ASIGNATURA: GRAMÁTICA INGLESA I
AÑO ACADÉMICO: 2002-2003
CÓDIGO: 3130301
TITULACIÓN: Licenciatura de Filología Inglesa
CARÁCTER: Troncal
CICLO: 2º
CURSO Y GRUPO: 3º
CRÉDITOS TEÓRICOS Y PRÁCTICOS: 4T 2P
DESCRIPTOR:
DEPARTAMENTO: Filología Inglesa y Alemana
ÁREA DE CONOCIMIENTO: Filología Inglesa
PROFESOR: Dr. D. Francisco Gonzálvez García
1. OBJECTIVES AND METHODOLOGY:
The aim of this course is to provide students with a cursory analysis of central topics in
morphology at both a theoretical and descriptive level in plenary lectures and practice seminars.
Special attention will be drawn to the relationship of morphology to syntax and semantics.The
course will be taught in English. Students will be asked to take active participation in classroom
activities as well as to do some readings on some specific points of the syllabus to be determined
in class.
2. SYLLABUS
UNIT 1: A LOOK AT THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND AND THE STATUS OF
MORPHOLOGY IN LINGUISTICS
1.1.The emergence of Morphology.
1.2. Morphology in American Structural Linguistics.
1.3. The concept of Chomskyan Generative Grammar.
1.3.1. The place of morphology in early generative grammar.
1.3.2. The morphology-phonology interface.
1.3.3. The morphology-syntax interface.
1.4. Towards a definition of Morphology: aims, object of inquiry and status within the
field of Linguistics.
UNIT 2: INTRODUCTION TO WORD-STRUCTURE
2.1. Senses of the concept “word”: the lexeme, word-form, and grammatical word.
2.2. Morphemes: the smallest units of meaning
2.2.1. Morphemes, morphs and allomorphs
2.2.2. Grammatical conditioning, lexical conditioning and suppletion.
2.2.3. The nature of morphemes
2.3. Types of Morphemes:
2.3.1. Roots, Affixes, Stems and Bases, Stem Extenders.
2.3.2. Inflectional and derivational morphemes.
2.3.3. Multiple affixation.
3.3. Branches of Morphology:
3.3.1. Word-formation.
3.3.2. Compounding.
3.3.3. Inflectional Morphology.
UNIT 3: A DESCRIPTIVE CHARACTERIZATION OF THE ENGLISH LEXICON:
3.1. Lexical Derivation
3.2. Conversion.
3.3. Compounding: A taxonomy of compounds in English. Phonological factors in
compounding. Headedness of compounds. The Right-hand Head Rule.
Compounding and derivation.
3.4. Back-formation.
3.5. Other types of word formation: clipping, blending, acronyms, onomatopeia,
reduplication, word manufacture or coinage.
3.6. Productivity in word-formation.
3.6.1. The open-endedness of the Lexicon: productivity, semi-productivity and
creativity.
3.6.2. Constraints on creativity: Blocking.
3.6.3. Potential words. Knowledge of language and the role of the lexicon.
UNIT 4: THE MORPHOLOGY-SYNTAX-PHONOLOGY INTERFACE.
4.1. Lexical Morphology:
4.1.1. Lexical strata and lexical rules.
4.1.2.Insights from Lexical Morphology: Stratum ordering and its relation to
productivity and conversion.
4.1.3. The Strict Cycle condition.
4.1.4. Criticisms of Lexical Phonology.
4.2. Morphological Mapping of Grammatical Functions.
4.2.1. Predicates, arguments and lexical entries.
4.2.2. Theta-roles and lexical entries.
4.2.3. Grammatical Relations.
4.2.4. Grammatical Function Changing Rules: Passive, antipassive, applicative,
causative.
4.2.5. The Mirror Principle.
4.2.6. Incorporation.
3. ASSESSMENT:
There will be a final exam, consisting of two basic types of exercises: (i) definition and
exemplification of concepts, and (ii) grammatical commentary in which the students will asked to
demonstrate their command of the subject at a practical level. The paper is to be written in
English. Gross use-of-English mistakes will be penalized.
4. RECOMMENDED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Adams, Valery. 1973. An Introduction to Modern English Word-Formation. London:
Longman.
Anderson, Stephen. 1981. “Where is Morphology?”. Linguistic Inquiry,13, 571-612.
Anderson, Stephen. 1988. “Morphological Theory”. In Linguistics: The Cambridge Survey. Vol
I. Edited by F. Newmeyer, 146-191. London: Cambridge University Press.
Aronoff, M. 1976. Word Formation in Generative Grammar. Cambridge, Mass.: MITT Press.
Baker, M. 1988. Incorporation: A Theory of Grammatical Function Changing. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press.
Bauer, L. 1983. English Word-Formation. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Bybee, Joan. 1985. Morphology: A Study of the Relation between Meaning and Form.
Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Carstairs-McCarthy, Andrew. 1992. Contemporary Morphology.London: Routledge.
Jackendoff,R. 1976. “Morphological and Semantic Regularities in the Lexicon”. Language 51,
639-671.
Jensen, John. 1990. Morphology: Word Structure in Generative Grammar. New York: Holt,
Rinehart and Winston.
Halle, M. 1973. “Prolegomena to a Theory of Word-Formation”, Linguistic Inquiry, 4,3-16.
Katamba, Francis. 1993. Morphology. London: Macmillan.
Lees, R. 1960. The Grammar of English Nominalizations. The Hague: Mouton.
Lieber, R. 1983. “Argument Linking and Compounding”. Linguistic Inquiry, 14, 251-286.
Matthews, P. 1972. Inflectional Morphology. Cambridge: CUP.
Matthews, P. 1974. Morphology. Cambridge: CUP.
Quirk, R. et al. 1985. A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language. London:Longman.
Roper,T. And Siegel, D. 1978. “A Lexical Transformation for Verbal Compounds”,
Linguistic Inquiry, 9, 199-260.
Scalise, Sergio. 1984. Generative Morphology. Dordrecht: Foris.
Selkirk, E.O. 1982. The Syntax of Words. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
Selkirk, E.O. 1984. Phonology and Syntax: The Relation between Sound and Structure.
Cambridge, Mass.:The MIT Press.
Sells, P. 1985. Lectures on Contemporary Syntactic Theories. California: CSLI.
Spencer, Andrew. 1991. Morphological Theory. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell.
Williams, Edwin. 1981. “Argument Structure and Morphology”. Linguistic Review, 1, 81-114.