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MIT Linguistics: Department of Linguistics & Philosophy

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Graduate Program

Required Subjects

All students are normally required to complete the following subjects.

These subjects will normally be taken according to the following schedule:

1st year: Fall

951 Intro to Syntax
961 Intro to Phonology
970 Intro to Semantics
992 Survey of Gen Ling

1st year: Spring

952 Advanced Syntax
962 Advanced Phonology
973 Advanced Semantics
plus one more subject

2nd year

949 Lang Acquisition I
957 Introduction to Linguistic Theory at an Advanced Level

2nd or 3rd year

959 Workshop in Syntax & Semantics*
969 Workshop in Phonology & Morphology*
942 Topics in Grammar of Less familiar Language
956 Topics in Syntax
957 Intro to Ling Theory at an Advanced Level
964 Topics in Phonology
979 Topics in Semantics

* The scheduling of the Syntax-Semantics and Phonology-Morphology workshops may vary from year to year as to which of the two is offered in the Fall term and which in the Spring.