HUMANITIES

Graduate Program in Linguistics

Address : Box 22765, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00931-2765

Telephone : (787) 764-0000, exts. 3389, 3707

E-mail : yorivera@uprrp.edu

DEGREE OFFERED

MA in Linguistics

ASSOCIATED FACULTY

Sunny A. Cabrera Salcedo, PhD, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 1999, Associate Professor Department of Hispanic Studies.
Spanish Lexical Semantics. Spanish Dialectology, General linguistics

Nicholas Faraclas, PhD, University of California-Berkeley, 1989, Associate Professor, Department of English.
Creole Languages, Phonology, Sociolinguistics.

Carmen Hernández , PhD, University of Puerto Rico, 1994, Professor, Department of Hispanic Studies.
Spanish Syntax .

Emily Krasinski , PhD, University of the West Indies, 1989, Professor, Department of English.
Language acquisition; general linguistics; English syntax .

Patrick André Mather, PhD, University of Pittsburg, 2000, Associate Professor, Department of Foreign Languages.
Languages in contact.

Luis Ortiz-López , PhD, University of New Mexico, 1996, Professor, Department of Hispanic Studies.
Sociolinguistics; languages in contact; creolistics .

Nadja Ríos Villarini , PhD, University of Texas-Austin, 2004, Assistant Professor, Department of English.
Anthropological linguistics, applied linguistics.

Yolanda Rivera Castillo , PhD, University of California, Davis, 1994, Professor, Department of English.
Creolistics, phonology, syntax

Marc L. Schnitzer , PhD, University of Rochester, 1971, Professor, Department of English.
Psycholinguistics; phonology (Spanish and English); neurolinguistics .

Alma Simounet , PhD, InterAmerican University of Puerto Rico, 1987, Professor, Department of English.
Ethnolinguistics; languages in contact .

MASTER’S PROGRAM

Requirements for Admission

Besides the general requirements for admission to graduate studies at the Río Piedras Campus, students must have completed 9 credits in Linguistics, or the equivalent, nine (9) credits in a modern language, or the equivalent, and have taken LING 6010 General Linguistics.

Requirements for Graduation

Besides the general requirements for graduation from the Río Piedras Campus, students must complete thirty (30) graduate credits in linguistics, with a maximum of six (6) credit hours in other departments. Students must approve comprehensive exams and write a dissertation as part of graduation requirements.

Program of Study

Program Requirements

Credits

Required Courses

12

LING 6020 Research Methods in Modern Linguistics

3

LING 6040 Phonology

3

LING 6050 Morphosyntax

3

LING 6060 Semantic Theory

3

Elective Courses

18

LING 6920 Comprehensive Examination

0

LING 6895 Thesis for the Master’s Degree

0

LING 6896 Thesis Continued

0

Total Credits

30

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