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 |
Description of Courses (PDF) |