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:
Programme
You are free to make your own selection of courses, although at least 30 ECTS must be devoted to language courses and auxiliary subjects. For each language or language group selected, you must focus on one or more related languages. For example, for the study of Celtic, some knowledge of Old Irish, Welsh, Breton, Gallic and Celtiberic is required. If Leiden can’t offer you the required expertise for the individual curricula, you can follow language courses with sister institutions in the Netherlands or abroad. For the supporting courses, you may choose from various courses that are offered as part of, amongst others, the MPhil (Research Master’s) programme in Linguistics.
Examples include:
- The Master’s class ‘Approaches to Diversity’, in which four major linguistic research traditions are compared.
- The Master’s class ‘Samples of Linguistic Structure II: Typology’, in which phonological, syntactic, lexicological and grammatical characteristics of various languages are analysed by experts in the languages in question.
For the most up to date course overview, see the e-Prospectus.
The MA in Comparative Indo-European Linguistics concludes with you writing a thesis based on your original research work
