What are the admission criteria for the PhD program?
If you wish to continue with a PhD in Linguistics, it is important to understand that completing your MA degree here does not guarantee your admission to the PhD program. The job market for PhDs in Linguistics has historically always been very tight, and the faculty feels it is not doing anyone a service by admitting them to the PhD program if they are not really cut out for it. This mainly means that one has to be an independent, internally-motivated worker, with not only a strong talent for the field but also that fairly rare ability to generate novel research ideas and carry them out in a reasonable amount of time. Thus, performance on the MA thesis is an important criterion. The Graduate Program Coordinator will ask your MA thesis supervisor to advise the faculty on how you did as an independent researcher. Other faculty will also chime in about your performance in their classes, in research, as a TA, etc. It is also necessary for you to get strong support from your supervisor-to-b
