“Being able to do something seems like a shadow of the actual doing, just as the sense of a sentence seems like the shadow of a fact, and the understanding of an order the shadow of its execution.” ~ Wittgenstein Families of Study: Upon acceptance to the program, students work with advisors to create an individualized curriculum informed by the active comparison of literatures from at least five d
istinct language families. For current students considering the study of an isolate, or a language of ambiguous and/or controversial paternity, petition the PFCS* in consultation with your advisor). Note: French, German, English, Spanish, Italian will not count for credit toward the Families of Study requirement. Basic scholarly reading knowledge of these is assumed. Death Requirement: One literature of study must be primarily in a nonliving or non-Indo-European language. Field Requirement: The doctoral dissertation (though not the master's thesis) is required to incorporate original sociolinguistic or literary anthropological field research in multiple languages of study.
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