Indo - European comparative linguistics

Graduates of the bachelor programme Comparative Linguistics acquire the general competences of a humanistically educated intellectual and the specific competences that are considered to be fundamental in historical comparative linguistics, whose main object of interest and scientific study are the principles and dynamics of the development of language over time with specific focus on the origin and the development of Indo-European languages.

They acquire the specific methodological apparatus that enables them to describe the whole range of linguistic phenomena at the synchronic and typological levels and to understand those phenomena in a diachronic perspective, as well as to interpret and critically evaluate scholarly linguistic literature, not only in the field of historical linguistics, but also general linguistics and the specific linguistic studies of the individual languages or whole language families.

They acquire an in-depth philological knowledge of several languages of the Indo-European language family from different time periods (Vedic, Classical Sanskrit, Hittite, Old Church Slavonic, Ancient Greek, Latin), combining it with the understanding of the historical comparative grammar of these languages, as well as the characteristics and subsequent developmental trends of their common ancestor – Proto-Indo-European. They are qualified for further, scientifically oriented studies in comparative linguistics and for any specific tasks in all fields that require linguistic knowledge, as well as the specific linguistic competences and aptitude for all kinds of work in (historical) linguistics, especially for philological work with texts and in etymological research.