English Language and/or Linguistics
Entry requirements
A 2:1 honours degree, or international equivalent.
Months of entry
September
Course content
- Linguistic theory
- Language variation and change
- Language evolution, acquisition, and development
Centre for Research in Linguistics and Language Sciences (CRiLLS)
The Centre for Research in Linguistics and Language Sciences (CRiLLS) is one of the largest centres for linguistic research in Europe, so you have a unique opportunity to acquire a wide range of methodologies and exposure to diverse theoretical perspectives to enrich your own research. We have a wide range of research supervisors you can work with.
We offer subject-specific research training, including specialised practical workshops on statistical packages and software used in corpus linguistic methodologies. This specific training complements the research training programme you will be part of as a postgraduate research student.
Department specialisms
Syntactic theory and comparative syntax; phonological theory; morphophonology and morphosyntax; philosophy of language; philosophy of linguistics; architecture of the language faculty; historical/diachronic linguistics; variationist/comparative linguistics; sociolinguistics; grammaticalization; dialect syntax; corpus analysis; linguistic typology; first language acquisition and development; the acquisition of second language morphosyntax and phonology; evolutionary linguistics
Information for international students
To study this course you need to meet our Band 9 English Language requirements: Direct Entry: IELTS 7.0 overall (with 6.5 in writing and a minimum of 6.0 in all other sub-skills). If you have lower English Language scores, you may be accepted onto a Pre-sessional English Language course.
Fees and funding
See our course fees and funding web page.
Qualification and course duration
MLitt by research
Course contact details
- Name
- Sherelle Coulson, Programme Administrator, School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics
- pg.english@ncl.ac.uk
- Phone
- +44 (0) 191 208 7199