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Master Program Linguistics

Indo-European Studies

Description

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.

Language of instruction

German, (English)

Regulations

In the focus area Indo-European Studies (Indogermanistik) you have to choose modules according to the following rules:

  • all compulsory modules (P-Module) from the module group "Methodology" (Methodologie), which are 30 ECTS credits in total
  • at least 18 ECTS credits from the module group "Comparative Method in Historical Linguistics" (Komparative Methode der historischen Sprachwissenschaft)
  • at least 24 ECTS credits from the module group "Indo-European Studies" (Indogermanistik)
  • at least 18 additional ECTS credits of free choice from within the program
  • Master thesis (30 ECTS credits)

Core-elective modules

Indogermanistik

  • Bedingungen der Sprachdynamik (06SM272-504)
  • Statistische Modellierung der Sprachdynamik (06SM272-506)
  • Aufgaben und Methoden der latein. Philologie des Mittelalters (06SM324-502)
  • Hindi-Sprachkurs I (06SM330-002)
  • Hindi-Sprachkurs II (06SM330-003)
  • Hindi-Konversation (06SM330-004)
  • Sanskrit-Sprachkurs I (06SM330-008)
  • Sanskrit-Sprachkurs II (06SM330-009)
  • Pali-Sprachkurs (06SM330-400)
  • Pali-Lektüre (06SM330-401)
  • Historische Sprachstufen: Einführung ins Altfriesische (06SM360-304)
  • Historische Sprachstufen: Einführung ins Althochdeutsche (06SM360-305)
  • Historische Sprachstufen: Einführung ins Altsächsische (06SM360-306)
  • Historische Sprachstufen: Einführung ins Gotische (06SM360-307)

Komparative Methode der historischen Sprachwissenschaft

  • Diversität indogermanischer Sprachen (06SM272-519)
  • Projektarbeit (06SM272-520)
  • Qualitative Rekonstruktion (06SM272-521)

Helpful documents

Organizational unit

The modules for this focus area are offered by the Department of Comparative Language Science