Linguistics at Western University

Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. The focus of research and teaching in the linguistics program at Western is on theoretical and applied linguistics, bringing together an inter-faculty group of researchers for a truly interdisciplinary approach to the discipline. Learn More

Undergraduate

The inter-faculty Program in Linguistics allows Western students from any Faculty to study Linguistics either on its own or in combination with another subject.

Graduate

The M.A. Program can be summed up in terms of Linguistics at Western not as formal, nor social, nor applied, but as all of these: the humanistic and scientific study of language as an abstract system of symbols that is known and used.

News and Events

Intent to register: March 1st to April 2nd, 2025

Visit our webpage for more information

July 16-18, 2025

The 2025 LACUS Annual Conference will be held from July 16-18, 2025 at Western University and will be hosted by the Department of French Studies.

Final abstract submission deadline is February 28th, 2025. Abstracts must be submitted online.

January 30, 2025

Please join us on Thursday January 30 at 3:30 pm in UC 2115, for a panel discussion with:

Sakina Raza, graduated in 2024 from Linguistics Honors Specialization, currently studying Speech-Language Pathology at Western.

Taylor Jamieson, graduated in 2023 with a Linguistics Major, currently an MA student in Western's Linguistics Graduate Program.

Nerissa Taylor, graduated from Western with a BA in French Language and Linguistics (2009), took an MA in Linguistics at Western (2011) and then became a fully bilingual (French-English) Speech-Language Pathologist (2013), registered with the College of Audiologists and Speech Language Pathologists of Ontario. She is the Manager for the Virtual Care Program at London Health Sciences Centre and works clinically in private practice and at Stratford General Hospital.

January 29, 2025

Professor Jacques Lamarche will present “A Grammar that is Logic and Formal, but is not Formal Semantics nor Generative Grammar” as part of the Law and Language talk series. The event will take place on January 29th, from 4:00 to 5:30 PM (EST) via Zoom.

Register here: Zoom Registration Link

For more details about upcoming events, visit the Law and Language website