Comparative Indo-European Linguistics

This Comparative Indo-European Linguistics PhD program from Masaryk University is fit for those serious to study the development of languaes, especially of Indo-European. Preferable it is for such students who want to professionally follow their carrier with the diachronic linguistics.

The Comparative Indo-European Linguistics PhD program from Masaryk University goal is to recognize and understand the diachronic development of languages, primarily Indo-European; to understand structures and trajectories, on which these structures are changing and to acquaint the basic language facts and methodology.

The goals of the study are:

• to acquaint the basic typological and structural properties of the language systems of the old Indo-European languages;
• to acquaint the needed methodology of the diachronic description of languages;
• to apply these methods to analyse a concrete problem (the subject of the Ph.D. thesis)

The Comparative Indo-European Linguistics program at Masaryk University is a possible superstructure either for the M.A. program ‘General linguistics’ (of the same department) or any other concrete philology of a given IE language.

The students follow an individual study plan, framed up by their supervisor and oriented toward a concrete methodological development and linguistic analysis. The study is single-subject only.

Career opportunities:

The study is primarily for those interested in the professional carrier in academics.

After successfully completing his/her studies the graduate is able to:

• both synchronically and diachronically analyze the systems and structures of the Indo-European languages

• apply the chosen method independently

• bring own innovative approach both material and methodological

• to write a paper and publish it, to actively take part on the scientific conferences

• know the history of the methods of the Indo-European linguistics