MORPHOLOGY
構詞學
Spring 2008 Tuesday 9:10-12:00 文學院413
UPDATED 2008/4/8
Teachers:
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James Myers (麥傑) [JM] 文學院247 x31506 Lngmyers at ccu dot edu dot tw www.ccunix.ccu.edu.tw/~lngmyers/ Office hours: Wed. 3-5 pm |
Niina Zhang (张宁) [NZ] 文學院243 x 31505 Lngnz at ccu dot edu dot tw Office hours: Tues. 3-5 pm |
Goals:
This course offers a general introduction to morphological data, analysis, and theory, based on a wide range of morphological patterns in a variety of languages. No prior knowledge of morphology is required.
Textbook: Booij, Geert. 2007. The grammar of words: An introduction to linguistic morphology (second edition). Oxford University Press.
Grading:
Class discussion (30%)
Presentation on any morphological topic (20%) [due April 15]
Final paper (50%) [due June 17, 5 pm, in NZ's mailbox]
Students will also give an ungraded presentation of the final paper research near the end of the semester.
Some other books on morphology:
Aronoff, Mark, and Kirsten Fudeman. 2005. What is morphology? Blackwell.
Carstairs-McCarthy, Andrew. 1992. Current morphology. Routledge.
Haspelmath, Martin. 2002. Understanding morphology. Arnold.
Jarema, Gonia, and Gary Libben (eds) 2007. The mental lexicon: Core perspectives. Elsevier.
Katamba, Francis (ed.) 2003. Morphology: Critical concepts in linguistics. Routledge.
Katamba, Francis, and John Stonham. 2006. Morphology (2nd ed). Palgrave.
Matthews, P. H. 1991. Morphology. Cambridge University Press.
Packard, Jerome L. 2000. The morphology of Chinese: A linguistic and cognitive approach. Cambridge.
Packard, Jerome L. (ed) 1997. New approaches to Chinese word formation. Mouton.
Spencer, Andrew. 1991. Morphological theory. Blackwell.
Spencer, Andrew, and Arnold M. Zwicky. 1998. The handbook of morphology. Blackwell.
潘文國，葉步青，韓洋（1993）漢語的構詞法研究。臺灣學生書局。
Schedule:
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Week |
Teacher |
Topic/Activity |
Readings |
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2.19 |
JM & NZ |
Introduction to the class |
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2.26 |
NZ |
Basic notions in morphology |
Booij ch. 1 |
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3.4 |
NZ |
Morphological analysis |
Booij ch. 2 |
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3.11 |
JM |
Derivation |
Booij ch. 3 |
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3.18 |
JM |
Compounding |
Booij ch. 4 |
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3.25 |
NZ |
Inflection |
Booij ch. 5 |
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4.1 |
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NO CLASS [spring break] |
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4.8 |
NZ |
Inflectional systems |
Booij ch. 6 |
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4.15 |
JM |
Morphology and phonology |
Booij ch. 7 |
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4.22 |
JM & NZ |
Open-topic presentations |
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4.29 |
NZ |
Morphology and syntax |
Booij ch. 8 |
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5.6 |
NZ |
Morphology and semantics |
Booij ch. 9 |
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5.13 |
JM |
Morphology and psycholinguistics |
Booij ch. 10 |
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5.20 |
JM |
Morphology and language change |
Booij ch. 11 |
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5.27 |
JM |
The word |
Booij ch. 12 |
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6.3 |
JM & NZ |
Final presentations |
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6.10 |
JM & NZ |
Final presentations [last class] |
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6.17 |
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PAPER DUE |
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