The research programme in Linguistics gives students the opportunity to specialise in a wide range of linguistic sub-disciplines. In addition, it devotes serious attention to methodological issues. All courses are taught in English or, in the case of language-specific courses, in the given language.

Studying Linguistics at the University of Amsterdam

The University of Amsterdam (UvA) is home to specialists in all the important sub-areas of linguistics. The research programme in Linguistics is coordinated by the Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication (ACLC) and the Institute for Language, Logic and Computation (ILLC). The programme capitalises on this potential by covering a variety of areas, including: research in Creole studies, discourse analysis, functional grammar, generative grammar, language and speech development and pathology, language typology, language variation and change, phonetics, second language acquisition, semantics and sign linguistics.

The University is rich in terms of the languages and language families covered in linguistic research and teaching. Linguistics seminars are taught on Arabic, Dutch (including Dutch as a Second Language), English, French, German, Greek (Classical and modern), Italian, Latin, Romanian, Scandinavian, Slavic and Spanish. A general characteristic of linguistic research at the UvA is the focus on theory formation through the analysis of large data sets.