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

March 25, 2025, 3:30pm (University College Room: 2115)

Rob Stainton and Yong Yu (Western University): "Is Register Semantic?" 

March 15, 2025, 09:00am - 5:00pm (Western University, University College Room: 3120)

WISSLR 2025  Keynote Speaker: Nathan Sanders 

March 13, 2025, 3:30pm (University College Room: 2115)

Michael Iannozzi (Western University and Brock University): “We never used to say that!” : Linguistic Atlases & Heritage Languages

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 March 17th, 2025. Abstracts must be submitted online. 

Highlights

WISSLR

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  • Western Interdisciplinary Student Symposium on Language Research

TALL Laboratory

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  • The TALL laboratory provides the electronic and technical infrastructure essential to the pursuit of leading edge linguistics research.