1. The Linguistics Tripos shall consist of three Parts: Part I, Part IIa, and Part IIb. There shall be a separate class-list for each Part.
2. A student who has not obtained honours in an Honours Examination may be a candidate for honours in Part I, provided that he or she has kept one term and that three complete terms have not passed after his or her first term of residence.
3. A student who has obtained honours in another Honours Examination may be a candidate for honours in Part IIa,96 in the year after so obtaining honours, provided that he or she has kept four terms and that twelve complete terms have not passed after his or her first term of residence.
4. A student who has obtained honours in Part IIa of the Linguistics Tripos may be a candidate for honours in Part IIb,96 in the year after so obtaining honours, provided that he or she has kept seven terms and that fifteen terms have not passed after his or her first term of residence.
5. No student shall be a candidate for more than one Part, or for one Part and also for another Honours Examination, in the same term.
6. No student who has been a candidate for any Part shall again be a candidate for the same Part.
7. For each Part of the Tripos, the Faculty Board of Modern and Medieval Languages shall nominate such number of Examiners as they think sufficient to conduct the examination, and shall have power to nominate one or more Assessors to assist the Examiners in any of the subjects of the examination. If required to do so, Assessors shall set papers in the subject or subjects assigned to them, shall mark the answers of the candidates in those papers, shall assess dissertations, and shall advise the Examiners on the performance of candidates in the examination. Assessors may be summoned to meetings of the Examiners for the purpose of consultation and advice, but shall not be entitled to vote.
8. The papers set by each Examiner or Assessor shall be submitted to the Chairman of the Examiners and one other Examiner for their approval.
9. The Faculty Board shall have power:
10. Before the end of the Easter Term each year the Faculty Board shall give notice of any variable subjects for the examination to be held in the academical year next but one following; provided that the Board shall have the power of subsequently issuing amendments if they have due reason for doing so and if they are satisfied that no student’s preparation for the examination is adversely affected.
11. In the class-lists for each Part of the Tripos the names of the candidates who obtain honours shall be placed in three classes, of which the second shall be divided into two divisions. The names in the first and third classes, and in each division of the second class, shall be arranged in alphabetical order. For special excellence a mark of distinction may be awarded.
12. The papers for the Linguistics Tripos, which shall be divided into three Groups A–C, shall be as follows:
Paper 1. |
Sounds and words. |
Paper 2. |
Structures and meanings. |
Paper 3. |
Language, brain, and society. |
Paper 4. |
History and varieties of English. |
Paper 5. |
Phonetics. |
Paper 6. |
Foundations of speech communication. |
Paper 7. |
Phonology and morphology. |
Paper 8. |
Syntax. |
Paper 9. |
Semantics and pragmatics. |
Paper 10. |
Historical linguistics (also serves as Paper 15 of Part II of the Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic Tripos). |
Paper 11. |
Linguistic theory. |
Paper 13. |
The language of Italy (Paper It. 10 of the Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos). |
Paper 14. |
The Hispanic languages (Paper Sp. 11 of the Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos). |
Paper 15. |
Aspects of the history of the German language (Paper Ge. 11 of the Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos). |
Paper 16. |
The history of the French language (Paper Fr. 13 of the Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos). |
Paper 17. |
The history of the Russian language (Paper Ru. 9 of the Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos). |
Paper 18. |
The history and structure of modern Greek (Paper Gr. 7 of the Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos). |
Paper 19. |
The Romance languages (Paper CS 1 of the Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos). |
Paper 20. |
The Slavonic languages (Paper CS 3 of the Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos). |
Paper 21. |
Experimental psychology (the subject Experimental Psychology in Part Ib of the Natural Sciences Tripos). |
Paper 22. |
Celtic philology (Paper 12 of Part II of the Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic Tripos). |
Paper 23. |
The Greek language (Paper E2 of Part II of the Classical Tripos). |
Paper 24. |
The Latin language (Paper E3 of Part II of the Classical Tripos). |
Paper 25. |
Germanic philology (Paper 11 of Part II of the Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic Tripos). |
13. A candidate for Part I of the Linguistics Tripos shall offer Papers 1–4.
14. (i) A candidate who takes the examination for Part IIa after obtaining honours in Part I of the Linguistics Tripos shall offer four papers chosen from Papers 5–10, 13–21.
(ii) A candidate who takes the examination for Part IIa in the year next after obtaining honours in another Honours Examination shall offer:
provided that a candidate who has previously offered one or both of Papers 1 and 2 in a previous Honours Examination shall substitute that paper or both papers by either one further paper or two further papers, respectively, chosen from Papers 5–10, 13–21.
15. A candidate who takes the examination for Part IIb shall offer:
16. The following provisions shall apply to a dissertation offered under Regulation 15:
17. The examinations for the Linguistics Tripos shall be held under the New Regulations for the first time
for Part I in 2011,
for Part IIa in 2011,
for Part IIb in 2012.
The examinations for the Linguistics Tripos shall be held under the Old Regulations for the last time in 2011.