Indo - European comparative linguistics

Graduates of the Master's programme in Comparative Linguistics acquire the general competences of a humanistically educated intellectual and all the specific competences such as are considered to be fundamental in (historical) comparative linguistics, to an extent comparable to MA programmes in (Indo-European) comparative linguistics at other European universities.

They are capable of rigorous and in-depth scholarly engagement with linguistic material through a methodological approach that enables them to describe linguistic phenomena at the synchronic and typological levels and to understand the principles and dynamics of their development in a given linguistic system over time. They acquire in-depth philological knowledge of several languages of the Indo-European language family from different time periods, combining it with the understanding of the historical grammar of these languages as well as the structural features and developmental tendencies of the Indo-European proto-language itself. This in turn enables them to understand the principles that lead to the diversity of the individual synchronic linguistic peculiarities.

They are qualified for further, scientifically oriented studies in comparative linguistics and for specific tasks in all fields that require theoretical linguistic knowledge and/or specific linguistic competences and a general aptitude for all kinds of work in linguistics, especially for philological work with texts.