After successfully completing his/her studies the graduate is able to:

• analyse natural language structures at the phonological, morphological, syntactical, and semantical level
• understand general principles of natural languages and comprehend the particular distinctions between them as well
• work with formal and descriptive tools of linguistics, mathematics, and logic

Graduates of this doctoral degree study programme are prepared for further academic careers in philological and linguistic departments of Czech and other universities and academies of science. During their doctoral degree study, students present their research at European and Czech conferences. This gives them the practical soft skill of information packaging, with which they will be able to persuasively present at international forums. During their doctoral degree study programme, students have to teach Bachelor’s and Master’s degree study programme courses, which sharpens their pedagogical skills.

The standard duration of the internal doctoral degree study programme is four years (eight semesters). Students can then continue in the external doctoral degree study programme (or start with an external study programme from the beginning). The student continues in the doctoral degree programme until the doctoral degree thesis is completed. The actual profile and study plan are guaranteed by particular supervisors but every student of the doctoral degree programme has to complete some obligatory courses further specified on our web page, such as philosophy of language. At the end of the doctoral degree study programme, the student writes a doctoral degree thesis which is defended during the doctoral final degree examination.

Every student of the doctoral degree study programme has to present their research at international and Czech linguistic conferences.

Students approach the doctoral degree final state examination after they finish their doctoral degree thesis. During the state doctoral degree examination, students answer at least three topical questions (which they prepare for before the examination). The three questions are given by the head of the study programme committee in cooperation with a supervisor. Students who successfully pass the first part continue with the defence of the doctoral degree thesis. For each doctoral degree thesis, at least two external reviews plus one supervisor review are obligatory.