Linguistics: Language Diversity of Africa, Asia and Native America

Master

This is a specialisation within the MA Linguistics

The specialisation consists of four 10 EC courses or equivalent and the MA thesis (20 EC)

Students take four 10 EC courses (or equivalent), as follows:

Course 1: Any course from Linguistic Structures of Native America, Austronesian and Papuan Linguistics, Languages of Sub-Saharan Africa
Course 2: Typology
Course 3: Any course offered within the MA Linguistics (including the list below) or a course on a linguistic subject taught in another MA
Course 4: Any course offered within the MA Linguistics (including the list below) or a course on a linguistic subject taught in another MA

NB: If you wish to register for any of the MA Linguistics courses, please see the website.

Course	EC	Semester 1	Semester 2
First semester
Oral Traditions	10
Linguistic Structures of Native America	10
Austronesian and Papuan Linguistics	10
Fieldwork methods	10
Languages of Sub-Saharan Africa	10
Berber Linguistics	10
Topics in Amerindian Ethnolinguistics	10
Second semester
Issues in Language Endangerment in the Americas	5
Language, Culture and Cognition	5.0/10.0
Field Phonetics and Laboratory Phonology	10
Typology	10
Language Contact	10
Cross-linguistic Variation in Semantics	10
MA Thesis Linguistics	20

Courses