Students in linguistics do not study a specific language, such as English or French, nor is it entirely clear which profession they will have after their studies, but then, what is the content of the study linguistics, and what can you become after completion of the study?
The object of the study linguistics is language in general. Around the world, people speak between 3000 and 6000 different languages. What is it that these languages have in common, and what is it that differentiates them? Each language is a very complicated system with thousands and thousands of words, and many difficu