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Niclas Burenhult

Associate Professor, Manager of Research and Research Education

  • General Linguistics
  • Centre for Languages and Literature

Researcher

  • Lund University Humanities Lab

Contact information

E-mail niclas.burenhultling.luse

Phone +46 46 222 88 17

Visiting address
Helgonabacken 12, Lund

Postal address
Box 201, 221 00 Lund

Internal post code 20

Niclas Burenhult received his Ph.D. in General Linguistics from Lund U. in 2002. He is Associate Professor of General Linguistics at the Centre for Languages and Literature, and former Research Associate at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen. His research interests include the relationship between language, culture and cognition, semantic typology, language documentation and description, and linguistic prehistory. He has a particular interest in linguistic categorisation of landscape and was awarded a European Research Council Starting Grant in 2010 for the project 'Language, cognition and landscape (LACOLA)'. He is a leading expert on the Aslian languages, a group of Austroasiatic languages spoken in the Malay Peninsula, and he is a coordinator of the digital resource RWAAI. His research is currently funded by a grant from the Swedish Research Council.

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Member of the steering committee for the Master's Programme in Languages and Linguistics

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Manager of Research and Research Education at General Linguistics

Member of the Board of Section 6

Niclas Burenhult

Associate Professor, Manager of Research and Research Education

  • General Linguistics
  • Centre for Languages and Literature

Researcher

  • Lund University Humanities Lab

Contact information

E-mail niclas.burenhultling.luse

Phone +46 46 222 88 17

Visiting address
Helgonabacken 12, Lund

Postal address
Box 201, 221 00 Lund

Internal post code 20

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