The papers listed below are available to students taking the Linguistics Tripos during 2016-7. 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, brain and society
- Li4 - History and varieties of English
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 - Phonological theory
- Li8 - Morphology
- Li9 - Syntax
- Li10 - Semantics and pragmatics
- Li11 - Historical Linguistics
- Li14 - History of the French language
- Li15 - First and second language acquisition
- Li16 - Psychology of language processing and learning
- Li18 - Computational Linguistics
Papers offered by other Faculties/Departments:
- The language of Italy (MML Paper It.10)
- The Hispanic languages (MML Paper Sp.11)
- History of the German language (MML Paper Ge.11)
- The history of the Russian language (MML Paper SL.8)
- The Romance languages (MML Paper CS.1)
- The Slavonic languages (MML Paper CS.3)
- Celtic Philology (Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic Paper 12)
- Elements of comparative linguistics (Classics Paper E1)
- The Greek language (Classics Paper E2)
- The Latin language (Classics Paper E3)
- Germanic Philology (Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic Paper 11)
- Biological and cognitive psychology (Paper PBS4 of Part II A of the Psychological and Behavioural Sciences Tripos)
- The French language: variation and change (MML Paper Fr.13)
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.
