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  • Qualification

    PhD/DPhil - Doctor of Philosophy

  • Location

    The University of Manchester

  • Study mode

    Full time

  • Start date

    01-SEP-25

  • Duration

    36 months

Course summary

Our PhD Linguistics programme enables you to carry out research in a field of linguistics that matches the interests of one of our members of staff. The Department of Linguistics and English Language is an international centre for Linguistics, with 22 full-time members of staff and approximately 35 postgraduate research students. We are virtually unique in the UK and beyond in the breadth of subject areas and theoretical approaches represented by our members, many of whom are internationally renowned scholars in their specialisms. Our academics' areas of expertise include: phonetics and phonology morphology syntax (lexical-functional grammar, role and reference grammar, construction grammar, and minimalism) (formal) semantics pragmatics historical linguistics dialectology the linguistics of English language contact variationist sociolinguistics child language acquisition field linguistics and language documentation typology quantitative corpus-based approaches forensic linguistics. In our research, we combine the advancement of theoretical approaches with a strong concern for their empirical and methodological foundations. Each member of staff also has a special interest in particular languages and language families, including major European languages, as well as lesser known languages of Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, and Australia.

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£ 21,500per year

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University information

University of Manchester

  • University League Table

    28th

  • Campus address

    The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PL, England

Subject rankings

  • Subject ranking

    11th out of 25 2

  • Entry standards

    / Max 204
    154 76%

    9th

  • Graduate prospects

    / Max 100
    62.0 62%

    15th

    1
  • Student satisfaction

    / Max 4
    3.05 76%

    21st

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