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Graduates are specialised in the focus area Indo-European Studies. They have a broad linguistic and philological knowledge of mostly ancient Indo-European languages. They have the skills to deal with questions related to the literary, historical, cultural, and social context of text production, transmission, reception, and language use. They are experts in historical linguistics, are familiar with the mechanisms of language evolution, and are able to apply up-to-date qualitative and quantitative methods for reconstructing ancestor states of a language family.
Graduates are also familiar with methods of linguistic data acquisition (e.g. written records, elicitation) and have acquired knowledge in the automatic processing and statistical analysis of large corpora and databases. They have obtained basic programming skills with a focus on linguistic data processing.
Graduates are prepared to participate in research projects and are able to read and evaluate research papers in linguistics. They are qualified to join a PhD program on university level.
German, (English)
In the focus area Indo-European Studies (Indogermanistik) you have to choose modules according to the following rules:
Indogermanistik
Komparative Methode der historischen Sprachwissenschaft
Presentation of the focus area Indo-European Studies by Paul Widmer (PDF, 8 MB)
Annex to the Study Regulations (EN) / Anhang zur Studienordnung (DE)
Sample Curriculum (EN) / Mustercurriculum (DE)
You will find the Sample Curriculum of Indo-European Studies on page 6.
The modules for this focus area are offered by the Department of Comparative Language Science.