The papers listed below are available to students taking the Linguistics Tripos during 2024-25. 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, brains and machines
- Li4 - Linguistic variation and change
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 - PhonologyÌýand Morphology
- Li8 - MorphologyÌý
- Li9 - Syntax
- Li10 - Semantics and pragmatics
- Li11 - Historical LinguisticsÌý(runs on alternate years with Li13:ÌýrunningÌýin 2024-25)
- Li12 -ÌýHistory of Ideas on LanguageÌý(suspendedÌýin 2024-25)
- Li13 - History of the English LanguageÌý(runs on alternate years with Li11: suspendedÌýin 2023-24)
- Li14 - History of the French languageÌý(suspendedÌýin 2023-24)
- Li15 - First and second language acquisition
- Li16 - Language Learning and Cognition
- Li17 -ÌýLanguage Typology and Cognition
- Li18 - Computational Linguistics
- The Language of Italy( Paper It.10 of the MML Tripos)
- Ìý (Paper Sp.11 of the MML Tripos)
- German: A Linguistics Introduction (Paper Ge.7 of the MML Tripos)
- The Romance Languages (Paper CS1 of the MML Tripos)
- (Paper 12 of the ASNC Tripos Part II)
- (Paper E1 of Part II the Classics Tripos)
- (Paper E2 of Part II of the Classics Tripos)
- (Paper E3 of Part II of the Classics Tripos)
- (Paper 11 of Part II of the ASNC Tripos)
- The French Language: Variation and Change (Paper Fr. 13 of Part II of the MML Tripos)
- Structure and varieties of Italian (Paper It. 2 of the MML Tripos)
- History of the RussianÌýlanguage (Paper Sl. 8 of the MML Tripos)
- (Paper MES.41 of the Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Tripos)
- (Paper C.19 of the Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Tripos)
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.