Issues in Morphology
MA Seminar, Spring Semester 2009
Time/Place Monday 4.15-5.45, Room B.1.48
Instructor
Andrew McIntyre
e-mail:
andrew.mcintyre@unine.ch
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
2
3
4
16.2
23.2
2.3
9.3
Basics of morphology
5
16.3
Compounding
6
23.3
7
30.3
8
6.4
Beyond combinatorial processes:
a. Conversion, backformation, etc.
a. Plag ch.5
b. Word-based vs. morpheme-based b. Plag, section 7.3 (p.179ff); Bauer ch.7;
theories of morphology
Spencer p.8-20; Aronoff/Fudeman p.46-52;
Haspelmath ch.9
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
Level ordering theories and their
Plag ch.7; Katamba ch.5-7; Bauer ch.10
alternatives
Hay, J. 2002. From Speech Perception to
Morphology: Affix-ordering Revisited. Language
78.3, 2002: 527-555.
Easter holiday
The morphology-syntax interface
Katamba ch.11
a. Psycholinguistics,
Bauer ch.16; Spencer/Zwicky ch.19-22
b. Acquisition
b. Avram, Larisa. 2005. An Introduction to
Language Acquisition from a Generative
Perspective. Ch. 5
Historical morphology
Bauer ch.15; Spencer/Zwicky ch.18
Typological issues; natural
Carstairs92:ch5, 8; Bauer ch.13,14; Bubenik
morphology
sect.10.4; Booij et al. p.288ff
13.4
9 20.4
10 27.4
11 4.5
12 11.5
13 18.5
14 25.5
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
Plag ch.6; Spencer ch.8
Test
Possible presentation topics: historical morphology; natural morphology, psycholinguistics;
the article by Hay cited in week 8.
Assessment
Variant A:
Variant B:
Written test (in last week or perhaps later):
In-class presentation (30 minutes give or take):
Written test (in last week or perhaps later):
70%
30%
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.