Master of Arts in Linguistics (MA Linguistics) is a 2-year program by Tribhuvan University, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.
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Candidates who have completed a Bachelor's degree in any discipline are eligible for the MA in Linguistics, but preference will be given to those candidates who majored in Linguistics in the Bachelor's.
FIRST YEAR
1st Semester
Code | Course Title | Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|
LING 501 | Sounds of language | 3 |
LING 502 | Organization of grammar | 3 |
LING 503 | Meaning in language | 3 |
LING 504 | Language and society | 3 |
LING 505 | Research methodology | 3 |
Total | 15 |
2nd Semester
Code | Course Title | Credit |
|---|---|---|
LING 551 | Advanced phonetics | 3 |
LING 552 | Generative phonology | 3 |
LING 553 | Topics in grammar | 3 |
LING 554 | Generative syntax | 3 |
LING 555 | Language and mind | 3 |
Total | 15 |
SECOND YEAR
3rd Semester
Code | Course Title | Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|
LING 601 | Issues and topics in Nepalese linguistics | 3 |
LING 602 | Philosophy of language | 3 |
LING 603 | Linguistic typology | 3 |
LING 604 | Specialization I (details in Table 3) | 3 |
LING 605 | Specialization II (details in Table 4) | 3 |
Total | 15 |
4th Semester
Code | Course Title | Credit |
|---|---|---|
LING 651 | Field linguistics | 3 |
LING 652 | Historical linguistics I | 3 |
LING 653 | Applied linguistics I (Details in T5) | 3 |
LING 654 | Applied linguistics II (Details in T6) | 3 |
LING 655 | Dissertation | 6 |
Total | 18 |
Code | Course Title | Credit |
|---|---|---|
LING 604-1 | Functional-typological approach to grammar | 3 |
LING 604-2 | Role and reference grammar | 3 |
LING 604-3 | Cognitive linguistics | 3 |
LING 604-4 | Lexical-functional grammar | 3 |
LING 604-5 | Minimalist program | 3 |
LING 604-6 | Functional grammar | 3 |
LING 604-7 | Computational linguistics | 3 |
LING 604-8 | Corpus linguistics | 3 |
LING 604-9 | Mathematical linguistics | 3 |
Code | Course Title | Credit |
|---|---|---|
LING 605-1 | Anthropological linguistics | 3 |
LING 605-2 | Neurolinguistics | 3 |
LING 605-3 | Cognitive science | 3 |
LING 605-4 | First language acquisition | 3 |
LING 605-5 | Language and media | 3 |
LING 605-6 | Multilingualism | 3 |
LING 605-7 | Language contact | 3 |
LING 605-8 | Indo-Aryan and Tibeto-Burman linguistics | 3 |
LING 605-9 | Writing system | 3 |
LING 605-10 | Second language linguistics | 3 |
LING 605-11 | Sign language linguistics | 3 |
LING 605-12 | Spoken-multimodal linguistics | 3 |
LING 605-13 | Ethnolinguistics | 3 |
LING 605-14 | Language and location of language | 3 |
LING 605-15 | Evolution of language | 3 |
LING 605-16 | Second language acquisition | 3 |
LING 605-17 | Intercultural communication | 3 |
LING 605-18 | Language and discourse | 3 |
LING 605-19 | Indigenous language and linguistics | 3 |
Code | Course Title | Credit |
|---|---|---|
LING 653-1 | Language documentation | 3 |
LING 653-2 | Language policy and planning | 3 |
LING 653-3 | Educational linguistics | 3 |
LING 653-4 | Lexicography | 3 |
LING 653-5 | Sociophonetics | 3 |
LING 653-6 | Stylistics | 3 |
LING 653-7 | Language revitalization | 3 |
Code | Course Title | Credit |
|---|---|---|
LING 654-1 | Translation studies | 3 |
LING 654-2 | Language-in-education (LiE) in Nepal | 3 |
LING 654-3 | Literacy | 3 |
LING 654-4 | Language and tourism | 3 |
LING 654-5 | Language rights and linguistic justice | 3 |
LING 654-6 | Language teaching | 3 |
Understand core areas: phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics
Study language structure and function
Analyze language variation and change
Explore sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics
Learn research methods in linguistics
Examine language acquisition and teaching
Develop skills in linguistic analysis and documentation
Apply linguistics in translation, AI, and communication
Conduct independent linguistic research
Prepare for careers in academia, research, and language technology
Master of Arts in Linguistics in Tribhuvan University is two-year program consisting of four semesters. It is 63 credit hours program which includes nineteen courses each of three credit hours and a dissertation weighing six credit hours. One credit hour equals to sixteen teaching hours. The designed courses are interdisciplinary and have conceived various theoretical traditions and applied fields.
On completion of courses for MA in Linguistics, the students are expected to develop expertise in various fields of linguistics, ability to analyze languages at different levels, use their knowledge in various practical fields such as language teaching, language documentation, translation, lexicography, language policy and planning, language revitalization, etc. Considering the multilingual reality of the country, as the courses have accommodated research-based studies, it aims to prepare the graduates who will fulfill the manpower demands to solve various language related problems in the market and in the society at large.
