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 Northern Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, 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

Vak	EC	Semester 1	Semester 2
First semester
Linguistic Structures of Native America	10
Austronesian and Papuan Linguistics	10
Languages of Northern Africa and the Arabian Peninsula	10
Fieldwork methods	10
Languages of Sub-Saharan Africa	10
Language, Culture and Cognition	5/10.0
Oral Traditions	10
Topics in Amerindian Ethnolinguistics	10
Amerindian Categorizations of the World: An Ethnolinguistic Approach	5
Second semester
Typology	10
Language Contact	10
MA Thesis Linguistics	20

Courses