Welcome to the web site of the Department of Linguistics at Potsdam University

Since October 2008, the chairs of the former Institute of Linguistics are part of the Cognitive Science Center of Excellence in the Faculty of Humanities. The degree programs in Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, and Clinical Linguistics are joined in the Department of Linguistics. As an umbrella for the research activities, the cluster "Language" comprises those chairs of the faculty that focus on linguistic topics.

The Institute of Linguistics had been founded in 1993, after the University of Potsdam had been established in 1991. Today, Potsdam has one of the largest Linguistics departments in Germany, covering theory of grammar (including phonology, syntax, semantics), psycho- and neurolinguistics (including language acquisition, language processing), and computational linguistics (theoretical and applied).

The department is located at the university's campus in Golm in buildings 14, 24, and 35 (see campus map).