HS "Morphology and word-formation"
Magnus Huber, Thu 16:00–18:00, Room B 9
Term Plan
Introduction
20.04. Formalities, course outline
First introduction: Morphology and word-formation
27.04. Overview: Morphology and word-formation
04.05.   1 "Basic concepts"
  2 “Studying complex words”
11.05.   3 “Productivity and the mental lexicon”
18.05.   4 “Affixation”
25.05. Ascension Day
01.06.   5 “Derivation without affixation”
08.06.   6 “Compounding”
 Morphology in earlier stages of English: Old English
15.06. Corpus Christi
22.06.   7 “Theoretical issues: modeling and word-formation”
 Morphology in earlier stages of English: Middle English
29.06.  Morphology in varieties of English: dialects
 Morphology in varieties of English: sociolects
06.07.  Morphology in varieties of English: pidgins and creoles
 Morphology in context: language acquisition
13.07.  Morphology in context: typology
 Morphology in context: contrastive linguistics
20.07. Final exam (in A2)
Office hours: Tue 16-18
e-mail: magnus.huber@anglistik.uni-giessen.de
 Required Reading: Plag, Ingo. 2003. Word-formation in English. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.
Selected literature
Adams, Valerie. 2001. Complex words in English. Harlow: Longman.
Anderson, Stephen R. 1992. A-morphous morphology. Cambridge University Press.
Aronoff, Mark Malden. 2005. What is morphology? MA: Blackwell.
Bammesberger, Alfred. 1984. A sketch of diachronic English morphology. Regensburg:
Friedrich Pustet.
Bauer, Laurie. 2004. A glossary of morphology. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Bauer, Laurie. 2001. Morphological productivity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Bauer, Laurie. 20032. Introducing linguistic morphology. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University
Press.
Bauer, Laurie. 1983. English word-formation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Booij, Geert. 2005. The Grammar of words: an introduction to linguistic morphology.
Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Bybee, Joan. 1985. Morphology. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Bybee, Joan L. 1985. Morphology: a study of the relation between meaning and form.
Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Comrie, Bernard. 19892. Language universals and linguistic typology : syntax and
morphology. Oxford: Blackwell.
Faiß, Klaus. 1992. English historical morphology and word-formation. Trier:
Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier.
Haspelmath, Martin. 2002. Understanding morphology. London: Arnold.
Jensen, John T. 1990. Morphology: word structure in generative grammar. Amsterdam:
Benjamins.
Katamba, Francis. 1993. Morphology. Basingstoke: Macmillan.
Matthews, P.H. (1974) 19912. Morphology. An introduction to the theory of word-structure.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Plag, Ingo. 2003. Word-formation in English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Plag, Ingo. 1999. Morphological productivity. Structural constraints in English derivation.
Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Spencer, Andrew. 1991. Morphological theory. An introduction to word structure in
generative grammar. Oxford: Blackwell.
Spencer, Andrew and Arnold M. Zwicky (eds.). 1998. The handbook of morphology. Oxford:
Blackwell.
Stockwell, Robert and Donka Minkova. 2001. English words: history and structure.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.