Department of Linguistics

Established in 1985, the Department of Linguistics has emerged as a centre of excellence in teaching and research. The department offers M.A. and Ph.D. programmes and is actively engaged in advanced research across multiple domains of linguistics.
In addition to academics, the department contributes to society through extension activities such as tribal literacy, adult education, and teacher training programmes. The M.A. Linguistics programme is uniquely designed, integrating core and Applied Linguistics with interdisciplinary supportive courses that attract students from diverse academic backgrounds.

Vision

To impart technical expertise in understanding the systems of languages in general, and Dravidian and tribal languages in particular.

Mission

• To develop analytical and research skills in linguistics
• To enable students to write grammars and analyze languages scientifically
• To support language teaching, learning, and evaluation
• To apply linguistic knowledge across disciplines
• To promote theoretical and applied linguistic research

The Department got the UGC Special Assistance Programme (UGC-SAP-DRS ) and completed two Phases. The focus of the SAP is on language and culture of the indigenous people inherited in the Western Ghats. The department has been crowned with a unique honor by obtaining the Endangered Languages Scheme from the UGC, New Delhi. The Department has got two major research projects from RUSA 2.0. The first project deals with empowering Tribal People of Western Ghats. The second project deals with Developing a Trilingual E- Dictionary for Tribal Languages. The Department made a tie-up with the University of Malaya – Malaysia, for arranging out-bound programme to the Linguistics students of the University of Malaya. So far, 5 batches of students from Malaysia had undergone linguistics training from our faculty members as well as from the prominent linguists of India

The department focuses on diverse areas of linguistic research, including:

• Sociolinguistics 
• Psycholinguistics 
• Neurolinguistics 
• Computational Linguistics 
• Semantics(semantic AI)
• Language Teaching 
• Language and Communication 
• Translation Studies 
• Lexicography 
• Dialectology 
• Forensic Linguistics 
• Clinical Linguistics 
• Tribal studies 
• Ethnolinguistics 
• Natural language Processing
• Cognitive linguistics
• Anthropological linguistics
• Corpus linguistics
• Endangered language documentation 
• Ecolinguistics
• Neurolinguistic programming

• Celebrated Ruby Jubilee (40 Years) of academic excellence
• Completed two phases of UGC-SAP-DRS II Programme
• Recognized under the UGC Endangered Languages Scheme
• Academic collaboration with the University of Malaya
• Regularly organizes international conferences, workshops, and orientation programmes

The department continues to be a dynamic hub for linguistic scholarship and academic innovation.

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