The Linguistics degree program in Bern consists of a combination of courses in General Linguistics and Historical Linguistics, whereby one of the two disciplines must be selected as a special area. Depending on the special area, one or more (non-)Indo-European languages will be learned. Linguistics covers all areas of human language(s), from structure and history to relationships (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, language change, typology, reconstruction, areal linguistics), from meaning to usage to social anchoring (semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics).
