What we are...

ACTL is a graduate school in theoretical linguistics. We organise and coordinate a generic training program for PhD students in Linguistics [current 11-12 program]. ACTL is aimed primarily – but not exclusively – at graduate students in the South-East. The school was founded in 2004 with a two-year start-up grant from the AHRC, but is now jointly funded by Cambridge, Oxford University, the University of Essex, Queen Mary University of London, SOAS and UCL. The financial support of these institutions is hereby gratefully acknowledged.

Our program for 2011-2012 will consist of courses in syntax, semantics, and phonology. The program is split into two halves. There are classes of a somewhat more introductury nature in term 1, where each one and a half hour lecture is complemented by a one-hour tutorial taught a week later. The classes in term 2 are more advanced and will be delivered seminar style, with opportunitities for open-ended discussion and questions. All of term 2 focuses on issues arising in the acquisition of phonology, syntax and semantics/pragmatics respectively.

PhD students wishing to participate register for the full program and undertake to attend all lectures and tutorials. Students should expect to have to devote 24 full days to the ACTL course. Of these, 12 are spent going to classes and a further 12 on reading and exercises. The course is evaluated on a pass/fail basis through continuous assessment and students are sent a transcript on successful completion of the course.

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Our seventh series of lectures and tutorials will be offered during the autumn and spring terms of 2011-2012.

At the following link you can take a look at the program. More information about course details, slides, etc. will be published here as they become available.

We are open for registration. [more details...]

TA positions with ACTL

Are you an advanced research student and interested in teach ACTL tutorials? ACTL maintain a pool of interested students from which TAs are selected on an an "as and when required" basis. [more details...]