The Master's programme in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics and Linguistics of Modern Languages aims to provide in-depth knowledge of the various theoretical and methodological aspects of language analysis from both a synchronic and diachronic perspective, as well as the implications of such analysis within the broader framework of cognitive, social and communication sciences. In addition to a general education in the phonetic, morphological, syntactic, semantic and pragmatic aspects of natural languages, students receive specialised training in key areas of theoretical and applied linguistics, such as language change (with a particular focus on Indo-European linguistics), cross-linguistic comparison (linguistic typology and contrastive linguistics), sociolinguistics, the linguistics of specific languages or language families (with a particular focus on English linguistics), computational linguistics, second language learning and teaching, and standard, audiovisual, accessible and specialised translation.