PRIL · Syllabus
PRIL Syllabus 2027 — every subject & topic
PRIL syllabus: 8 subjects (Phonology and Phonetics, Morphology, Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics, Numeral Systems and 3 more) and 29 topics. Official syllabus and notification: ltrc.iiit.ac.in.
The complete Panini Linguistics Olympiad syllabus: 8 subjects, 29 topics. Study notes for this exam are not published yet; every topic is listed so you can see the whole syllabus. Practise by topic in a topic-wise mock →
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Phonology and Phonetics
- Sound Inventories
- Phonological Alternations
- Phonetic Transcription
- Stress and Tone
Morphology
- Affixation Patterns
- Agglutinative Morphology
- Fusional and Templatic Morphology
- Case and Agreement
- Verb Paradigms
- Kinship Systems
Syntax
- Word Order
- Alignment Systems
- Questions and Negation
- Embedded Clauses
- Sentence-Translation Matching
Semantics and Pragmatics
- Lexical Semantics
- Deixis and Reference
- Compositional Meaning
Numeral Systems
- Bases (Decimal, Vigesimal, etc.)
- Numeral Composition Rules
- Large Numbers and Counting
Writing Systems and Transliteration
- Alphabets and Abjads
- Abugidas and Syllabaries
- Logographic Scripts
- Transliteration Tasks
Historical and Comparative Linguistics
- Cognate Identification
- Regular Sound Change
Computational and Formal Linguistics
- Formal Rule Inference
- Ambiguity and Parsing
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