Graduate Program in English Language and Linguistics
Ph.D. in English: English Language & Linguistics
The PhD in English with a focus on English Language and Linguistics is an advanced research degree. The program assumes that an entering student has a Master’s degree in Applied English Linguistics (or a related field) and has a wide knowledge of linguistics. In particular, entrance into the program presumes courses in the history of English and English dialects, syntax, and phonology.
The degree focus has two major phases: during the first phase, the candidate undertakes course work culminating in the doctoral preliminary examination; during the second phase, the candidate writes the dissertation. The focus is designed to give candidates the skills and the command of materials to do original scholarly work of a high order.
ELL Faculty
Areas of faculty expertise in English Language and Linguistics
- Second and third language acquisition: focus on generative approaches
- Bilingualism and heritage languages: focus on psycholinguistic methods
- Syntax: focus on syntactic variation and register analysis
- Sociolinguistics: focus on dialectology, local and global Englishes
- Phonology: focus on phonological theory and data science for linguists
Meet the ELL faculty who teach in our graduate program