Linguistics

Department of Linguistics

College of Arts and Sciences
609 Baldy Hall
North Campus
Buffalo, NY 14260-1030

Phone: 716.645.2177
Fax: 716.645.3825
Web: linguistics.buffalo.edu

Undergraduate Catalog: http://undergrad-catalog.buffalo.edu/academicprograms/lin.shtml

About Linguistics at UB

The University at Buffalo's Linguistics department offers a comprehensive program covering the major areas of linguistics: phonetics, phonology, morphology, semantics, syntax, and discourse/pragmatics. Our courses focus on the interface between language and cognition, language and society, empirically grounded linguistic theory, and both cross-linguistic studies and in-depth studies of individual languages other than English. Faculty research areas emphasize semantics, Native American Languages, linguistic theory, adult and developmental psycholinguistics, typology and universals, computational linguistics, and sociolinguistics. Department resources include a computational linguistics research laboratory, a phonetics laboratory, and a linguistics library.

The Linguistics department also houses the programs in German, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Polish, and Russian, as well as the World Languages Program. Through the latter, students may study a broad range of less frequently taught languages such as ASL, Arabic, Danish, Modern Greek, Hindi, Irish, Thai, and Ukranian.

Degrees Offered

Undergraduate: B.A., Minor
Concentrations: Applied Linguistics; Language, Society, and Communication; Language and Cognition
Combined: B.A. (Applied)/Ed.M. (English for speakers of other languages)
Graduate: M.A., Ph.D.
Concentrations (M.A.): General Linguistics, Germanic Linguistics, Sociolinguistics and Contact Linguistics