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JOINT PhD PROGRAM IN LANGUAGE SCIENCES, UNIVERSITIES OF PAVIA AND
BERGAMO


The program focuses on a number of core areas in linguistics, including language typology, historical linguistics, Indo-European linguistics, sociolinguistics, pragmatics, computational linguistics, corpus linguistics, second language teaching, translation studies, linguistics of modern languages, European philologies. The Ph.D. advisory board includes specialists in these areas, both from the universities involved in the program and from other Italian and foreign universities. The program involves three curricula, `General linguistics, language typology, historical linguistics, philological traditions', `Applied linguistics, computational linguistics, and linguistics of modern languages', and `Sociolinguistics and pragmatics'.

Admission to the program is based on two evaluation rounds. Candidates should first submit a research project (which they can change if admitted), as well as their CV and qualifications. These are evaluated by a committe, and successful candidates are admitted to the final evaluation round, which is based on an interview. In addition, they are expected to attend the following three courses (12 hours, 12 credits each), which will be offered to all students of the three cycles within the joint PhD program (XXXIII, XXXIV and XXXV cycle)


General and historical linguistics, language typology

Corpus and computational linguistics

Methods in linguistic analysis

Students are also expected to attend research seminars organized at the participating institutions and spend time at foreign institutions specializing in their research areas.

For further information about the Ph.D. program in general, please contact

Prof. Sonia Cristofaro
Sezione di Linguistica
Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici
Universita' di Pavia
sonia.cristofaro@unipv.it

For information about the admission procedure, please refer to
 
http://www.unipv.eu/site/en/home/research/phd-courses.html

Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici

Università degli Studi di Pavia
Segreteria amministrativa: Piazza Botta, 6 - 27100 Pavia
Segreteria didattica: Corso Strada Nuova, 65 - 27100 Pavia
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