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Postgraduate Diploma in Linguistics

Special Admission Requirements:

The admission requirement from a USP bachelor’s degree is a GPA of at least 3.0 in five linguistics courses.

Courses:

  1. LL414 (Research Methods For Linguistics) - This course provides training in research design, data gathering and analysis methods for linguistics and applied linguistics. The topics are selected from quantitative and qualitative approaches, including field methods, text analysis, surveys and corpus research.

  2. LL415 - Information not available

  3. LL423 (Comparative Linguistics) - Not available to students who have completed LL323. In this course, students will be introduced to the concept of the genetic relationship amongst languages, language typology, the comparative method, lexicostatistics, linguistic sub-grouping, reconstruction of proto-languages, and historical inference.

  4. LL425 (Syntax And Typology) - Not available to students who have completed LL325. This course will examine the nature of the grammatical structure of language, focusing on syntax as the structural and formal response to the functional communicative requirements of language.

Note: Please click on the course codes to access detailed information about the course from the USP database.

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