental approach to the interaction of tone sandhi and focus expression in six dialects of Chinese. NWO VIDI project, 2008-2012; project leader: Yiya Chen.

Functional projections in analytic languages

Functional projections in analytic languages. NWO Klein Programma (2008-2012); project leader: Rint Sybesma

Stressing the facts. Accentuation in Hittite

Stressing the facts. Accentuation in Hittite. NWO VENI project (2008-2011); Alwin Kloekhorst.

Dual electric-acoustic speech processor with linguistic assessment tools for deaf individuals with residual low frequency hearing

Dual electric-acoustic speech processor with linguistic assessment tools for deaf individuals with residual low frequency hearing. EU Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), 2008-2010; principal investigators: Vincent van Heuven, Johan Rooryck

Stylistics of Dutch

Stylistics of Dutch. NWO Vrije competitie (2007-2013); project leader: Arie Verhagen.

A psycholinguistic model for phonological development

A psycholinguistic model for phonological development. NWO VIDI project (2007-2012); project leader: Claartje Levelt

Proto-Greek: a reconstruction

Proto-Greek: a reconstruction. NWO Toptalent (2007-2012); researcher: Lucien van Beek

Documentation and description of Langue des Signes Malienne

Documentation and description of Langue des Signes Malienne. ELDP/SOAS (2007-2010); project leader: Victoria Nyst

Tone-vowel interaction in Franconian dialects

Tone-vowel interaction in Franconian dialects. NWO programmatic research (2007-2009); Leiden co-ordinator: Marc van Oostendorp

Degrees across categories

Degrees across categories. NWO VIDI project (2006-2011); project leader: Jenny Doetjes

Orthography in a plurigraphic society: the case of Tuareg in Niger

Orthography in a plurigraphic society: the case of Tuareg in Niger. NWO Individual programme (2006-2010); project leader: Maarten Kossmann

The nature of syntactic change and what it tells us about language

The nature of syntactic change and what it tells us about language. NWO VIDI project (2006-2010); project leader: Chris Reintges

A Grammar of Tafi

A Grammar of Tafi. NWO Endangered languages programme (2006-2010); project leader: Felix Ameka

Existential constructions in Chinese: a comparative study

Existential constructions in Chinese: a comparative study. NWO Mozaïek (2006-2009); project leader: Lisa Cheng

Trans-Himalayan Database Programme

Trans-Himalayan Database Programme. Chinese Academy of Social Sciences/KNAW (2005- ); project leader: George van Driem

Codifiers and the English Language

Codifiers and the English Language (NWO VICI project, 2005-2010; project leader: Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade)

The morpho-syntax of two modal categories in Omotic languages of south-west Ethiopia

The morpho-syntax of two modal categories in Omotic languages of south-west Ethiopia. NWO Endangered langauges (2005-2009); project leader: Maarten Mous

Unpublished sources for the Amazonian languages of Brazil: The Natterer and Caspar language data collections

Unpublished sources for the Amazonian languages of Brazil: The Natterer and Caspar language data collections. NWO Investeringen middelgroot (2005-2009); project leader: Willem Adelaar

The morpho-syntactic development of children with a cochlear implant

The morpho-syntactic development of children with a cochlear implant. NWO VIDI project, 2005-2009; project leader: Martine Coene

The southern Ghana-Togo Mountain Groups: A description of their languages and cultural heritage

The southern Ghana-Togo Mountain Groups: A description of their languages and cultural heritage. NWO Endangered languages programme (2002-2010); project leader: Felix Ameka

Dutch as a construction language

Dutch as a construction language. NWO VIDI project, 2004-2009; project leader: Ton van der Wouden

A typology of verbal derivation in Ethiopian languages

A typology of verbal derivation in Ethiopian languages. NWO WOTRO (2004-2008); project leader: Maarten Mous

Industrialization, Language Contact, and Identity Formation in China (and in Europe)

Industrialization, Language Contact, and Identity Formation in China (and in Europe). NWO (2004-2008); project director: Vincent van Heuven, program co-ordinator: Marien van den Berg

Past projects

A list of past research projects at LUCL.

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