Students must select TWO out of the three modules below:
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PLIN0081 | Semantics and Pragmatics II | 15 | 2 |
PLIN0053 | Interfaces in Syntax | 15 | 2 |
PLIN0074 | Phonetics and Phonology II | 15 | 2 |
In addition, students choose TWO 15-credit option modules in consultation with the programme director. You can find further information at https://www.ucl.ac.uk/pals/linguistics-plin-modules.
Students will be able to tailor the programme to meet their personal linguistic interests either by focusing on one particular area, or by diversifying into other branches. For example, a student could choose to study an option (such as language acquisition or language evolution) only indirectly related to the core areas, and to write his or her dissertation on yet another area (for instance, sociolinguistics). Alternatively, a student could choose to study an option taken from one of the core areas (such as advanced syntactic theory or issues in pragmatics), and to write his or her dissertation in a related area. As a consequence, students may spend as much as three fifths or as little as one fifth of their time working in one particular part of the discipline.
Time table You can view the timetable for the current academic year at www.ucl.ac.uk/timetable . Click on "degree programme", enter "Linguistics", choose MA Linguistics, Year 1, and click on "Show Timetable". You will now see all classes for all compulsory modules for the whole year. You can click on "Change Display" at the top left to see classes for Term 1 and Term 2 separately. You need to attend all lectures and for most modules, you will attend one additional tutorial.
Programme Director: Dr Jamie White
Teaching staff (NB: staff may occasionally be absent for a term or more on research or other leave)
In addition, we can call on the support of Postgraduate Teaching Assistants.
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Students are advised to apply as early as possible due to competition for places. Those applying for scholarship funding (particularly overseas applicants) should take note of application deadlines.
The programme is particularly suitable for students whose undergraduate degree included a minority of linguistic course-units, or who have studied linguistics of a more traditional type elsewhere. It is also suitable for good graduates who have encountered linguistics only indirectly, for instance through psychology, philosophy, or foreign language teaching.
For more information see our Applications page.
When we assess your application we would like to learn:
Together with essential academic requirements, the personal statement is your opportunity to illustrate whether your reasons for applying to this programme match what the programme will deliver.
Further information is available in the UCL prospectus: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-students/graduate/taught-degrees/linguistics-ma#fees-funding . UK/EU national may be eligible to apply for a postgraduate loan of up to £10,000 to help with fees and living costs. Learn more about postgraduate loans.
For information on general scholarship opportunities, please select the link below: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/scholarships/funding-students-postgraduate-taught-courses
The European Funding Guide includes details of further funding opportunities.
Many linguistics graduates from UCL carry on studying linguistics at MPhil/PhD level with a view to pursuing an academic career. Others go on to teach languages, especially English (as a first or foreign language) or embark on a range of other careers, from law, media, computing and speech and language therapy to all aspects of commerce and industry.
Linguistics MA students acquire a wide range of transferable skills, which opens up opportunities in many different sectors include language teaching, translating and interpreting, marketing, communication, journalism, management, and law. Graduates who achieve good results are well placed to go on to a research degree in linguistics at top universities, often with a view to pursuing an academic career.
Careers data is taken from the ‘Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education’ survey undertaken by HESA looking at the destinations of UK and EU students in the 2013–2015 graduating cohorts six months after graduation.
Read general information on careers open to Linguistics graduates and information on the career paths taken by some of our alumni .
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Any Questions? Polarity as a Window into the Structure of Questions
The Caland System in the North: Archaism and Innovation in Property-Concept/State Morphology in Balto-Slavic
Diachronic Poetics and Language History: Studies in Archaic Greek Poetry
Feature Mismatch: Deponency in Indo-European Languages
The Hidden Structure of Thai Noun Phrases
Interpreting Questions with Non-Exhaustive Answers
Local Instability the Syntax of ‘Spilt Topics’
A Modular Theory of Radical 'Pro' Drop
Nominal Arguments and Language Variation
The Origin of Variation in Norwegian Retroflexion
Phasing in Full Interpretation
Prosodic Noun Incorporation and Verb-Initial Syntax
The Role of Alternatives and Strength in Grammar
The Semantics of Measurement
The Sense of Self: Topics in the Semantics of ‘De Se’ Expressions
Soft but Strong. Neg-Raising, Soft Triggers, and Exhaustification
Split Intransitivity in Ranmo
Studies in Tocharian Adjective Formation
The Syntax-Phonology Interface in Native and Near-Native Korean
Topics at the PF Interface of Turkish
Toward a Theory of Mandarin Quantification
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MIT philosophy doctoral student Abe Mathew believes individual rights play an important role in protecting the autonomy we value. But he also thinks we risk serious dysfunction if we ignore the importance of supporting and helping others.
“We should also acknowledge another feature of our moral lives,” he says, “namely, our need for affinity or closeness with other human beings, and our continued reliance on them to live flourishing lives in the world.”
Philosophy can be an important tool in understanding how humans interact with one another, he says. “I study moral obligation and rights, how the two relate, and the role they have to play in how we relate to one another,” Mathew adds.
Mathew asks that we think of autonomy and affinity as opposing forces — an idea he attributes to MIT philosopher, professor, and mentor Kieran Setiya . Autonomy pushes people farther from us, and affinity pulls people closer, Mathew says.
“The dance between autonomy and affinity creates morality,” Mathew adds.
Mathew is investigating one of moral philosophy’s foundational ideas — that every obligation we owe to another person correlates to a right that they have against us. The “Correlativity Thesis” is widely taken for granted, he says.
“A common example that's used to motivate the Correlativity Thesis is a case of a promise,” Mathew explains. “If I promise to meet you for coffee at 11, then I have a moral obligation to meet you for coffee at 11, and you have a right to meet me at 11.” While Mathew believes this is how promising works, he doesn’t think the Correlativity Thesis is true across the board.
“There isn’t necessarily a one-to-one relationship between rights and obligations,” he said. “A pregnant person on the bus may not have a right to your seat, but you do have an obligation to give it up for them.”
“We need folks’ help to do things”
Before coming to MIT, Mathew majored in philosophy and minored in ethics, law, and society as an undergraduate at the University of Toronto. Upon graduating in 2020, he was awarded the prestigious John Black Aird Scholarship, given each year to the university’s top undergraduate.
Now at MIT, Mathew says his research is based on the value of shared responsibility.
“We need folks’ help to do things,” he says.
When we lose sight of moral values, our societal connections can fall away, he argues.
“Mutual cooperation makes our lives possible,” Mathew says.
His research suggests alternatives to the idea that rights demand obligations.
“Morality puts a certain kind of pressure on us to ‘pay it forward’ — it requires us to do for others what was once done for us,” Mathew says. “If we don’t, we’re making an exception of ourselves; in essence, we're saying, ‘I was worthy of that help from others, but no one else is worthy of being helped by me.’”
Mathew also values the notion of paying it forward because he’s seen its value in his life. “I’ve encountered so many people who’ve gone above and beyond that I owe them,” he says.
A valuable social compact
Mathew has been extensively involved in “public philosophy.” For example, he’s organized public events at MIT, like the successful “Ask a Philosopher Anything” panel in the Stata Center lobby.
Mathew’s work leading the local chapter of Corrupt the Youth , a philosophy outreach program focused on bringing philosophy to high schools students from historically marginalized groups, is an extension of his belief in our shared responsibility for one another — of “paying it forward.”
“The reason I discovered philosophy was because of my instructors in college who not only introduced me to the subject, but also cultivated my enthusiasm for it and mentored me,” he says. “Our moral theorizing should take into account the kinds of creatures we are: vulnerable human beings who are constantly in need of each other to get by in the world,” Mathew says. One aspect of our vulnerability is our tendency to make mistakes, and as a result, damage our relationships with one another. Morality, Mathew says, gives us a tool — the social practice of forgiving — through which we can coexist, repair relationships we damage, and lead our lives together.
Mathew wants moral philosophers to consider their ideas’ practical, real-world applications. His experiences derive, in part, from notions of moral responsibility. Those who’ve been given a lot, he believes, have a greater responsibility for others. These kinds of social systems can consistently be improved by paying good deeds forward, he says.
“Moral philosophy should help build a world that allows for our mutual benefit,” Mathew says.
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