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MA - Master of Arts
Main Campus
Full Time
Sep 2026
1 Year
Our MA Linguistics master's course is a flexible programme that aims to explore the breadth and the depth of linguistics. It builds on the widest range of teaching and research expertise, covering all aspects of theoretical and descriptive linguistics, including: phonetics phonology morphology syntax semantics pragmatics discourse and conversation analysis typology historical linguistics sociolinguistics cognitive linguistics and psycholinguistics computational and corpus linguistics field linguistics the documentation and description of endangered languages. Our teaching staff work on various practical applications of linguistics (eg language codification and language policy, institutional language, language in the community, forensic linguistics). Our internationally-recognised expertise encompasses a breadth of languages, including English and other Germanic languages, Romance languages, Russian, Polish, Arabic, Hebrew, Turkish, Kurdish and other Iranian languages, Amerindian languages, languages of South Asia, indigenous languages of Australia and historical languages such as Old English, Old Saxon and Old Norse.
