Department of Linguistics

The Department of Linguistics was established in the year 1985. Since its inception, the department is successfully doing higher researches and offering courses leading to M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D degrees. In addition to these, the Department has taken up academic extension activities in the socially relevant areas such as tribal literacy, adult literacy, teacher training, etc. M.A.Linguistics programme offered by the Department is quite innovative in the sense that it includes both core and Applied Linguistics Subjects. Besides that, it offers certain unique supportive papers which attract students from science disciplines.

It is a vibrant centre of research and teaching with 5 faculty members, 48 post graduate students, and 23 Ph.D. scholars. The department is committed to diversity of Linguistic phenomena through different modes of inquiry and takes up researches on the Structure and Meaning of Language, Acquisition of Language, Use of Language in Context and Computational Modes of Language. The department has a wide range of language studies with diverse topics and the scope of active research and teaching is broad.

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 has, so far, published 42 books, and 3 monographs. The Department has so far produced 110 Ph.D. Scholars and 50 M.Phil. Scholars. The Department has been publishing an international peer reviewed journal recognized by UGC-CARE every year. The ‘Telugu Chair’ established in the department for studying Telugu Language has produced a number of research works on the Telugu minorities of Kongu region. The faculty members of the Department have so far worked on around 30 Major Research Projects availing the financial support from various funding agencies like UGC,ISSR,DAE,CIIL, ICSSR, RUSA, etc. An audio teaching aid for teaching Tamil to tribal children has been produced by the department. The Department has been regularly conducting seminars/conferences/workshops on various aspects of Linguistics. It has so far conducted 100 plus academic festivities. Orientation programmes for the language teachers of Government Schools of Coimbatore region organized by the department in the regular interval.

The Department has been regularly providing a platform in the name of Research Circle for aspiring linguists of the Department to articulate their research findings publicly. Moreover, each student is given practicum for doing linguistics. The Department has produced a Vice-Chancellor and the faculty members worked and working in this Department have got linguistic training at International level.

Mentor Professors of the Department