The papers listed below are available to students taking the Linguistics Tripos during 2024-25. The list of papers offered may vary from year to year.
Papers with a hash symbol (#) at the end of the title have managed numbers (see Managed Number Papers).
Linguistics Part I
At Linguistics Part I, all students must take the following papers:
- Li1 - Sounds and words
- Li2 - Structures and meanings
- Li3 - Language, brains and machines
- Li4 - Linguistic variation and change
Linguistics Part IIA
All students who have taking Linguistics Part I will have a free choice of four papers from the lists below. Some papers are taught by the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (DTAL), others are taught by other Faculties or Departments ("borrowed" papers).
Students who enter the Linguistics Tripos at Part IIA having taken Part I in another Tripos will be required to take the Li1 (Sounds and words) and Li2 (Structures and meanings) papers, unless they have already done so, for example at MML Part IB.
Papers offered by DTAL:- Li6 - Phonetics
- Li7 - Phonology and Morphology
- Li8 - Morphology
- Li9 - Syntax
- Li10 - Semantics and pragmatics
- Li11 - Historical Linguistics (runs on alternate years with Li13: running in 2024-25)
- Li12 - History of Ideas on Language (suspended in 2024-25)
- Li13 - History of the English Language (runs on alternate years with Li11: suspended in 2023-24)
- Li14 - History of the French language (suspended in 2023-24)
- Li15 - First and second language acquisition
- Li16 - Language Learning and Cognition
- Li17 - Language Typology and Cognition
- Li18 - Computational Linguistics
- The Language of Italy( Paper It.10 of the MML Tripos)
- The Ibero-Romance languages (Paper Sp.11 of the MML Tripos)
- German: A Linguistics Introduction (Paper Ge.7 of the MML Tripos)
- The Romance Languages (Paper CS1 of the MML Tripos)
- Celtic Philology (Paper 12 of the ASNC Tripos Part II)
- Elements of Comparative Linguistics (Paper E1 of Part II the Classics Tripos)
- Greek in the Bronze Age (Paper E2 of Part II of the Classics Tripos)
- Latin as she is Spoke (Paper E3 of Part II of the Classics Tripos)
- Germanic Philology (Paper 11 of Part II of the ASNC Tripos)
- The French Language: Variation and Change (Paper Fr. 13 of Part II of the MML Tripos)
- Structure and varieties of Italian (Paper It. 2 of the MML Tripos)
- History of the Russian language (Paper Sl. 8 of the MML Tripos)
- Comparative Semitic Linguistics (Paper MES.41 of the Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Tripos)
- Chinese Linguistics (Paper C.19 of the Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Tripos)
Linguistics Part IIB
At Part IIB, all students must take the following paper:
Student must also offer a dissertation, and two further papers from the list of papers available at Part IIA.
