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2025-2026 / Master

Linguistics, research focus

120 crédits
Master in linguistics, research focus
P2ALAN01

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  • Organization
  • Theory
  • Practical
  • Others
  • Credits

Block 1

Core curriculum compulsory courses
CodeDetailsOrganizationTheoryPracticalOthersCredits
Philosophy of language
Bruno Leclercq
Q230--5
Phonetics and phonology
Laurent Rasier
Q130--5
Issues in general linguistics
Nicolas Mazziotta
Q21515-5
Semantics: selected topics (including topics of discourse analysis) (english language)
Raymond Echitchi, Julien Perrez
Q130--5
Practical issues
Sémir Badir
Q130--5
Lexicology and Lexicography
Marie-Guy Boutier
Q130--5
Seminar : methods in contemporary linguistics - [20h Seminar]
Nicolas Mazziotta, Stéphane Polis, An Van Linden
TA--[+]5

Common core courses

Choose courses totalling 10 credits out of the following :
CodeDetailsOrganizationTheoryPracticalOthersCredits
Arab I
Frédéric Bauden, Elise Franssen
TA3030-10
Akkadian (Assyro-Babylonian) I*
Laurent Colonna d'Istria
TA3030-10
Egyptian 1*
Emil Joubert, Stéphane Polis
TA60--10
Sanskrit 1*
Philippe Swennen
TA60--10
Greek language ITA   10
Core curriculum
Gabriel Nocchi Macedo
 3030- 
Supplement
Bruno Rochette
 30-- 
Comparative method in linguistics, German-French
Céline Letawe - Suppl : Vera Höltschi
Q130--5
Comparative method in linguistics, Dutch-French
Laurent Rasier
Q130--5
Comparative linguistics Spanish-French (spanish language)
Anne-Cécile Druet - Suppl : Nicolas Licata
Q130--5
Comparative method in linguistics, English-French (english language)
Marie Herbillon - Suppl : Laura Gerday
Q130--5

Focus optional courses

Choose one module from :
CodeDetailsOrganizationTheoryPracticalOthersCredits

Language, cognition, acquisition
CodeDetailsOrganizationTheoryPracticalOthersCredits
Psychology of cognition and language - part 2
Christel Devue, Martine Poncelet
Q240--5
Oral language acquisition
Elise Brassart, Christelle Maillart - Suppl : Sandrine Leroy
Q230--5
Psycholinguistics and speech therapy in bilingualism and multilingualism
Annick Comblain
Q230--5
Psychology of cognition and language Part I
Christel Devue, Martine Poncelet
Q230--5
Linguistics as applied to language learning and acquisition
Laurent Rasier
Q130--5

Semiotics
CodeDetailsOrganizationTheoryPracticalOthersCredits
Interdisciplinary seminar on the quantitative and qualitative epistemology of archives - [20h Seminar]
Sémir Badir, Maria Giulia Dondero, François Provenzano
TA--[+]10
Textual semiotics
Sémir Badir
Q130--5
Visual semiotics
Maria Giulia Dondero
Q130--5
Questions of rhetoric and semiology
François Provenzano
Q230--5

Block 2

Core curriculum compulsory courses
CodeDetailsOrganizationTheoryPracticalOthersCredits
Issues in sociolinguistics
François Provenzano
TA1515-5
English diachronic linguistics: An introduction to grammaticalization (english language)
Lieselotte Brems
Q230--5
Final work
Stéphane Polis
TA---30

Common core courses

Choisir un cours pour un total de 5 crédits parmi :
CodeDetailsOrganizationTheoryPracticalOthersCredits
Issues in romance linguistics
Marie-Guy Boutier
Q230--5
Walloon dialectology
Marie-Guy Boutier
TA30--5

Focus compulsory courses
CodeDetailsOrganizationTheoryPracticalOthersCredits
Seminar: methodological issues in contemporary linguistics - [20h Seminar]
Nicolas Mazziotta, Julien Perrez, Laurent Rasier, Philippe Swennen
TA--[+]5

Focus optional courses

Poursuivre le choix de module
CodeDetailsOrganizationTheoryPracticalOthersCredits

Language, cognition, acquisition
CodeDetailsOrganizationTheoryPracticalOthersCredits
Psychology of cognition and language - part 2
Christel Devue, Martine Poncelet
Q240--5
Oral language acquisition
Elise Brassart, Christelle Maillart - Suppl : Sandrine Leroy
Q230--5
Psycholinguistics and speech therapy in bilingualism and multilingualism
Annick Comblain
Q230--5
Psychology of cognition and language Part I
Christel Devue, Martine Poncelet
Q230--5
Linguistics as applied to language learning and acquisition
Laurent Rasier
Q130--5

Semiotics
CodeDetailsOrganizationTheoryPracticalOthersCredits
Interdisciplinary seminar on the quantitative and qualitative epistemology of archives - [20h Seminar]
Sémir Badir, Maria Giulia Dondero, François Provenzano
TA--[+]10
Textual semiotics
Sémir Badir
Q130--5
Visual semiotics
Maria Giulia Dondero
Q130--5
Questions of rhetoric and semiology
François Provenzano
Q230--5

Bloc d'aménagement du programme de l'année

Bridging courses Master in linguistics (120 credits)
CodeDetailsOrganizationTheoryPracticalOthersCredits

Compulsory courses
CodeDetailsOrganizationTheoryPracticalOthersCredits
Introduction to general linguistics and semiology
Julien Perrez, François Provenzano
Q130--5
Introduction to the great Western literatures
Laurent Demoulin
Q130--5
Introduction to the philosophy of language*
Bruno Leclercq
Q130--5
Introduction to historical criticism
Philippe Raxhon
Q230--5
The typology of languages and language universals*
Julien Perrez, Laurent Rasier
Q130--5
French synchronic linguistics
Nicolas Mazziotta
TA1515-5

Optional courses

Choose one language course from the following :
CodeDetailsOrganizationTheoryPracticalOthersCredits
Spanish I (spanish language)
Vanessa Casanova Romero, Kristine Vanden Berghe
TA3060-10
Italian I (italian language) TA   10
Theory
Hélène Miesse
 30-- 
Practice
Hélène Miesse, Guido Scaravilli
 -60- 
German Language 1
Louis Gerrekens
TA3060-10
English Language 1 (english language)
An Van Linden
TA3060-10
Dutch Language 1 (dutch language)
Laurent Rasier
TA3060-10
Japanese language I (beginners)*
Andreas Thele
TA3030-10

Choose courses totalling 20 credits out of the following :
CodeDetailsOrganizationTheoryPracticalOthersCredits
Syntactic modelling of French
Nicolas Mazziotta
Q12010-5
History of Romance languages, Common
Nicolas Mazziotta
Q230--5
Sociolinguistics*
François Provenzano
Q22010-5
Comparative grammar of Indo-European languages*
Philippe Swennen
Q230--5
Logic and analysis of reasoning
Bruno Leclercq
Q145--5