Leiden University Centre for Linguistics

The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL) is one of the institutes within the Faculty of Humanities. It unites the linguistic research and teaching at Leiden University. LUCL is also responsible for the Academic Language Centre as well as for most language teaching within the Faculty. The overall theme tying all the activities of the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL) together is Structure and variation in the languages of the world. In this overall theme, three key components can be distinguished: * Language structure, basically studied and taught from a theory-driven perspective, defined not only narrowly within the field of linguistics, but also in a larger interdisciplinary context. * Language variation, basically studied and taught from a descriptive perspective and with special attention for unique expertise in the field of diachronic research. * Languages of the world, implying the documentation and study of a geographically unique range of languages, with a strong emphasis on (endangered) languages in the non-Western world.