The University of Pavia Doctorate College

Doctorate in Linguistics
School in Humanistic Science

The Doctorate program is developed in consortium with the Universities of Cagliari, Torino, Bergamo, Milano-Bicocca, Bolzano.

 

Research Areas

The Doctorate covers six research areas:

- Applied Linguistics (second language acquisition, computational linguistics, language teaching);

- Linguistic Typology;

- English Linguistics and Translation Studies;

- Historical Linguistics and Indo-European Studies;

- Semantics and Pragmatics of Texts;

- Sociolinguistics.

 

Objectives

This Doctorate is designed to train research students and cultural operators in the research areas listed above. The first year is dedicated to the acquisition of updated knowledge concerning fundamental topics and methodologies not strictly linked to the doctoral student’s field of specialization, such as general linguistics, computational linguistics, applied linguistics and language teaching and learning, as well as short monographic courses on more specific subjects. During the second year, individual research is both deepened and broadened, with a stint of at least six months to be spent abroad. The preparation of the doctoral thesis takes up most of the third year, with constant interaction with supervisors.

This Doctorate is thus designed to provide research students with a training explicitly oriented to highly qualified research activities.

 

Research Projects

Current research within the doctorate program in Linguistics includes:

- cross-linguistic surveys of morpho-syntactic phenomena;

- typologically-oriented analyses of particular phenomena within specific languages or language areas (with special focus on European languages);

Prof. MARINA CHINI
Coordinator of the Doctorate Course in “Linguistics”
Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics
University of Pavia - Corso Strada Nuova, 65
I-27100 Pavia - Italy
tel. +39-0382-984687
E-mail: marina.chigi@unipv.it
http://lettere.unipv.it/diplinguistica/dottorato.php#

For more information:

- diachronic Romance and Indo-European studies;

- studies on Italian as a second language (with special focus on the computational treatment of second language data);

- sub-titling and film translation from English;

- English as a second language;

- semantic and pragmatic studies based on monolingual and parallel text corpora;

- Italian as lingua franca in multilingual immigrant communities.

 

International Projects

The doctorate program in Linguistics offers a number of well-established partnerships with

the following research centers:

- Partner Universities within the Internationalization Program (the final degree is jointly released by the University of Pavia and the two partner universities):

::Universität Erfurt, Germany;

::Freie Universität - Berlin, Germany;

 

- Other research centers:

::University of Malta;

::Université Le Manouba - Tunis;

::Max-Planck Institut für evolutionäre Anthropologie, Leipzig, Germany;

::Université Paris X - Nanterre, France;

::Max-Planck Institut für Psycholinguistik - Nijmegen, The Netherlands;

::Penn State University, Pennsylvania, USA;

::European Science Foundation, Strasbourg, France;

::CSELT-Loquendo, Turin;

::Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, CNR, Pisa.