Department of Linguistics

The Department of Linguistics covers practically all subfields of the discipline: General Linguistics (Theory of Grammar), Psycholinguistics (First and Second Language Acquisition, Language Computation, Speech Pathology), most of the various subfields of Applied Linguistics (Sociolinguistics, Discourse Analysis, Language Politics) and Historical and Comparative Linguistics (Indo-European Studies). It is the department’s policy to warrant that the phenomenon of human language can be studied from all of these perspectives. This is mirrored in a single BA curriculum covering the basis of all the relevant subfields. Three master programs represent the main directions of research.

Research collaborations within the Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies are established with linguistic chairs and subdivisions of the modern philologies (most notably in the departments of African Studies, English and American Studies, German Studies, Romance Studies) and with the Chair for Language Teaching and Learning. As for collaboration within the University, the department takes part in the interdisciplinary Cognitive Science Research Platform. Project and workshop collaboration is strongly developed with departments on both the national and international levels.Several international journals are being edited by members of the department.

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