ISSUES IN MORPHOLOGY MA SEMINAR SPRING SEMESTER 2009

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Issues in Morphology

MA Seminar, Spring Semester 2009

Time/Place Monday 4.15-5.45, Room B.1.48

Instructor Andrew McIntyre

e-mail: [email protected]

phone: 718 1931

office: 2.E.43

web: www3.unine.ch/andrew.mcintyre

Plan for the course (flexible; may be changed after first week):

Date

Subject

Literature (obligatory if in bold type; otherwise my handouts will be the main source)

1

16.2

Basics of morphology


2

23.2

3

2.3

4

9.3

Inflection

Aronoff/Fudeman ch.6; Haspelmath ch.4,7; Bauer ch.6; Katamba ch.10;

Blevins, J. 2006. English inflection and derivation. In Aarts/MacMahon (eds.) The Handbook of English Linguistics. Blackwell

5

16.3

Compounding

Plag ch.6; Spencer ch.8

6

23.3

Beyond combinatorial processes:

a. Conversion, backformation, etc.

b. Word-based vs. morpheme-based theories of morphology


a. Plag ch.5

b. Plag, section 7.3 (p.179ff); Bauer ch.7; Spencer p.8-20; Aronoff/Fudeman p.46-52; Haspelmath ch.9

7

30.3

Productivity and the lexicon

Plag, I. 2006. Productivity. In Aarts/MacMahon (eds.) The Handbook of English Linguistics. Blackwell;

Aronoff/Fudeman ch.8; Plag ch.3; Bauer ch.5; Katamba ch.4; Spencer/Zwicky ch.11; Booij et al. p.303ff

8

6.4

Level ordering theories and their alternatives

Plag ch.7; Katamba ch.5-7; Bauer ch.10

Hay, J. 2002. From Speech Perception to Morphology: Affix-ordering Revisited. Language 78.3, 2002: 527-555.


13.4

Easter holiday

9

20.4

The morphology-syntax interface

Katamba ch.11

10

27.4

a. Psycholinguistics,

b. Acquisition

Bauer ch.16; Spencer/Zwicky ch.19-22

b. Avram, Larisa. 2005. An Introduction to Language Acquisition from a Generative Perspective. Ch. 5

11

4.5

Historical morphology

Bauer ch.15; Spencer/Zwicky ch.18

12

11.5

Typological issues; natural morphology

Carstairs92:ch5, 8; Bauer ch.13,14; Bubenik sect.10.4; Booij et al. p.288ff

13

18.5



14

25.5

Test



Possible presentation topics: historical morphology; natural morphology, psycholinguistics; the article by Hay cited in week 8.

Assessment

Variant A: Written test (in last week or perhaps later): 70%

In-class presentation (30 minutes give or take): 30%

Variant B: Written test (in last week or perhaps later): 100%


Literature

The sources cited below may be referred to in some of my handouts without the exact source being repeated in the handouts.

The markings mean the following:

- for morphology textbooks. Exceptions are those marked as follows:

# for handbooks/collections of research or overview articles on morphological subjects.

* for empirical overviews of morphological data (Marchand is a goldmine of data involving particular affixes and processes)



* Adams, V. 1973. An Introduction to Modern English Word-Formation. London: Longman.

- Aronoff, M. & Fudeman, K. 2005. What is Morphology? Oxford: Blackwell.

- Bauer, L. 2003. Introducing Linguistic Morphology. 2nd edition. Edinburgh University Press.

- Booij, G. 2007. The Grammar of Words. Oxford University Press.

# Booij, G. et al (eds). 2000. Morphologie : Ein internationales Handbuch zur Flexion und Wortbildung = Morphology: An international handbook on inflection and word formation. Vol 1. Berlin: de Gruyter.

- Bubenik, V. 1999. An introduction to the study of morphology. München: LINCOM.

- Carstairs-McCarthy, A. 1992. Current Morphology. London: Routledge.

- Haspelmath, M. 2002. Understanding Morphology. London: Arnold.

- Jensen, J. 1990. Morphology: Word structure in Generative Grammar. Amsterdam Benjamins.

- Katamba, F. 1993. Morphology. Basingstoke: MacMillan.

* Marchand, H., 1969. The Categories and Types of Present-Day English Word Formation. 2nd ed. Munich: Beck.

- Plag, I. 2003. Word Formation in English. Cambridge University Press.

- Scalise, Sergio (1983). Generative Morphology, Dordrecht, Foris.

- Spencer, A., 1991. Morphological Theory. Oxford: Blackwell.

# Spencer, A, & Zwicky, A. (eds.) 1998. The Handbook of Morphology. London: Blackwell.

# Stekauer, P. & Lieber, R. (eds.) 2005. Handbook of Word Formation. Dordrecht: Springer.



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