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Linguistics: English Language and Linguistics

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:

Courses 1 and 2: Any two courses from the list below
Course 3: Any course offered within the MA Linguistics (including the list below)
Course 4: Any course offered within the MA Linguistics (including the list below), a course on a linguistic subject taught in another MA or a course taught within the MA Literary Studies: English Literature and Culture

Courses

Vak EC Semester 1 Semester 2

First semester
American Rhetoric: The 2012 US Presidential Election for Students of English 10
Second Language Learning and Teaching 10
Letters as Sociohistorical-linguistic Documents 10
English Word Formation 10
Historical Syntax 10
Lend Us a Word: Investigating the Phenomenon of Lexical Borrowing 10

Second semester
Advanced Translation 10
Sociolinguistics 10
Prescription and Prescriptivism 10
Language Change 10
World Englishes 10
MA Thesis Linguistics 20