The Master’s in Linguistic Theory & Typology (MALTT) offers training in theoretical frameworks for approaching descriptive and sociolinguistic data with a special focus on how grammatical features are distributed across the world’s languages. Emphasis is given to language modeling through computational and quantitative methods. As well as providing invaluable intellectual preparation for doctoral studies in linguistics, the MALTT program prepares students for careers in high-tech industry, text-based consultancies in law and medicine, and jobs in government agencies.

Linguistic Theory & Typology Program at University of Kentucky , the only program of its kind in the Commonwealth, is dedicated to the scientific investigation of human language. In our courses and our research, we examine the formal properties of linguistic systems and the processes by which such systems change over time; we investigate the social dimensions of language variation and the psychological dimensions of language learning and use; and we work to document underdescribed and endangered languages.