Comparative-Historical Linguistics
45.03.02 In English and Russian
Level of education Bachelor
Type of instruction Full-time
Duration 4 years
- The bachelor's programme ‘Comparative-Historical Linguistics (English)’ is implemented within the framework of scholarly traditions. It is designed to train experts in comparative-historical Indo-European linguistics
- Along with the study of various aspects of general and comparative-historical linguistics, students receive in-depth knowledge of four ancient languages (Old Church Slavonic, Ancient Greek, Latin and Old Indian) and three modern languages
- The programme is interdisciplinary and combines knowledge of current areas of diachronic linguistics, philology and related humanitarian disciplines: history, archaeology, and ethnography
- The programme is designed to develop skills of independent research. It prepares students for professional academic and research activities in a wide range of areas of contemporary humanities knowledge
- For successful training on the academic programme, applicants must know English at the level not lower than B1+ CEFR
- Introduction to General Linguistics
- Theoretical Phonetics and Phonology
- Theoretical Morphology
- Theoretical Syntax
- Ancient Greek
- Latin
- Old Church Slavonic
- Old Indian
- Fundamentals of Comparative and Historical Study of Indo-European Languages
- Fundamentals of Diachronic Linguistics
- History of Latin
- History of Ancient Greek
- History of Old Indian
- Indo-European Languages
- Key Issues in Language Reconstruction
The bachelor’s programme "Comparative-Historical Linguistics (English)" is implemented within the framework of scholarly traditions. It is designed to train experts in comparative-historical Indo-European linguistics. Along with the study of various aspects of general and comparative-historical linguistics, students receive in-depth knowledge of four ancient languages (Old Church Slavonic, Ancient Greek, Latin and Old Indian) and three modern languages. The programme is interdisciplinary and combines knowledge of current areas of diachronic linguistics, philology and related humanitarian disciplines: history, archaeology, and ethnography.
Graduates of the programme are characterised by:
- Fluency in at least two living languages and philological proficiency in three dead languages;
- Command of various methods of linguistic analysis in the field of theoretical and experimental linguistics, methodological foundations of teaching foreign languages, and the skills of research work in linguistic fields
- Leiden University (the Netherlands)
- Complutense University of Madrid (Spain)
- Sapienza University of Rome (Italy)
- University of Marburg (Germany)
- Julius-Maximilians-Universität of Würzburg (Germany)
- University of Copenhagen (Denmark)
- Boston University (the USA)
- The Sorbonne (Paris, France)
- Institute of the Lithuanian Language (Vilnius, Lithuania)
- Ghent University (Belgium)
- Brno University (the Czech Republic)
- University of Pavia (Italy)
Practices at
- Gymnasium No 610 of the Petrogradsky District of St Petersburg
Professions
- Research associate University lecturer
- School teacher
- Translator/interpreter