Comparative Indo-European Linguistics
| Degree: | Master of Arts in Comparative Indo-European Linguistics |
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| Mode of Study: | Full-time |
| Duration: | 1 year |
| Start date: | September, February (Start in September is strongly recommended) |
| Language of instruction: | English |
The MA in Comparative Indo-European Linguistics deals with the study and comparison of a large number of interrelated languages in Europe and Asia, offering you a unique and inspiring study programme within the Netherlands.
Not only will you be following the only course of its kind in the country, you will be able to study languages not taught at any other Dutch institute – for example, Armenian, Albanian, Avestan and Lithuanian.
Students who want to combine Indo-European Linguistics with an in-depth study of a language or a group of languages will be able to take advantage of the expertise offered by the Faculty of Humanities in such relevant subjects as Indology, Classics, Slavic, Persian and languages of the Ancient Near East.
The information about this programme is available in the following languages:
The purpose of comparing the Indo-European languages is to determine the languages’ relationship to each other and the changes in the phonological, morphological and syntactic structure of the languages in their historical continuity. The ultimate aim is to look at the possibilities to reconstruct the language that was at the basis of the many separate languages of the Indo-European language family. Cultural-historical, religious and archaeological aspects are considered in the reconstruction process.
