Re: OT: Colleges and linguishtics and philology, oh my!

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# --- Christopher B Wright <faceloran@...> wrote:
#
# > Anyway, I'm planning on going to the University of
# > Rochester (in New
# > York, in the USA) for linguistics. I was wondering
# > if there are better
# > schools to go to. I've heard that some Canadian
# > schools have good
# > linguistics programs.
#
# Not sure if this is of much use, but I've "heard" that
# the University of Pittsburgh and Ohio State University
# (both in the US) offer very sound programs in
# linguistics as well as specific languages - Japanese
# being one of them.

The linguistics program at U of Pitt is infact fairly good
(I'm a recent grad from there). Though they are really geared
to Applied Linguistics (Second Language Acquisition), and Native
American Languages. Not big on Comparative or Historical Linguistics.
(Though there is a Faculty member in the Anthropology dept. who does
Historical Linguistics)

Pitt does have a wide selection of languages, though. Through
various language departments and the Less-Commonly Taught Languages
Center. I was able to take a year of both Hungarian and Slovak, and
probably would have taken more If I didn't have to graduate. :)

-tim

http://www.zece.com/conlang/